> I totally get the walls of text are needed to a point, and we don't have good options to produce succin[c]t contracts.
You're too kind — literally.
Wall-of-words text is never needed in a contract. Clients should demand that lawyers do a better job in drafting readable contracts — because readable contracts get signed sooner, thus taking up less of the business people's time to negotiate and freeing them up to focus on other things (not to mention being less costly).
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The Two Great Rules of Readability above will get you at least 95% of the way there.
Wall-of-words contract language is analogous to spaghetti code in a computer program.
You're too kind — literally.
Wall-of-words text is never needed in a contract. Clients should demand that lawyers do a better job in drafting readable contracts — because readable contracts get signed sooner, thus taking up less of the business people's time to negotiate and freeing them up to focus on other things (not to mention being less costly).
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The Two Great Rules of Readability above will get you at least 95% of the way there.
Wall-of-words contract language is analogous to spaghetti code in a computer program.