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.
