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The focus has always been analysing, explaining, simplifying, demystifying and ''contextualising'' — the commercial context the most important of all since that is the aspect most often lost on newcomers (and, frankly, old hands) in these highly specialised products. | The focus has always been analysing, explaining, simplifying, demystifying and ''contextualising'' — the commercial context the most important of all since that is the aspect most often lost on newcomers (and, frankly, old hands) in these highly specialised products. | ||
The tone is idiosyncratic and | The tone is idiosyncratic and defiantly non-corporate. It will stay that way. From the start, creating the JC had to be not just easy, but ''fun'': there was no way I could have stuck at it if it was a drag. It turned out to be quite the outlet for the frustrated writer. | ||
And, Lord only knows, there is much that is absurd about our modern corporate life and the people who populate the landscape of the financial markets | And, Lord only knows, there is much that is absurd about our modern corporate life and the people who populate the landscape of the financial markets which asks for satire, and precious few who are inclined publicly to provide it, so the JC found a niche. | ||
All of this with a day-job. Mind you, the JC has largely been how I have managed to ''do'' a day job since I started it — lawyers gravely undervalue [[knowledge management]], even though it should be the most important thing they do. Nevertheless I owe a debt of gratitude to a sequence of employers over the last decade and a half for letting me carry on with it. They know who they are. | All of this with a day-job. Mind you, the JC has largely been how I have managed to ''do'' a day job since I started it — lawyers gravely undervalue [[knowledge management]], even though it should be the most important thing they do. Nevertheless, I owe a debt of gratitude to a sequence of employers over the last decade and a half for letting me carry on with it. They know who they are. | ||
===Where it’s at=== | ===Where it’s at=== | ||
Broadly the JC splits down three ways: | Broadly the JC splits down three ways: | ||
'''Waggery''': Basic waggishness for the sake of it — Toto chat, Otto {{Buchstein}} and [[Opco Boone]] nonsense. This has little value to anyone but me, and will stay free. If you enjoy it, great! | '''Waggery''': Basic waggishness for the sake of it — [[Toto]] chat, Otto {{Buchstein}} and [[Opco Boone]] nonsense. This has little value to anyone but me, and will stay free. If you enjoy it, great! | ||
'''Noble amateurism''': Substantive content about things I am ''not'' expert in, but which I’ve read about in my travels and which I thought are tangential to legal practice and office life: [[middle management|business management]], [[complexity]], [[systems theory]], [[behavioural psychology]], [[normal accidents|organisational sociology]] and so on. Much of this is in the form of summaries, book reviews and (often ham-fisted) longer essays which synthesize this learning into things I have found useful for modern life and career management. This material will also, for the time being, be on the free site. | '''Noble amateurism''': Substantive content about things I am ''not'' expert in, but which I’ve read about in my travels and which I thought are tangential to legal practice and office life: [[middle management|business management]], [[complexity]], [[systems theory]], [[behavioural psychology]], [[normal accidents|organisational sociology]] and so on. Much of this is in the form of summaries, book reviews and (often ham-fisted) longer essays which synthesize this learning into things I have found useful for modern life and career management. This material will also, for the time being, be on the free site. | ||
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'''Legal stuff''': Detailed legal documentation “[[anatomies]]”. These include hyperlinked versions of canonical legal terms, the JC’s own {{nutshell}} summaries of those terms, comparisons and in-depth discussion and analysis of common practical, commercial and legal issues. Also, longer (also often ham-fisted) essays on market history, market dislocations and catastrophic events, and how regulators and banking institutions have reacted to them or, in the JC’s unsolicited opinion, ''should'' have. This material draws on 30 year “school of life” experience as a practising lawyer in the international financial markets. This will make up the bulk of the premium content. | '''Legal stuff''': Detailed legal documentation “[[anatomies]]”. These include hyperlinked versions of canonical legal terms, the JC’s own {{nutshell}} summaries of those terms, comparisons and in-depth discussion and analysis of common practical, commercial and legal issues. Also, longer (also often ham-fisted) essays on market history, market dislocations and catastrophic events, and how regulators and banking institutions have reacted to them or, in the JC’s unsolicited opinion, ''should'' have. This material draws on 30 year “school of life” experience as a practising lawyer in the international financial markets. This will make up the bulk of the premium content. | ||
It shouldn’t need to be said but, let’s say it: this is an information resource and [[Disclaimer|not specific legal advice]]. Any reader uses it at {{sex|her}} own risk. These are strong opinions weakly held: they are personal, idiosyncratic, impatient, polemical and, surprise surprise, ''contrarian''. A good portion of them are probably ''wrong''. Like its author’s mind, it is also prone to | It shouldn’t need to be said but, let’s say it: this is an information resource and [[Disclaimer|not specific legal advice]]. Any reader uses it at {{sex|her}} own risk. These are strong opinions weakly held: they are personal, idiosyncratic, impatient, polemical and, surprise surprise, ''contrarian''. A good portion of them are probably ''wrong''. Like its author’s mind, it is also prone to impulsive change, without warning or notice. Like life, everything is provisional. | ||
This material is, in other words, for discussion between peers. It is no tablet from Mount Sinai. It is meant for people who are engaged in specialist negotiation and advisory capacities, who will already have a basic technical grounding in these disciplines and who are experienced and sceptical enough to disagree with it. The [[JC]] makes no apologies for sticking two fingers up at conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is welcome to stick two fingers right back up at the JC, and often does. | This material is, in other words, for discussion between peers. It is no tablet from Mount Sinai. It is meant for people who are engaged in specialist negotiation and advisory capacities, who will already have a basic technical grounding in these disciplines and who are experienced and sceptical enough to disagree with it. The [[JC]] makes no apologies for sticking two fingers up at conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is welcome to stick two fingers right back up at the JC, and often does. | ||