i'm not trying to make excuses for lawyers, i'm just providing you with reasons. and as someone who's been both a developer and a lawyer, lawyers are much more

i'm not trying to make excuses for lawyers, i'm just providing you with reasons. and as someone who's been both a developer and a lawyer, lawyers are much more at the beck and call of clients. software engineers generally know when they have deadlines approaching. lawyers get informed Friday night of a deadline they have Monday morning (transactional lawyers, that is). your last sentence is precisely the point i was making re bugs.