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And here, in the new world, we find wondrous new applications. We even have a [[law firm]], those collective sparrows of finance, [[Simmons + Simmons]], who stumbled upon the idea but [[Simmons TOBS offensive|executed it so badly]] that, far from solving the problem of negotiating [[tedious]] [[Contract|contracts]], they made it worse.<ref>See the [[Simmons TOBs offensive]]</ref> Let the [[legal starling]]s for ever be [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] to the JC’s [[Charles Darwin|Charlie Darwin]]. | And here, in the new world, we find wondrous new applications. We even have a [[law firm]], those collective sparrows of finance, [[Simmons + Simmons]], who stumbled upon the idea but [[Simmons TOBS offensive|executed it so badly]] that, far from solving the problem of negotiating [[tedious]] [[Contract|contracts]], they made it worse.<ref>See the [[Simmons TOBs offensive]]</ref> Let the [[legal starling]]s for ever be [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] to the JC’s [[Charles Darwin|Charlie Darwin]]. | ||
Here’s the idea — free to | Here’s the idea — free to you, but give the [[JC]] a knowing wink in your [[Awards|acceptance speech]], okay? | ||
Take a common, but unstandardised [[contract]], that [[legal eagle]]s are in the habit of sending each other on the premise that it manages a risk that can, and really ought to, go without saying. In [[Simmons]]’ case it is the [[terms of business]]; let us take that [[iatrogenic]] staple the [[confidentiality agreement]]. | |||
Let us say you are about to embark on a “[[project]]” with one of your clients. The project is simple, workaday, its [[purpose]] easily articulated, and it carries an appreciable, but containable, risk of harm — mainly embarrassment, if we are honest<ref>The notion that much of what passes between the legal departments of modern financial institutions is clever, much less [[proprietary]] or sensitive, is one of the great [[canard|canards]] of our age.</ref> — should information passing between the participants in pursuit of it be treated without care. | Let us say you are about to embark on a “[[project]]” with one of your clients. The project is simple, workaday, its [[purpose]] easily articulated, and it carries an appreciable, but containable, risk of harm — mainly embarrassment, if we are honest<ref>The notion that much of what passes between the legal departments of modern financial institutions is clever, much less [[proprietary]] or sensitive, is one of the great [[canard|canards]] of our age.</ref> — should information passing between the participants in pursuit of it be treated without care. | ||