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The burden of proof, so the philosophers say, is on {{sex|she}} who makes the existential claim. If, as so many [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] are, you find discomfort in silence, you can always slip in a disclaimer. | |||
Nothing gladdens an attorney’s heart more than an artfully penned disclaimer. Where a client will see that page of tightly margined eight-point font at the back of his PowerPoint as a mere texture, the same tract, to a commercial lawyer, represents a power, beauty, and precision impossible to articulate to the laity. A good disclaimer will cantilever itself off the page and into three-dimensions, and to a practiced eye will arc gracefully into an imagined geometries of space-time. | Nothing gladdens an attorney’s heart more than an artfully penned disclaimer. Where a client will see that page of tightly margined eight-point font at the back of his PowerPoint as a mere texture, the same tract, to a commercial lawyer, represents a power, beauty, and precision impossible to articulate to the laity. A good disclaimer will cantilever itself off the page and into three-dimensions, and to a practiced eye will arc gracefully into an imagined geometries of space-time. | ||
The disclaimer gets to the heart of the contemporary legal disposition. Understanding its pathology is to slip the deadbolt on the door to your counsel’s mind. <ref>The door does not revolve, though: once you cross that threshold there is no way back. It is one of the many [[Schwarzschild radii]] of the law</ref> | The disclaimer gets to the heart of the contemporary legal disposition. Understanding its pathology is to slip the deadbolt on the door to your counsel’s mind. <ref>The door does not revolve, though: once you cross that threshold there is no way back. It is one of the many [[Schwarzschild radii]] of the law</ref> | ||