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Totally agreed, including in this case. But just as true is that lawyers often provide contract wording that is essential for smooth resolution of disputes when
by jkaplowitz 8y ago
Totally agreed, including in this case. But just as true is that lawyers often provide contract wording that is essential for smooth resolution of disputes when they do arrive.
Lawyers should be persuaded by clients and peers to keep things as simple as fits the bill, not dropped entirely from the drafting of important contracts.
- Klathmon 8y agoI've always thought of lawyers like software developers in this case. If you give either of them carte blanche, they will tend to create overly complex and expensive systems. It's not even malicious or self-serving (at least I'd like to think it's not), but more that their jobs revolve around "edge cases", and without something to reel them back they will try their hardest to cover them all. I wonder if the software development adage of "good software is defined by what it does, great software is defined by what it doesn't do" applies to law?
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- gowld 8y agoA lawys giving a small client a bog-standard contract form is the good kind of development -- simple off-the-shelf solution that makes minimal fuss for maximal benefit.