The sad thing is that there are a lot of readily available peer-reviewed standard contracts applicable to engineering and surveying services. They work, and apportion responsibility and liability appropriately. These are obviously not acceptable to someone who wants to add value to the process by including clauses that they don’t understand, but saw somewhere; clauses that exonerate their client from deliberate non-performance; clauses that inarticulately use 500 word, when maybe 20 would do, clauses that *have* to be intentionally ambiguous, clauses that show the contract drafter hasn’t a clue regarding the industry and standards of practice he/she is dealing with … ad nauseam.

Sorry for the rant. I came here from an Instapundit link, I think – which referred me to another and then another and I eventually wound up here. I coundn’t resist.

Jim Hall