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Sometimes their chicks find these nests so comforting that many spend their entire lives feasting on the rich biodiversity they find there. | Sometimes their chicks find these nests so comforting that many spend their entire lives feasting on the rich biodiversity they find there. | ||
But there are weeds — honestly, no-one cares less whether the [[indemnity]] in a custody agreement carves out [[gross negligence]] or not, and the sooner one realises this the happier one’s life will be — and there are | But there are weeds — honestly, no-one cares less whether the [[indemnity]] in a custody agreement carves out [[gross negligence]] or not, and the sooner one realises this the happier one’s life will be — and there are “weeds”. | ||
On one view, a lawyer’s descent into ''any'' kind of legal analysis, however fundamental, is a descent into the “weeds”. One sees this attitude most commonly articulated amongst [[inhouse lawyers]]. | |||
===Inhouse lawyers and the fear of the weeds=== | ===Inhouse lawyers and the fear of the weeds=== | ||
The legal department in | The [[legal department]] in any commercial organisation is a place of entropic stasis. People go there to die. They eventually get crushed under the weight of of tedium, they way wasps succumb to honey. A popular means of career progression for inhouse lawyers — some would say the only means — is to avoid this fate by convert themselves into ''managers''. To insist on dwelling among the arcane legal details — the weeds — is the mark of the unpromotable laggard. The [[JC]] is one of those. He was once told, | ||
“JC, if you want to progress in this firm, you must ''get out of the weeds''. You know, and ''manage''.” | “JC, if you want to progress in this firm, you must ''get out of the weeds''. You know, and ''manage''.” | ||