Why do relatively few BigLaw associates attend my public seminars in the U.S.?

• Associates are too busy, or too paranoid about not being busy, to spend a day away from the office doing continuing legal education. They increasingly get their outside CLE online.

• Law firms are still wrestling with an oversupply of associates, so spending money to have outsiders train them isn't a high priority. And your seminars aren't cheap, unless you're a West subscriber.

• Law-firm partners think that they can handle internally the task of training their associates how to draft clearer contracts.

• Law-firm partners think that you don't need to train lawyers how to draft clearer contracts, as the traditional process has served everyone well.

• Associates think that you don't need to train lawyers how to draft clearer contracts, as the traditional process has served everyone well.

• Associates are unaware that there's an alternative to the traditional process.

• Associates want to draft contracts the way partners expect them to draft contracts. Doing things differently would risk antagonizing partners.

• Whatever the merits of the seminar, spending a day pondering contract language is not an appealing prospect.

• Law firms get their contract-drafting CLE from the Practising Law Institute, never mind that PLI offers something very different.

• Other: