A little while back, a client asked me whether there were instances where she could avoid the rigamarole (and expense) of drafting up new agreements, whether her business could survive if she saved written contracts for the big projects, the ones that could bring in real money. I told her that I empathized with her position. As a business owner you have to make tough decisions about where to allocate your limited funds. Drafting contracts for small jobs didn’t seem to her like a good place to do that. I also told her that she could save money by reusing some boilerplate language from a contract I had previously drafted for her. That would cut down on costs. Then I yelled at her.