the ppl i provide counsel for are always sending me alot of work and cc’ing bosses to follow up. my boss is cc’d but did not make an issue over this. how do you guys navigate? keep in mind they know im pretty busy, including the higher ups that are cc’d

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Yeah, sometimes they do that. Your boss doubtlessly knows what they’re doing and probably doesn’t even read it.

You’re fine. Just don’t take it personally or overreact. No need to do anything any different.

Besides, you should be drafting emails as if your boss might read them anyways…

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“This isn’t yet in our queue for review…looks like we’ve requested the pertinent details a few times and still haven’t received it.”

My whole process is designed to clap back. I’ve got 20+ deals at any given time; I don’t have the time to hound requestors to provide me answers to the 4 bullet point intake questions. Conversely I also make sure if a draft is pending, it’s due to other stakeholder input being outstanding.

Are you m&a?

Truthfully, even if they were pushing for arguably reasonable points, my secondary reaction is that the contract value is so small, is the juice really worth the squeeze? Lol ..

You're only one person, but maybe this is a good argument for letting you hire someone or use OC more

im at a pub co so there are atrorneys just doing other roles

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