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human
Why were lawyers looking in the first place,the part I don't get.
gpt
I do not think there has been a reason given but from what has been said Biden asked them to get some papers etc and they looked in the boxes looking for whatever papers and found the classified folders so alerted the national archive. 

As to the lawyers overlooking the search for more documents, that would seem a sensible thing to do if you may be in legal trouble for mishandling them etc.

From what I have read the working theory is one of his secretaries put the stuff in the wrong box accidentally, which seems plausible to me, but I am surprised these things are not tracked more honestly.

Main difference between this and Trump is he lied about having any and stated repeatedly he did not, and told his lawyers to state they looked and found none, whereas Biden's lawyers found them and did what they were supposed to.