HE ROAD to a corporate attorney’s office collection of lucite tchotchkes – known as “tombstones” or “deal toys” – is paved with the secret lessons of uneventful days.

Associates mired in such days – planted in some airless room, say, pouring over contracts and documents in the good cause of due diligence – might well ask themselves, “I went to law school for three years for this?”

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