Minor work thoughts
Mar. 26th, 2007 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularThe more I work as a lawyer, the more I'm convinced that a vast majority of the stress in a lawyer's life comes from the clients. Which is about equivalent to saying that being a doctor would be a great profession if it weren't for the patients.
Not to get into particulars, but last summer, I was tasked to tweak a proposed agreement between two corporations, one which we at the law firm worried had the potential for disaster written all over it. I tweaked, and I put in protections and escape clauses, all of which were stripped out despite the efforts of myself and my superiors at the firm. I left for New York hopeful that I'd protected the interests of the firm's client in the matter.
I came back to Athens, and I discovered that the proposed agreement had become an actual agreement, with the client's signature on it, and that now the client wants the firm to find a way out of the agreement. Unfortunately, the only ways out are dependent on a couple of regulatory agencies. (Translation: we're probably frakked. Or rather, the client's on the hook, and the firm's in the doghouse for not preventing it from happening.)
*sigh*
I have to return to New York in less than a month. And when I return is entirely dependent on another set of bureaucrats. And I have no faith that things will turn out for the best.
Not to get into particulars, but last summer, I was tasked to tweak a proposed agreement between two corporations, one which we at the law firm worried had the potential for disaster written all over it. I tweaked, and I put in protections and escape clauses, all of which were stripped out despite the efforts of myself and my superiors at the firm. I left for New York hopeful that I'd protected the interests of the firm's client in the matter.
I came back to Athens, and I discovered that the proposed agreement had become an actual agreement, with the client's signature on it, and that now the client wants the firm to find a way out of the agreement. Unfortunately, the only ways out are dependent on a couple of regulatory agencies. (Translation: we're probably frakked. Or rather, the client's on the hook, and the firm's in the doghouse for not preventing it from happening.)
*sigh*
I have to return to New York in less than a month. And when I return is entirely dependent on another set of bureaucrats. And I have no faith that things will turn out for the best.
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Date: 2007-03-26 01:41 pm (UTC)or - as I have often said - how much more fabulous being an indexer would be if I didn't have to deal with authors and/editors. :-)
Clients
Date: 2007-03-28 03:10 pm (UTC)Clients are evil. A necessary evil: nut, evil none the less. Particularly the 'I know that's what I told you to do: but, it's not what I wanted' variety. This is the commercial equivalent of 'I love you. You're perfect. Now change.'
The only upside is that you get to add on the billable hours to change the product.
Learn to smile and take copious notes. For they will be back to question the additional hours on the bill.