Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 531610)

I don't have problems focusing at home. Rather, it's concentrated work without interruption except from the lap cat or occasional squirrel at the door. I do have a problem focusing at work because the "interaction" is just 70 IQ lawyers coming into my office to ask stupid fucking questions that any idiot who knew how to google could figure out. The smart productive people know how to get shit done, whether it is in an office, on the shitter, or on a plane. The other ones are the ones who need babysitting, coaching, whatever. Fuck those sods.

For me, "in-office interaction" is a one-way flow of ideas from me to other limp-dick motherfuckers.

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 531608)

Three in a row!

Our tech transfer/sponsored projects people are SUPER busy right now, and I've been doing a ton of data deals to the point we're developing new processes for getting those done quickly. Our campus is pretty closed, except for the clinical folk, right now.

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 531610)

For me, "in-office interaction" is a one-way flow of ideas from me to other limp-dick motherfuckers.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 531615)

The tech transfer folks I deal with are very busy, but part of it is the presence of a lot of deals that are just plain weird. Licensees with complex structures, people positioning themselves for SPAC funding, licensees doing restructuring in connection with an investment. It may be these are just the things I see, but there is a lot of drawing outside the lines going on right now, more than usual, and that just eats up time. I did a little presentation on SPACs and complex structures as a favor to one institution to try to help them get more control of it and had people pinging me about their deals in the middle of the presentation.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 531614)

I'm actually a smart productive person. But I'm also old so I work better with paper files than over a computer. Those are in my office.

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 531618)

Wow. Seeing what other people have done with a law degree makes me see how little I have done.

That's like calculus and my place is single-digit numeral arithmetic.

It's hard to believe that my place has literally made _Billions_ from claiming companies didn't warn about dangers from a product that caused disease in one in a million people, while doing jack shit to prevent the spread of a disease that affected nearly one in ten and killed nearly 2% of the people that had it.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 531615)

The tech transfer folks I deal with are very busy, but part of it is the presence of a lot of deals that are just plain weird. Licensees with complex structures, people positioning themselves for SPAC funding, licensees doing restructuring in connection with an investment. It may be these are just the things I see, but there is a lot of drawing outside the lines going on right now, more than usual, and that just eats up time. I did a little presentation on SPACs and complex structures as a favor to one institution to try to help them get more control of it and had people pinging me about their deals in the middle of the presentation.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 531621)

My client base is heavily companies with in-house IP staffing. They send out little agreement work. They like agreement work. Honestly I don't get that. I really don't like agreement work, but I know it must be me, because my clients all hog it up- they love it.

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 531618)

Wow. Seeing what other people have done with a law degree makes me see how little I have done.

That's like calculus and my place is single-digit numeral arithmetic.

It's hard to believe that my place has literally made _Billions_ from claiming companies didn't warn about dangers from a product that caused disease in one in a million people, while doing jack shit to prevent the spread of a disease that affected nearly one in ten and killed nearly 2% of the people that had it.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 531623)

Like the whole SPAC craze sounds really sexy and sophisticated, but it is, fundamentally, all about selling people on vapor. They all have no business at all, just a plan to buy one.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 531624)

Unless you're a late-stage company looking for options.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 531625)

Yes, the snake-oil salespeople now have a lot of money and need to do something with it. That is going to keep a lot of us busy for a while.

The key is to make sure you end up either with the cash or in control when the dust settles, because most of the folks putting these together know a lot more about how to separate people from their money than how to run a company.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 531626)

It's crazy, but then I spent far more time than I would have preferred in Fort Wayne, IN doing an "independent" investigation on behalf of the board of a too-hastily cobbled together and taken public company a long time ago. Hard to believe that isn't in the cards for a good number of these SPAC. A lot of private companies just do not have the controls they need to suddenly become public.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 531627)

I spent 1 weekend in Fort Wayne. That was more than I preferred.