Legal Due Diligence · glossary

Scope creep

The quiet growth of a review without more time or fees. Each request is handled in the open: do it and agree the extra fees, decline it and record the exclusion, or trade it for something else. Chapter 3

Explained in Chapter 3, Scoping the Exercise, of Legal Due Diligence.

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Scope creep is the quiet growth of a review without more time or fees. It comes from three directions…
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