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A lawyer in Des Moines looked at my retainer agreement in 2019 and asked who wrote the fee clause, and I've rewritten every one since
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evaallen1mo ago
Having a lawyer look over your retainer agreement is smart, but the fee clause being the problem is not really about who wrote it. Most of those clauses get copied from templates that have been passed around for years, so the person who wrote it might not even know what they were doing. Rewriting them is good, just don't assume a new version fixes everything if the terms still leave room for confusion about when fees get charged. The bigger issue is usually whether the client can actually understand it before they sign.
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