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Computerworld reports that a Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton associate at reformatted an Excel spreadsheet and mistakenly added 179 contracts to an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers assets… It seems the spreadsheet contained nearly 1,000 rows and more than 24,000 individual cells. 

I will quote Elie Mystalas at Above the law on this one: “we all know, they don’t teach “Excel” in law school and they really, really should.”
 
Hat Tip to Catherine Sanders Reach for directing me to the article.

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