Date: April 12, 2013 Topic: The Shrinking ... - Georgetown Law
Date: April 12, 2013 Topic: The Shrinking ... - Georgetown Law
Date: April 12, 2013 Topic: The Shrinking ... - Georgetown Law
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with negative<br />
social<br />
consequences<br />
KMS reduces<br />
amount of<br />
workplace<br />
collaboration,<br />
with negative<br />
work-quality<br />
consequences<br />
Interviewer: How can you tell?<br />
Informant: <strong>The</strong> juniors with whom I work told me ‘everyone reuses this and<br />
that.’<br />
Interviewer: And how do you feel about being such a popular author? Does<br />
it bring you satisfaction or displeasure?<br />
Informant: Sadness.<br />
Interviewer: Really? Sadness? Why?<br />
Informant: Because the least they could do is come and see me instead of<br />
plainly reusing my stuff.<br />
Informant: When you read a textbook on a specialized subject of law, if<br />
things are not explained well, you don’t fully understand what’s going on.<br />
So imagine how difficult it is for a Philistine who wants to reuse my<br />
opinion letters without prior knowledge of laws and regulations on financial<br />
activities! My consultations aren’t textbooks. <strong>The</strong>y are elliptical. <strong>The</strong>y deal<br />
with specific and practical client problems. I go straight to the point and<br />
don’t mention things that are known by both my client and me. People who<br />
download my memos and try to reuse them without understanding the<br />
subject and the context of the engagement… I mean that’s pathetic. Reuse<br />
by people who are not specialists, that’s very very dangerous. And I see<br />
people doing that all the time.<br />
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