In my (limited) experience I have seen very smart and talented people craft confusing agreements for these reasons: _ They start with an agreement drafted by o

In my (limited) experience I have seen very smart and talented people craft confusing agreements for these reasons: _ They start with an agreement drafted by one person and then many people propose or insist on edits, but because the process is a negotiation the tendency is not to rewrite the agreement but instead to tack on language from another author in a way that is confusing. Sometimes you end up saying the same thing twice in slightly different ways because two people wanted to say the thing in two ways and you want to just move on in a negotiation. _ You often work from a complicated agreement that has worked in the past and has all sorts of phrases and clauses from previous versions. People hate to change things and if they do make a change it is usually to add more.