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*'''Timeliness of brief''': After an indolent day of inactivity, how reliably does the team sync to the magical 6pm deadline before dropping a “drafts required by open of business tomorrow so help me” instruction on their [[Private practice lawyer|external advisors]]? | *'''Timeliness of brief''': After an indolent day of inactivity, how reliably does the team sync to the magical 6pm deadline before dropping a “drafts required by open of business tomorrow so help me” instruction on their [[Private practice lawyer|external advisors]]? | ||
*'''Inexplicable delay''': For how many weeks does the team leaves drafts — whose immediate turnaround, it said, was a matter of life and death, and to accommodate which, the [[Private practice lawyer|external team]] rearranged long-standing plans for the theatre, to celebrate wedding anniversaries and so on — before deigning to look at them? | *'''Inexplicable delay''': For how many weeks does the team leaves drafts — whose immediate turnaround, it said, was a matter of life and death, and to accommodate which, the [[Private practice lawyer|external team]] rearranged long-standing plans for the theatre, to celebrate wedding anniversaries and so on — before deigning to look at them? | ||
*''' | *'''Yes, but can I speak to a partner please?''' How disdainful, on average, is the team to the [[Private practice lawyer|junior-most lawyer on the external team]] should {{sex|she}} try to answer uninformed questions about a document {{sex|he}} has just spent sixteen hours preparing? | ||
*'''[[Red-herring ninja]]dom''': How comprehensive is the team’s knowledge of the punctuation, typography, weight, leading and style of the firm’s legal name wherever it appears in a [[prospectus]]? | *'''[[Red-herring ninja]]dom''': How comprehensive is the team’s knowledge of the punctuation, typography, weight, leading and style of the firm’s legal name wherever it appears in a [[prospectus]]? | ||
*'''Mark-up pedantry''': Beyond the inherent pedantry of the [[red-herring ninja]], how brazenly superficial are the team’s amendments to perfectly sound legal drafting? Additional points for refusing to hear of modifications to your own mangled syntax;<ref>{{Bold full stop}}</ref> | *'''Mark-up pedantry''': Beyond the inherent pedantry of the [[red-herring ninja]], how brazenly superficial are the team’s amendments to perfectly sound legal drafting? Additional points for refusing to hear of modifications to your own mangled syntax;<ref>{{Bold full stop}}</ref> | ||