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HOW TO LIE WELL?

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You miss the point. CYA letters and "memos to file" are for when someone ELSE tells you to do something wrong and you want backup to show that your partner is the actual idiot.

Or, when the client is stupid and blows off an issue that you've warned him will blow up in his face as "a picky lawyer point we don't want to waste time negotiating with these guys" - those are the ones that end "The client then informed me that he was willing to accept that business risk and expressly instructed me to spend no further time researching or attempting to redraft to circumvent the issue."

Having had one of our litigators bring such a memo to me 3-4 years later laughing his ass off, I have realized that most litigators have no clue how document & deal negotiations work in practice; they seem to think the corp lawyers who draft these things (with weird language that doesn't quite work and odd gaps in them) are all idiots.

Disco Stu never lies

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
It's all in the details. Have you heard the story about 2 college kids who went out the night before their (insert name of class) final, hooked up with some subile spinning hippy chicks and other recreational substances etc. etc. and missed the final.

They went to the Prof with a story about getting a flat tire in East Podunkville and being stuck for hours. This was before the days of cell phones.

The Prof allows them to retake the final. When they show up for the test, he puts them in seperate classrooms. There is one question on the test. "Which tire?"

That prof still teaches at Duke.

Disco Stu never lies

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We totally got screwed on that one.

But it was worth it.

HOW TO LAY WELL?

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
This reminds, I thought there were two points to yesterday's poll -- wasn't it not just the most inappropriate things a professor did to you, but also the most inappropriate thing a BOSS has done to you?

Anyone?

A week after September 11, 2001, the weekly staff meeting was held. This was the first time everyone in the office had the chance to actually talk about what had happened and share stories. It was still very a very raw and emotional time, and we were all glad to be in the same room with one another and really have a chance to talk. Boss walks in, says something about how sad it was and that we all had better stop procrastinating and using 9/11 as an excuse for not working. He lectured us for 20 minutes and then the meeting was over.

Six weeks later, the mass resignation started. I called a headhunter immediately after the meeting. So did two other attorneys in our group, and as far as I know my former boss is the only person still at the firm who was at that staff meeting.