Sometimes contracts and laws are often written ambiguously not accidentally, but because it's too the benefit of someone involved in the negotiation that it'll

Sometimes contracts and laws are often written ambiguously not accidentally, but because it's too the benefit of someone involved in the negotiation that it'll have to be sorted out later in court. Lawyers of course will say that they would prefer all contracts be clear and legible, and yet they don't write them that way, and I refuse to believe that it's just bad luck that every contract ends up being difficult to read and ambiguous. Everyone involved went to a good school and took a lot of classes about writing. Good lawyers love ambiguousness because that's where they earn their money. Obviously there's some clauses that everyone involved thinks need to be crystal clear, but it's not accidental that contracts are written in such a way that they admit several interpretations. If you read Matt Levine, you see examples of this intentional ambiguity being exploited by finance lawyers pretty frequently. https://archive.ph/tQhqB https://archive.ph/tQhqB is one example One way you can think about it is that ambiguity in contracts and laws is one more way that the powerful and wealthy can leverage that power against people who have less ability to hire good lawyers. A good lawyer will fight hard to make everyone they want clear and obvious, and everything they don't want vague and ambiguous, because they know they can abuse the legal system later to pick your pocket.