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Entry 056 of 93Common practice

Objection: "Need to Run It By Legal"

Treat legal review as a step to plan for, not a stall, so the deal doesn't go quiet in someone else's inbox.

How it sounds

  1. Buyer We'll need to run this by legal.
  2. You Makes sense. What does legal usually flag on deals like this, and how long does that typically take?
  3. You Offer to join a call with legal directly instead of waiting on a relay.
  4. Result You keep visibility into the deal instead of it disappearing into someone else's queue.

The rest of this entry is in the full archive

  • How to tell a genuine legal step from a stall dressed up as one
  • What to ask so the review doesn't sit in a queue for weeks
  • When to offer to get on a call with legal directly
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