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===Inhouse lawyers and the fear of the weeds=== | ===Inhouse lawyers and the fear of the weeds=== | ||
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, | 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, the way wasps succumb to honey. To insist on dwelling among the arcane legal details — the “weeds” — is the mark of the unpromotable laggard. The [[JC]] is one of those. | ||
“JC, if you want to progress in this firm, you must ''get out of the weeds''. You know, and ''manage''.” | A popular means of career progression for inhouse lawyers — some would say the only means — is to avoid this fate by converting into ''managers''. | ||
The JC was once told, “JC, if you want to progress in this firm, you must ''get out of the weeds''. You know, and ''manage''.” | |||
“Manage? like as in ''middle'' management?” | “Manage? like as in ''middle'' management?” | ||
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“Yes! That’s just it! Admin! Sit on committees! Prepare management information and statistics!” | “Yes! That’s just it! Admin! Sit on committees! Prepare management information and statistics!” | ||
But this is, surely, like buying a cricket bat and using it to play tennis. The JC has no data beyond anecdote to support this assertion, but he still feels it strongly: most people in the world who spend the five or more years it commonly takes to qualify as a lawyer do so ''because they want to practice law''. They do not ''want'' to be middle managers. ''Anyone'' can be a middle manager. | |||
It requires little acumen to manage. In fact, it seems to require a lack of it. Middle management works even better when it isn’t undertaken at all. In any case, if you want someone to do some middle management, hire a middle manager. | |||
On that day, the JC commended his soul into the weed-strewn honey. | |||
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*[[Deep dive]] | *[[Deep dive]] | ||