A case file that appeared almost overnight, with a dense and ramified factual architecture, difficult to grasp in a single glance, brought face to face two professions which, when they operate at their highest standards, are not defined by the mere application of rules, but by the way they manage to put facts in order, calibrate arguments and make the legal process clear and intelligible for all actors involved. On one side, an in-house legal department used to processing, at high speed,