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Your best hope, therefore, is that no such catastrophe visits, your relationship continues to flourish and ''no one ever looks at the contract again. ''Which begs the question: ''what are you paying lawyers for?'' | Your best hope, therefore, is that no such catastrophe visits, your relationship continues to flourish and ''no one ever looks at the contract again. ''Which begs the question: ''what are you paying lawyers for?'' | ||
The ugly secret of professional practice is that much work product can be like that because, for the most part, ''it doesnʼt matter if it is not''. A vanishingly small percentage of contracts are ever litigated. This is ''not'' because they are “good contracts” but because they describe good relationships: their parties donʼt fall out. ''Almost all contracts expire untested.'' {{maxim|If you have to read the contract, you have already lost}}. | The ugly secret of professional practice is that much work product can be like that because, for the most part, ''it doesnʼt matter if it is not''. A vanishingly small percentage of contracts are ever litigated. This is ''not'' because they are “good contracts” but because they describe good relationships: their parties donʼt fall out. ''Almost all contracts expire untested.'' <ref>{{maxim|If you have to read the contract, you have already lost}}.</ref> | ||
To its principals, the contract preparation process is a sombre mystery. They are not ''meant'' to understand the actual words, and may cause themselves trouble if they try. It is better just to take generalised comfort that there are a ''lot'' of words, they seem legally sonorous, they are strung together in carefully constructed, if forbiddingly unbroken, slabs and the battalions of advisors who have gathered at the banquet on either side to pick them over will, by the time the busboys are serving coffee and warming up the disco, have {{strike|maximised their chargeables|made peace with the legal content}}. | To its principals, the contract preparation process is a sombre mystery. They are not ''meant'' to understand the actual words, and may cause themselves trouble if they try. It is better just to take generalised comfort that there are a ''lot'' of words, they seem legally sonorous, they are strung together in carefully constructed, if forbiddingly unbroken, slabs and the battalions of advisors who have gathered at the banquet on either side to pick them over will, by the time the busboys are serving coffee and warming up the disco, have {{strike|maximised their chargeables|made peace with the legal content}}. | ||