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Obviously, we can agree ''in general'' that legal documents should be shorter, clearer and better, but ''[[legal eagles]] don’t deal in generalities''. They deal in particulars. Lots of beautiful, tiny, glimmering, bejeweled, [[special case]]s. Managing risk on a “portfolio” basis – which is surely what all [[financial services]] organisations must do – comes very hard to one trained in the [[common law]]. | Obviously, we can agree ''in general'' that legal documents should be shorter, clearer and better, but ''[[legal eagles]] don’t deal in generalities''. They deal in particulars. Lots of beautiful, tiny, glimmering, bejeweled, [[special case]]s. Managing risk on a “portfolio” basis – which is surely what all [[financial services]] organisations must do – comes very hard to one trained in the [[common law]]. | ||
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