A Few Good Coders
Son, we live in a world that has documents, and those documents have to be reviewed by men working for temp agencies. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. 40?!
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for temporary attorneys, and you curse your billable hours. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That temping, while tragic, probably makes money. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, makes money. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me coding documents - you need me coding documents.
We use words like “redaction“, “privilege“, “confidential other“. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent doing doc review. You use them as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very documents that I code, and then questions the manner in which I QC them. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you press “Get New Assignment”, and code a batch.
Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think about being a real attorney.
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