re: I think that lawyers get a bad rap.

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Most agreements I sign with companies are at least 10+ pages, but what we actually want from each other could be described in one paragraph or less each. Most of the extra stuff is spelling out what should happen in the event some 1 in a million thing occurs. I wonder how much time and money is spent on the lawyers needed to consult on such overly complex agreements vs. the time and money that would be spent if you treated 1 in a million events like 1 in a million events and just dealt with them when they happened?

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You know why this stuff is in my agreements right? Cause all day every day I deal with problems arising from issues that you call one in a million. In addition the problem is usually made worse due to the fact that instead of getting a good agreement in place on the front end you and the other contracting party made an agreement that had one paragraph on a bar napkin using colors and are now pissed off at each other and wanting to extract blood from the other while telling me it's not about the money "it's about the principal".