Slow litigation is frustrating.
Mr. John W. Davis (of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner, Reed & Co., was in court representing a client in a more than usually tedious bit of litigation. The testimony of one account took the entire day. Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
By Philip W. Wrenn and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 2, 1940 P. 9 Mr. John W. Davis (of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner, Reed & Co., was in court representing a client in a more than usually tedious bit of litigation. The testimony of one account took the entire day. Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
The New Yorker, March 2, 1940 P. 9 Mr. John W. Davis (of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner, Reed & Co., was in court representing a client in a more than usually tedious bit of litigation. The testimony of one account took the entire day. Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
Further, each time the screen appears, the driver must agree to a liability disclaimer -- a common annoyance with these systems, and a sign of Americans' fondness for litigation -- which becomes tedious.
Simultaneously, the easy profits once earned in litigation departments have also dried up: the tedious task of reviewing mountains of documents, which law firms used to farm out to battalions of newly qualified associates, can increasingly be done by computers.Putting up prices at a time of weak demand and fierce competition seems perverse.
"So it's tedious, really tedious.
Supposedly tedious, that is.
