"Emotionally, it's difficult and makes you think of death, but the lawyers are scriveners, " says Risman.
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Professional rules governing the legal profession force lawyers into a narrow groove, scriveners who don't attend to a deal's underlying business aspects.
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He employs two scriveners at his Wall Street office, the alcoholic Turkey and the mentally impaired Nippers, who are assigned to copy legal documents by hand.