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''That’s what lawyers do. [[It is not in my nature|It is in our nature]]''. | ''That’s what lawyers do. [[It is not in my nature|It is in our nature]]''. | ||
Yet, yet yet: many painful artefacts of the analogue era — the gremlins and hair-balls you would expect [[technology]] to remove — ''persist''. To this day, we ''still'' have [[side letter]]s and [[amendment agreement]]s. We ''still'' write: “[[this page is intentionally left blank]]”. We ''still'' say “[[this clause is reserved]]”, as if we haven’t noticed [[Microsoft Word]] has an automatic numbering system.<ref>It is a truth universally acknowledged that no [[lawyer]] on God’s earth can competently format a document in [[Microsoft Word]].</ref> Not only has [[reg tech|regtech]] ''failed'' to remove legacy [[Complication|complications]], ''it has created entirely new ones.'' | Yet, yet yet: many painful artefacts of the analogue era — the gremlins and hair-balls you would expect [[technology]] to remove — ''persist''. To this day, we ''still'' have [[side letter]]s and [[amendment agreement]]s. We ''still'' write: “[[this page is intentionally left blank]]”. We — well, our [[US Attorney|American]] friends, at any rate — ''still'' say “[[this clause is reserved]]”, as if we haven’t noticed [[Microsoft Word]] has an automatic numbering system.<ref>It is a truth universally acknowledged that no [[lawyer]] on God’s earth can competently format a document in [[Microsoft Word]].</ref> Not only has [[reg tech|regtech]] ''failed'' to remove legacy [[Complication|complications]], ''it has created entirely new ones.'' | ||
*Are there any fewer lawyers today? No.<ref>There are more than ever: [https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/warning-as-number-of-solicitors-tops-140000/5063349.article The number of practising solicitors in England and Wales has reached another all-time high] — ''Law Gazette''.</ref> | *Are there any fewer lawyers today? No.<ref>There are more than ever: [https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/warning-as-number-of-solicitors-tops-140000/5063349.article The number of practising solicitors in England and Wales has reached another all-time high] — ''Law Gazette''.</ref> |