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 It is not the customerʼs business. It is ''lawyerʼs ''business''.''
+====Reader feedback ====
+This seems to have struck a chord. With readers. Mr Moorhead recommends Gulati and Scott’s ''Three and a half minute contract'' for similar anecdotes about associates having no idea of the provenance or meaning of apparently vital, inviolate terms has been a feature of JCʼs solitary inhouse crusade.
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+''Filled with reforming zeal, JC encounters bizzare term in standard form. He enquires of the responsible desk lawyer:
+{{script|JC}}: “What does this do?”
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: “Donʼt know.”
+{{script|JC}}: “What does it even mean?”
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: “Donʼt know.”
+{{script|JC}}: “Can we take it out?”
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: [''horrified''] “Absolutely not. Chip put that in. ”
+{{script|JC}}: “Who is Chip?”
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: “Donʼt know. Oh hang on. He might have been the GC, I think.”
+{{script|JC}}: “When?”
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: “He left before the merger [''which happened in 1998''].”}}