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 In any case, structurers tend to obsess about legal details, to the exasperation of those in [[legal]] whose job it actually is to obsess about this. Observe the effect this has on legal product: when two factions in the same camp are trying to outdo each other’s pedantry before the other side has even had a look, there is scant hope that the document will avoid disaster: it was this kind of internal arms race, after all, that led to the CDO cubed.
-There are fewer structurers around these days, and they’re a chastened lot.
+[[Structurer]]s will not advance their odd relationship with the legal department should, in their excitement with their new life, stray into overfamiliarity with former colleagues still consigned to the old one. For example the following, when uttered by a newly-migrated [[structurer]] who, a few short days ago, worked, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and was himself a beloved member of the legal team, is apt to “take the biscuit”:
+:“Hi [[Legal Eagles]]!!
+:Can you turn around this [[tsht]] for me by [[COB]]?
+:[[Thx]]”
+Should he continue in this vein young sir will, with indecent speed, find himself quite unbelovèd by his ''alma mater''. Those who remain will regard him with the fondness surviving members of MI6 — the ones who weren’t betrayed and murdered by a filthy double-crosser — have for Kim Philby. Their humour will ''not'' be improved by being addressed as “[[legal eagle]]s”.
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