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e-Closings: When Convenience Creates Inconvenience ' and Complexity

Thanks to the Internet, e-closings (and traditional closings) have become quite streamlined. The most sophisticated deals are done in virtual deal rooms that allow multiple parties secure, controlled access to documents and procedures for signing the documents. But there is a definite negative impact.

19 minute read September 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM
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Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
e-Closings: When Convenience Creates Inconvenience ' and Complexity

A staple of law-firm d'cor and lawyer gift catalogs is the stock “closing print.”

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