Had to laugh... in my one-man business (20 years and still going) I have almost no "Standard Policies". Almost.
But one ironclad rule I do have is, "If a the CEO is a lawyer, run away. Away is where you must run." Every time I've dealt with client companies run by a lawyer it has been horrible. They seem incapable of signing a reasonable deal and getting on with the business at hand, but insist on crossing every t and dotting every i to the death. All the juice is sucked out of the deal before it even begins.
Oh, and the only client I have ever had to see a lawyer over (to collect outstanding invoices) was a law firm that had hired me to help them design a software system for... Debt Collection. (I kid you not.)
I think there are two kinds of lawyers: the kind who want to utilize their law school education to the fullest and the kind who have done that and realized the cost-benefit to over-lawyering is negative. The second kind has reasonable standard contracts and pretty much just refuses to spend more than a few minutes changing them. The first kind has completely unreasonable contracts and expects a long adversarial process to reach a reasonable contract.
But I agree with you because most lawyers are the first type.
But one ironclad rule I do have is, "If a the CEO is a lawyer, run away. Away is where you must run." Every time I've dealt with client companies run by a lawyer it has been horrible. They seem incapable of signing a reasonable deal and getting on with the business at hand, but insist on crossing every t and dotting every i to the death. All the juice is sucked out of the deal before it even begins.
Oh, and the only client I have ever had to see a lawyer over (to collect outstanding invoices) was a law firm that had hired me to help them design a software system for... Debt Collection. (I kid you not.)