Execution

There comes a day in every lawyer's lfe called the "execution day".... the day when the documents are finally signed by all the parties......

that day frinally arrives after days (or sometimes years) of haggling by both the sides, of lawyers calling each other names, of clients yelling at the lawyers saying "give it to me in the next one minute otherwise my company will fold up!", of 15,000 versions of documents going out and an equal number of meetings and negotiations between the parties..... most often murphy's law kicks in also at the last minutes and everything goes wrong... from the printer that stops working to the office peon who just disappeared into thin air... everything goes wrong!!! and while one is typing out the words, another one prints out the documents...

and finally after all the blood of the lawyers have been expended on getting the documents into perfection (including checking the ampersand and the comas), the documents are signed by all the VIPs who actually dont have a clue as to what and why they are signing those documents..... There is a large ceremony where all the parties shake hands and behave as if the days of acrimonious verbal exchange never took place .... and which finally concludes in a party in a five star hotel....

and finally when it is all over the actual execution begins... of the lawyer that is.... "there is a comma missing in page 34", "there is grammatical error on page 23' or even "there is a formatting error and (a) is now coming after (b)"... and most often while you want to just scream asking them to see the big picture your professionalism demands that you take note of all this politely and tell them " Yes Sir, That will be done immediately" while all the time thinking "Go Fly a Kite and while doing so please fall off a cliff"


So at the end of the "execution day" you end up feeling "executed"- comma by comma, word by word, ampersand by ampersand....