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On July 2, 1963, the founder of a prominent law firm in Louisville, Ky. (my home) wrote the seven other lawyers in his office to set forth his “very substantial dissatisfaction” with those lawyers’ practice habits. Prominent on Sam Greenebaum’s mind was the misuse of forms:

I believe that I have the right to expect from you some degree of original thinking and imagination concerning the practical aspects of problems you have for solution. I find that you are far too prone to follow forms regardless of their applicability to particular situations. The forms which are available, whether they be found in texts or are those we have produced in this office, in addition to lacking universal applicability are in many instances incorrect or outmo...