Red Lines

I had a negotiation a while ago which very nearly derailed itself. I keep thinking back to what happened and what it tells me as a lawyer and a person. As lawyers, we’re usually advocating other people’s views. Our business is representing other people’s business, but sometimes it can be hard to keep track. This was the settlement stage of a long-running dispute. The contract had gone back and forth several times, resulting in layered redline. ⊕ However a case begins, almost all of them end with drafting tw