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{{maxim|Everyone has a contract until they get punched in the mouth}} | |||
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JC, being given to making up social science on the hoof, is working on a theory that when you buy the services of a commercial law firm — and, specifically, when you buy them to make [[contract]]s for you — you are not buying the words, or even the underlying legal content that the words express, but a more general beatific ''peace of mind'' that comes from hiring ''serious people''. You don’t ''need'' to understand their words or concepts, because someone else has done that for you and they have, by their simple presence, intimated — but to be clear, they havenʼt ''told'' you — that ''everything will be okay''. | JC, being given to making up social science on the hoof, is working on a theory that when you buy the services of a commercial law firm — and, specifically, when you buy them to make [[contract]]s for you — you are not buying the words, or even the underlying legal content that the words express, but a more general beatific ''peace of mind'' that comes from hiring ''serious people''. You don’t ''need'' to understand their words or concepts, because someone else has done that for you and they have, by their simple presence, intimated — but to be clear, they havenʼt ''told'' you — that ''everything will be okay''. | ||