You wouldn't be a lawyer.. if you didn't have the perception of what was necessary first... before proceeding...procedure first and then people. You know exactly "what I am getting at." Lawyering is the epitome of Paperwork first...then the problem.
My nephew is a lawyer...runs a department within the federal government in D.C...." nothing happens until the paperwork is done...only then do we move on with the drudgery."