Now the notebook is getting into the fun stuff breaking down contract writing. My supervisor told me it is, as much as you can call it, an art in law.

If you could distill the critical court terms into the least amount of pages and not run afoul formatting or redline history issues you had transactional gold in ink.

“Not UNABLE to,” replaced with “is not granting at this time” to prevent speculative language on future limitations when the response is for the request not the policy for example.

It’s not really noticed anywhere. But lawyers notice. And to the accountants the department costs reflect that. (Lesson 2: in-house is an expense unit, your job is to justify why you don’t generate revenue to the accountants. lol)