And if you look at the TL; DR of my legal background, that's what
we at Legalese call the Lawyer Version 1.0.
We enter the domain of computational law, which is something very close to what we do
at Legalese, and we start by designing a domain - specific language for law.
Not exact matches
You can take a look
at the filing yourself here, but be warned there's a lot of technical jargon and
legalese.
The
Legalese «This rider waives all premiums on the base policy if the insured becomes totally disabled without interruption for
at least six months.
An accountant or attorney who specializes in tax law — like the professionals
at Optima Tax Relief, can translate the
legalese generated by Congress and the IRS into plain English, and help ensure that you are able to take full advantage of all the tax breaks to which you are entitled.
Matt Salzwedel, who blogs
at The Legal - Writing Editor, agrees with Andy Mergendahl that lawyers should ditch
legalese, but zeroes in on two commenters who said their clients expect
legalese.
Closer to home,
at least where I am in
Legalese, we list down in our website the legal tech startups and people that we've encountered.
Some general guidelines to keep in mind include avoiding
legalese, writing
at a level commensurate with your target audience, and trying (as hard as it may be) to keep things interesting.
This confusion is noted in the Lawyerist blog which proposes that lawyers should help root out this antiquated, confusing, oft - litigated bit of
legalese by eliminating it
at every chance you get.
Consideration is exchanged and, most often, that agreement is recorded, often
at extraordinary length in unintelligible
legalese.
It is releasing to the legal community
at large the style guide it developed to help its own inhouse staff write legal documents in plain English and avoid
legalese.
That seems to be a pattern in the few cases in which Justice Watt has gone «noir» — a paragraph or two
at the opening done in crime novel style, then on to dry
legalese for the rest of the judgment.
Second, the rule is «
legalese»
at its best — nonspecific and open to an infinite number of interpretations.
At SEO Advantage, a certified Premier Google Partner, we speak both SEO and «
legalese,» using our fluency in both to provide maximum benefit to each client.
We always do our best to put clients
at ease and explain everything as thoroughly as possible, without «
legalese.»
Blogger Mister Thorne
at Set in Style points us to to an article in the Georgetown (Kentucky) News - Graphic, Pleaseth Updateth Thy Language, in which the newspaper's intrepid copy editor lives to tell about multiple encounters with archaic
legalese in the deed books of the local county courthouse.
At some point, the same way webpages are built on HTML,
Legalese users will be able to use apps built on top of L4 without even needing to learn L4.
The
Legalese «This rider waives all premiums on the base policy if the insured becomes totally disabled without interruption for
at least six months.