This article is horrible advice. When I started in 1997 I paid a lawyer about $600 to draw up my "standard contract", since then I've had to attempt to recover

This article is horrible advice. When I started in 1997 I paid a lawyer about $600 to draw up my "standard contract", since then I've had to attempt to recover fees from non paying clients a number of times. Twice it was in amounts enough to sue -- $77,000 and $13,000. In both cases I recovered the full amounts, in no small part thanks to a signed agreement.