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Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Even if you're working on deals that are custom made for a financial, regulatory and/or tax play, some aspects of these deals are customary. People also make analogies to other types of deals where something is or isn't customary.
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Of course (or I'd waste even more time than I do reinventing the wheel). But analogies do not constitute binding precedent, so some guy bellowing "never in my years of practice have I seen something like this suggested much less conceded it" just comes off as unimaginative (and probably out of date). You just want to ask "so, do you have any issues with the substance of the provision, or do you just not understand it because it isn't in your form book?"
Biggest asshole lawyers I've dealt with so far were in Dublin (multiple firms, multiple practice areas). Go figure. Charlotte NC is up there in the asshole quotient, in my experience, as is LA - but I've only dealt with the big LA firms, really, and big firms just breed & protect assholes more than midsize or smaller firms.
Surprisingly (to me), the most incompetent lawyers I've dealt with have been in London - but it has just been one (big) firm repeatedly demonstrating incompetence. I've dealt with a bunch of night-school Staten Island solo-prac ESL lawyers who do better than those guys.
