Lawyers can either be your best friend or your worst enemy in getting a contract worked out. If they're just posting letters back and forth at each other, I'd t

Lawyers can either be your best friend or your worst enemy in getting a contract worked out. If they're just posting letters back and forth at each other, I'd try and find a different lawyer fast. A conversation needs to take place with the interested parties so that people know what they can compromise on and what they can't - see how much leeway they're prepared to give each other. Marked up contracts, after the initial exchange arguing about things that the client perhaps doesn't even care that much about, is not such a conversation.