UK Court Attacks Cut-And-Paste Boilerplate Lawyering

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 09/18/2008 - 01:47

One of the results of the word processing era is just how easy it is to simply cut-and-paste things, and perhaps no profession has made more use of this than lawyers.

We've seen it where lawyers include the name of the wrong defendant in a lawsuit, for example.

Now, a court in the UK has slammed some lawyers for practicing boilerplate cut & paste lawyering , noting that a drafted contract was so meaningless at points that it's...

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