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{{a|negotiation|[[File:Or any part thereof.png|thumb|510px|right|Stick ''that'' in your pipe and smoke it, [[Counselor]]]]}}A [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer’s]] stock-in-trade, her currency, the oxygen that gives her daily routine meaning and her role physical substance. For what is she if not her comments?
{{a|negotiation|{{image|Or any part thereof|png|Stick ''that'' in your pipe and smoke it, [[Counselor]]}}}}A [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer’s]] stock-in-trade, her currency, the oxygen that gives her daily routine meaning and her role physical substance. For what is she if not her comments?


''[[Ego sum id quod dico]]'' - ''[[Si quaeris causidicum loqui, locutus est tibi]]''
''[[Ego sum id quod dico]]'' - ''[[Si quaeris causidicum loqui, locutus est tibi]]''


If you ask a lawyer for [[comments]], she will give you some, whether your draft needed them or not. This is a founding crux of the [[anal paradox]]. For a mark-up proves your lawyer has read the agreement, considered its content, and justified her fee. It’s in her nature. It is what she does.
If you ask a lawyer for [[comments]], she will give you some, whether your draft needed them or not. This is a founding crux of the [[anal paradox]]. For a [[mark-up]] proves your lawyer has read the agreement, considered its content, and justified her fee. ''It Is in her nature''. It is what she does.


No text is immune from adjustment, and if your only objective is to show you've read it, slipping in a harmless “[[for the avoidance of doubt]]”, a “[[without limitation]]”, an “[[as the case may be]]” or — though on a fraught negotiation this is pushing it, be warned — an “[[(if any)]]” is a professionally satisfying but yet non-invasive way of achieving that.
No text is immune from adjustment, and if your only objective is to show you've read it, slipping in a harmless “[[for the avoidance of doubt]]”, a “[[without limitation]]”, an “[[as the case may be]]” or — though on a fraught negotiation this is pushing it, be warned — an “[[(if any)]]” is a professionally satisfying but yet non-invasive way of achieving that.