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 In the same way that forward lines thrust and counterthrust, the trenches in a negotiation move back and forth. The wranglers of these textual monoliths are an educated elite, so an [[emergent]] wisdom settles upon the project whose net effect — even if we cannot fathom how or why — is the principals’ comforting conviction that everything will generally be ''okay''.
-On this view, legal writing is designed to just occupy space. It is like that expanding polystyrene stuff they spray inside internal partition walls for soundproofing.
+It calls not for craft, elegance, design or architectural panache, for clear expression of commercial intention is not the point : that is for the principals, it lives its life through their every interaction. Those who do not understand each other will not be in business for long.
-There is just no craft, no elegance, no design, no architectural panache, no basic economy. It is just this tortured, brutalised, monstrous torrent of dreck, from end to end.
+For that is the magnificent horror of the attorney work product: it is hard to do business with it, but impossible without it: it is a ticket to ride, but your enduring hope when you board the train is that you will not need to show it to anyone; that you can ride to your destination without an inspector.
-These people are wizards of language, after all. They could deliver beautiful, clear, elegant product. That they don’t is a kind of final triumph of form over substance.
+On this view, legal prose just occupies space. It is, a trace: a, calling card, a curled little pavement offering that says ''a lawyer was here''. It is not the customerʼs business. It is ''lawyerʼs ''business''.
-For that is the terrifying magnificence of the attorney work product: you can’t do without it: it is a kind of ticket to ride, but your enduring hope when you board the train is that you will not need to show it to anyone; that you can ride to your destination without an inspector.