14th March, 2009 - Ten Things I Hate About My Job #1

I ran a little series about things I love about my job recently, and I thought I’d have a go at the flip side of the coin. If nothing else, it should take me ten entries closer to The Great Day of the Blog Catch Up. Let’s face it – they said it couldn’t be done, and they may yet be right, but damn it I’m gonna try.

I’M GONNA TRY.

Top of my list has to be other lawyers leaving things until the last minute. There are certain lawyers whom you can guarantee will leave a whole transaction until the week before everything is due to happen. It doesn’t matter how much you remind them about things; the deal will all have to be finalised at 4.45pm on the last possible day before the sky will collapse.
This leaves you in an unenviable position with your own client, of trying to point out at the earliest possible time that everything is going to have to be rushed through, because the agent on the other side has spent too much time rolling Havannah cigars on plump breasted girls from Musselburgh instead of settling down to get some work done.