Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] Do-it-yourself economy
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:27:29 +0100
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Le 16 d?c. 09 ? 15:22, Seth Rosner a ?crit :

>
> George, your [accurate, I believe] assessment of where the world,  
> not just
> photography, is put me in mind of an incident over 25 years ago when  
> I had
> just joined a New York City law firm as a senior, name-in-firm-name  
> partner.
> I was at the office late one evening and a younger lawyer who had just
> become a junior partner entered my office and asked if I would  
> review a will
> he and an associate were preparing for a client, seriously ill and in
> hospital. I read the will draft and went in to discuss several  
> changes, a
> couple were extensive. The young man said we can re-do the easy ones  
> but
> there's no secretary here to re-do the very extensive changes (a  
> time before
> total lawyer familiarity with computers etc) and the client is very  
> sick, we
> need to get this to the hospital at 8 tomorrow morning and it's good  
> enough
> as it is.
>
>
>
> I took him by the arm and led him to my office, not to embarrass him  
> before
> the young associate, and said, "I don't ever want to hear the words  
> 'good
> enough' from your lips again. If you are a professional lawyer, you  
> may not
> be the very best will draftsman in the world but every time you  
> draft a will
> or provide any other professional service in this law firm, it has  
> to be
> your very best effort. One of two things will eventuate here. I've  
> just
> joined this firm and will continue here if 'good enough' isn't good  
> enough -
> or - if  'good enough' is acceptable in this law firm, I'm out of  
> here." I
> stayed. For almost a decade.
>

Did you inherit in the end?
Phx

>
>
> Seth
>
>
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