Do You Remember The First Time You...?
Do you recall your thoughts the first time you had to decipher one of the "standard" construction contract forms? If so, you might empathize with the California publisher of Legal Commentary who observed in a recent post:
“Yesterday, a client asked me to take a look at a particular construction contract to interpret one of its provisions. I've been pouring through it since yesterday, cursing and yelling along the way. It is one of the worst contracts I have ever read. Its language is ambiguous, dense, and full of legalese, so a person who can ascertain its meaning should be eligible for a Nobel Prize. Ironically, it is a form contract presented in its industry as a blueprint for what a contract should look like.”