Thursday, October 13, 2005

Lawyers are people too

An attorney just sent this email around to the firm...

Please let me know if you collect model trains or other scale models and have the accompanying instructions/warnings. We are advising a Japanese manufacturer in the design of its instructions for equipment scale models. I appreciate any assistance.

I'm guessing he wants to copy the warning labels off of other scale models, slightly modify, and bill the client hundreds of dollars an hour. I've heard that's how many legal documents are generated, from a template. Wills, for example, are generated by a poorly paid typist in the bowels of the firm's Resource Center using a firm template. They probably use a template from one of those "1000 Legal Documents!" CDs you can buy at Wal-Mart for 10 bucks.

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