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Regulatory lawyer here. The contacts I have with my clients are often the in-house lawyers. They are not subject matter experts on everything they do, and if they had the answers they wouldn't be consulting us. And the advice we give often involves risk analysis. It is intended to achieve the right outcome or to help the client understand its obligations or the risks involved in different courses of action where there isn't a clear answer. It's not focused on CYA. I do find what I do interesting, FWIW. [/quote]

I'm a regulatory lawyer in a different context, but very similar job to what's described above.  There is either no clear answer, or the most conservative answer is infeasible / probably not what was intended.  We do a lot of risk analysis on the law, and also I'm in a safety field so there is a safety risk analysis when deciding what to do.  It's really interesting.  I think it's a shame more law schools don't focus on regulatory practice -- most people take one really boring admin law class and that's it. [/quote]

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