This reminds me of something my father, a retired patent examiner, told me once. For a certain legal procedure the US Patent Office has a form letter a lawyer can use that contains all of the relevant information in a convenient format. My father was amazed by lawyers who refused to use it and instead wrote their own version of it. This seems like a waste of time for both the lawyer and examiner. When my father asked why, at least one lawyer told him that they believed the standard form had legal implications they didn’t like, though my father insisted that case law made it clear that was wrong here.
Another (cynical) hypothesis is that these lawyers are paid by the hour and that they actively wanted to waste time.
This reminds me of something my father, a retired patent examiner, told me once. For a certain legal procedure the US Patent Office has a form letter a lawyer can use that contains all of the relevant information in a convenient format. My father was amazed by lawyers who refused to use it and instead wrote their own version of it. This seems like a waste of time for both the lawyer and examiner. When my father asked why, at least one lawyer told him that they believed the standard form had legal implications they didn’t like, though my father insisted that case law made it clear that was wrong here.
Another (cynical) hypothesis is that these lawyers are paid by the hour and that they actively wanted to waste time.