If there’s one lesson that gets drummed into every lawyer’s skull from the moment he or she arrives at law school, it’s this: Be precise. And if you happen to be writing up a property agreement designating legal ownership of a Major League Baseball team for a mercurial married couple, it pays to be very, very precise.

If Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein didn’t absorb that lesson before, we’re pretty sure he’s learned it now.