Sometimes I can't help but feel that most lawyers do not
  much more than present an obfuscation layer around
  standard forms.

I bet non-technical people also have that feeling about engineers.

"It took you a second to change the behavior of this. You're obviously not working very hard." ..when in reality, it took a lot of effort to make a system flexible enough to adapt its behavior quickly to changes in requirements.

...but I'm getting off topic now. :)