If you have bought anything larger than a lock washer, you've seen the documents. In paper form, reams and reams of paper describing every last thing possible in a purchase contract. In my fifty-five years in industry, I can't think of anything that has grown faster than the purchase "agreement." Yet, today, a significant portion of my income is from efforts as an "expert witness" in contract arguments. Something is amiss here. How did this happen?
