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e-Closings: When Convenience Creates Inconvenience ' and Complexity

By Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

A staple of law-firm d'cor and lawyer gift catalogs is the stock “closing print.”

The details are familiar to anyone who practiced corporate law in the 20th century: a room crowded with unshaven, weary men with ties and collars undone, and shirts untucked. A few stacks of neatly prepared folders and documents are mixed among many more papers strewn around the table amid half-eaten meals and half-filled coffee cups. Junior lawyers and paralegals proofread, oblivious to the chaos around them, while senior partners desperately try to keep clients entertained as the process drags on.

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