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It is not the customerʼs business. It is ''lawyerʼs ''business''.'' | It is not the customerʼs business. It is ''lawyerʼs ''business''.'' | ||
====Reader feedback ==== | |||
This seems to have struck a chord. With readers. {{plainlink|https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmoorhead|Professor Moorhead}} recommends Gulati and Scott’s ''{{plainlink|https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo14365624.html|The Three and a Half Minute Transaction}}'' for similar anecdotes about associates with no idea of the provenance or meaning of apparently vital, inviolate terms. This has been a feature of JCʼs solitary inhouse crusade: | |||
{{quote |''SCENE: A room in the [[legal department]]. Filled with reforming zeal, JC encounters a bizzare term in a standard form. He enquires of the responsible lawyer, an uninquisitive veteran of ten or more years: | |||
{{script|JC}}: What does this do?<br> | |||
{{script|Legal eagle}}: Donʼt know.<br> | |||
{{script|JC}}: What does it even mean?<br> | |||
{{script|Legal eagle}}: Donʼt know.<br> | |||
{{script|JC}}: Can we take it out?<br> | |||
{{script|Legal eagle}}: [''horrified''] Absolutely not. [[Chip]] put that in.<br> | |||
{{script|JC}}: Who is [[Chip]]?<br> | |||
{{script|Legal eagle}}: Donʼt know. | |||
''NARRATOR: Chip was the GC, three GCs ago. He left before the merger. Which happened in 1998.'' | |||
Exeunt}} |