Sentences with phrase «of legalese in»

In this interview, John recommends explaining cost drivers to clients, the non-use of legalese in explanations, and participating in rating services.

As she waded through a stream of legalese in search of permission from the rights holders (a corporation), she came to the following conclusion: «The rights holders weren't actually getting more money because of the copyright; what they were getting was the power to suppress art, to suppress communication.»

Not exact matches

Also included in the legalese were specific directions nullifying Bush - Cheney interpretations of federal law on interrogations following 9/11.

If you are in the market looking for a new piece of property, you'd have to look for the best place for real estate deals, spend time looking for the property, finalize the deeds, engage yourself into a litany of legalese, dig your head into paperwork, and all of this is just the beginning.

But in the age of information, potential hires — especially the savvy, smart types managers might want on their payrolls — are quickly realizing that such contracts amount to little more than meaningless legalese.

And while most bland cryptocurrency investors know little about the legalese - laden universe of sanctions compliance, anyone using any arrange of financial business knows that noncompliance can put you out of business - and potentially, in jail — quick.

You know as well as I do that the phrase «reasonable suspicion» is a carte blanche term of legalese which allows the police to prevent photography - like the film clip we're discussing - to be shown in public or even made in the first place..

«The Legislature did not authorize a Governor to bypass this provision of the Constitution and fill a vacancy in the Office of Lieutenant Governor pursuant to Public Officers Law,» Cuomo said, in his finest legalese.

The copies of the actual deal itself, legalese that, in the heat of the debate a decade ago, DeFrancisco could quote chapter and verse when explaining why he believed enhanced tax breaks for the existing and expanding Carousel Center mall would prove a mistake.

During the legislators remarks Grant and Schoenberger, in their finest legalese intonated that the proposal should sail through because the formal documents in front of the legislature were signed by the County Executive, Ed Day and the County Attorney, Thomas Humbach.

On one hand, the speech tests the audience's patience for legalese; on the other, it is a tour - de-force, a brilliant meditation on the fundamental tension between moral right and democratic law, delivered by an actor so thoroughly in command of the character that it feels almost effortlessly tossed off — one can only imagine that Lincoln, the lawyer and the president, spent many sleepless nights playing this debate out in his mind.

On the other hand, the banker is a mean guy who has tied up Joe's house in reams of paperwork and legalese.

California school districts are in the process of drafting plans detailing how they intend to spend state education dollars and, so far, most of the documents are dense with education jargon, acronyms and legalese.

They're smart, but capable of explaining any and all loan and lease - term legalese in a way that really makes sense.

Not pulling my books, I'll be signing a dreadful contract, with uncomfortable ambivalence, legalese in the place of hard numbers, and the certain knowledge that the document I sign is the only one that counts.

I suspect this is just legalese to cover B&N's corporate butt in the case of a major computer disaster or something.

That in turn can mean reading thousands of words of legalese before you read the first line of a new book.

I asked the customer representative where this information was available and he told me that it's in the fine print of the legalese agreement documentation.

Of course, in downloading and using the tool you'll have to agree to all the standard device - unlocking legalese, relinquishing your Prime's remaining warranty coverage and generally indemnifying ASUS against any damage you might do to your Prime a a result.

Also some of the 401 (k) providers look sponsors in to their plans with crazy high exit fees that were written in 6 point font on page 96 of the plan disclosure document in some combination of legalese and calculous.

The Legalese «The Acceleration of Death Benefit Rider provides payment of all, or a portion of the death benefit, of the amount that would normally be paid to the beneficiaries upon the death of the insured, while the insured is alive if they are determined to be terminally ill with 12 months (24 months in some states) or less to live.»

It's that small, folded paper written in legalese that you promise to read some other time (but of course that time never comes) or you just discard it with the other «junk» inserts.

If you didn't read the legalese in full (and honest, who reads all of that fine print?)

Interviewer 1: Well just a lease document can be like 10 pages long, can't it, with - depending on the lease company I suppose - with lots of very small writing in legalese which is pretty hard to understand.

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.

We'll take note of the page of fine print legalese, but refrain from reading it because it's just too much to take in.

In legalese, of course.

Nearly half of all state allow judges to help people represent themselves in court and 20 states now encourage the use of plain English in the courtroom rather than legalese.

For instance, India may not want a big company like Uber to be able to block liability claims by putting some legalese in front of average consumers who aren't able to make a detailed risk - benefit analysis.

After reading 1,000 cases as a first year law student — most of which were written in the stuffiest, densest legalese imaginable — my writing started to morph into what I was seeing everyday: passive voice, unnecessary Latin phrases, way - too - long sentences, etc..

Berman addresses his colleagues» points, but concludes: «Can anyone argue (without using legalese) that it is not «cruel and unusual punishment» for Genarlow Wilson to be only one of this massive population forced to serve 10 years locked in a small cage for this behavior?»

The legalese answer is, «when all the facts necessary to the cause of action have occurred and an injured party can obtain relief in court» (Ackerman v. Price Waterhouse, 84 N.Y. 2d 535).

One helpful articulation of the American doctrine can be seen in California Standard Civil Jury Instruction No. 2334, which can be paraphrased from the American legalese as follows, for ease of reading:

Attainable as it might be, however, many attorneys continue to eschew these goals in favor of complex «legalese,» to borrow an apt, though not entirely accurate, phrase from the popular vernacular.

We know how difficult it can be to get a grasp on what's actually going on in a criminal case or personal injury lawsuit, especially if all you hear from your attorney is a bunch of legalese.

Even without buying the book, you can browse The Legalese Hall of Shame and read Freedman's tips on writing in plain English.

So, for example, even if a superior repeatedly points out to the person that he should ditch the here - and - there words and other forms of legalese (as The Lawyerist's Andy Mergendahl has advised here), or that nominalizations and buried verbs should be reworked into active voice, or that Enclosed please find (PDF) is silly and should be stricken from all correspondence, a month or two later the superior will see these legal - writing foibles in a letter, memorandum, or, worse, a brief filed with a court.

If you apply to be a franchisee for, say, Subway, you will be faced with a thicket of legalese that differs depending on what state you're in.

Now, publisher Henry Holt and Co. is about to release his book, The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese, in which, according to Publishers Weekly, he «offers a cornucopia of hilarious, offbeat and downright bizarre examples of simple concepts contorted into words that defy understanding.»

What the Canadian Copyright Act offers in legalese, the Statute of Anne 1710, generally regarded as the first copyright act in the English - speaking world, affords in eloquence, beginning with its subtitle, «An act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies.»

Many lawyers are tired of hearing about legalese, and many still haven't embraced plain language in their own legal writing and speaking.

The legalese in s. 1 of Ontario's Time Act dates from the 19th century's establishment of standard time.

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.

I think they just want me to be responsive and get them answers quickly, and be practical in that, and keep the business issues kind of top of mind rather than get lost in all the legalese, and all the possible horrible things that could go wrong.

When you become a lawyer, legal language becomes your language, the language of your profession, and you begin to speak and write in legalese, mimicking all those who have gone before.

I was not aware of any other published style guide until, in mid-July, Robert Ambrogi, in a post entitled Striking a Blow Against Legalese: Adobe's Legal Department Open Sources Its Plain - English Style Guide, flagged to the wider community the publication of the Adobe Legal Department Style Guide.

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.

I concede that all of us (Canadian) legal professionials should be sufficient in our 3 official legal languages (English, French, Canadian - Legalese); however, it's also true that too many English speaking members of the profession don't go beyond the first and some fluency in the 3rd.

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Judge Richard Posner, who sits on of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, has launched an aggressive assault on legalese.