My experience has been that, in general, lawyers who negotiate contracts go way too far trying to eliminate risk. If you are talking about a really big contrac

My experience has been that, in general, lawyers who negotiate contracts go way too far trying to eliminate risk. If you are talking about a really big contract with serious money on the table, a good practice can be to befriend a lawyer with lots of litigation experience to help you balance that tendency. It's sometimes worthwhile to get the opinion of a lawyer whose eyes light up when someone else says, "Fuck you, sue me!"