> Don't lawyers have effective ways to include and reference things, create standard definitions and procedures without pasting the same stuff everywhere? In s

> Don't lawyers have effective ways to include and reference things, create standard definitions and procedures without pasting the same stuff everywhere? In some fields, yes — but as a class, lawyers: (A) notoriously prefer reinventing the wheel, and (B) sometimes could be suspected of hoping that the MEGO Factor — Mine Eyes Glaze Over — will cause the other side's contract-draft reviewer to overlook something that the drafter buried in a long, wall-of-words provision. I see that happen pretty regularly. (In the 1990s I initiated and headed up a project for the American Bar Association Section of IP Law to try to standardize the wording of various building-block clauses for software license agreements. [0] The chief IP counsel of a Fortune X company [X being a very-low number], whom I knew pretty well from the Section, said he was opposed to having any kind of standardized language because, he said (paraphrasing), "I want to be free to be an asshole.") [0] https://www.oncontracts.com/docs/Rutgers-MSLP-Precursor-to-Gap-filling.pdf https://www.oncontracts.com/docs/Rutgers-MSLP-Precursor-to-G...