[hristov]

It is an interesting theory, but I am not sure whether it is true because I do not know much about other attorney's drafting styles. My personal philosophy is to make everything as clear and unambiguous as possible.

But I have to point out that one reason why legal language tends to be complex, is because natural language is very ambiguous. Thus, it takes a lot of careful writing to actually remove all the ambiguities from something. What often happens when one writes a contract is one writes a first draft and then starts thinking "how can this be misinterpreted or wiggled out of." And then one continues to add or change wording to prevent misinterpretations, and then finds new ambiguities with the new wording etc., etc. And in the end we usually end up with something long and rather difficult to read.

To put this in a software perspective, this is the same reason why there will never be a natural english programming language.