At some point, every corporate lawyer has heard the old trope: the legal department – it’s where good ideas go to die.

In the popular imagination, the lawyer is always the most risk averse person in the room; the one who can be counted on to think of all the ways a big new idea could go wrong; the one who sees risk around every corner; the one who takes a sharp, clean, bright concept and buries it under disclaimers.

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