5 ms·
Lawyers are negotiators and their job is to maximize the company profit and security. If one signs such an overraching contract it is their stupidity. It is not
by miohtama 5y ago
Lawyers are negotiators and their job is to maximize the company profit and security. If one signs such an overraching contract it is their stupidity. It is not fair, but in a negotiation you are not supposed to be fair.
- le-mark 5y ago> their job is to maximize the company profit and security This is a naive view imo. Legal counsel advises leadership and protects them when they eff up or otherwise go to far. Legal doesn’t run the business. I actually heard a particularly coarse, unsympathetic CEO say this in a townhall once. It is true though.
- Notanothertoo 5y agoI think this is the naive take. Depending on company size and industry lawyers do have business input. There are man tech, and insurance, and finance companies that employ legal strategies to drive business. The big ones that come to mind would be Microsoft, Intel, and oracle.
- mistrial9 5y ago> in a negotiation you are not supposed to be fair. Civilization and its ways.. they come and go, I hear I once did a consulting gig for a C-suite of a very, very large company, personally. Uncharacteristically I was a tiny bit awed by this guy. I asked him about dealing with his company's attorneys .. it was nothing specific, but I got the sense that the executive in front of me, could in fact change the results, even with those kind of lawyers and that business environment. I was told once long ago that it is a leadership job to set the culture of the company, the way contracts are written and enforced is part of that. There is a very wide margin of behavior overall in the business world. Let's not rush to the worst of it here.