Would it feed into itself, and make legal documents more approachable - for instance, inspiring a move to more
plain English legal wording?
Not exact matches
The
plain -
English legal publisher Nolo.com offers much information on business entities in its Nolopedia.
Here's a
plain English guide to the
legal issues, including constitutional questions, and what will happen next.
We've taken our deep
legal expertise and distilled it into a concise reference written in
plain English.
Financial Poise has one mission: to provide reliable and
plain English business, financial, and
legal intelligence and continuing education to investors, private business owners, executives, and their respective trusted advisors.
In what they are calling an unprecedented online collaboration, seven of the most influential U.S. law reviews are collaborating to launch The
Legal Workshop, an online magazine featuring
plain -
English articles based on scholarly counterparts published in traditional law journals.
The
Legal Workshop features short, plain - English articles about legal issues and ideas, written by an author whose related, full - length work of scholarship is forthcoming in one of the participating law rev
Legal Workshop features short,
plain -
English articles about
legal issues and ideas, written by an author whose related, full - length work of scholarship is forthcoming in one of the participating law rev
legal issues and ideas, written by an author whose related, full - length work of scholarship is forthcoming in one of the participating law reviews.
This led to (and this is my favorite part of this section of Tiersma's book) the first
legal writing in
plain English law.
Users ask
legal questions in
plain English and Ross searches legislation, case law and secondary sources.
Not «why» in terms of the battles between
Legal Writing in Plain English and «traditional» legal writing, but by learning the history of legal writing it
Legal Writing in
Plain English and «traditional»
legal writing, but by learning the history of legal writing it
legal writing, but by learning the history of
legal writing it
legal writing itself.
We like his «
plain English» approach to
legal matters.
We'll give you
legal services in
plain English.
Sean Flammer, Persuading Judges: An Empirical Analysis of Writing Style, Persuasion, and the Use of
Plain English, 16
Legal Writing 183 (2010).
The attorneys at our law firm also take pride in answering client's
legal questions in
plain English, while offering viable solutions to resolve conflicts.
Chambers USA 2007 America's Leading Lawyers for Business reports: «Clients raved about Steve Geanacopoulos, who worked on various private equity matters: «He is a member of our strategic planning team as much as a
legal resource — he offers invaluable commercial advice, interpreting the intricacies of the law in
plain English, allowing you to make an informed decision.»
That's why we always use
plain and simple
English rather than confusing
legal jargon, and it's why we're always upfront about what our
legal fees will be to help you feel more in control.
We'll explain what's going on in
plain English, with no
legal mumbo jumbo.
Strengths: «Her strengths are her passion for her work, her ability to translate incredibly complex
legal terms into
plain English and her realism - she manages expectations well.»
Some of our services remain eligible for
legal aid; those that are not are provided at a fixed price, so people need not fear the uncertainty of not knowing what the service will cost them...; We offer modular [unbundled] services, so that we can put together bespoke packages that suit everyone's pocket; We offer extended services by phone and email, so that people who do not want to come into an office don't need to (whether it's because they are simply busy or because they've been subjected to violence and prefer to remain in a place where they know they are safe); We offer flexible hours, including evenings and weekends; We demystify law by talking to clients in
plain English...
A small minority of
legal scholars and judges began to advocate
legal writing in
plain English in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In
Legal Writing in
Plain English, Bryan Garner gives a useful — albeit abstract — definition:
Besides its aesthetic virtues,
legal writing in
plain English gained additional momentum when people started realizing that it had real - world effects.
Left largely unchallenged, these
plain -
English texts and groups established the standard for good
legal writing.
But
legal writing in
plain English gained traction in the U.S. in 1963, when David Mellinkoff published The Language of the Law.
Legal writing in
plain English seems sensible, unless you're a lawyer that clings to tradition, and to your elite status as a lawyer.
Since Mellinkoff's The Language of the Law, other
legal - writing experts have continued to push for
legal writing in
plain English.
The good news, Fischer argues, is that lawyers have heeded Orwell's advocacy of
plain English, to the extent that «some
legal writing experts have explicitly acknowledged their debt to Orwell.»
«Today,
legal writing experts nearly all promote the same ideas about
plain English that Orwell did,» she says.
We are committed to answering our clients»
legal questions in
plain English.
All prepared in
plain, simple
English - not
legal jargon.
What if a computer could analyze your residential lease, NDA, or other
legal document, translate it from legalese into
plain English, and advise you on whether you may want to sign it?
Nolo's
Plain English Law Dictionary: Provides the definitions in plain English to more than 4,000 legal t
Plain English Law Dictionary: Provides the definitions in
plain English to more than 4,000 legal t
plain English to more than 4,000
legal terms.
«
Plain English for Lawyers: «Exactly What You Are Supposed to Do» Main Monday's Three Burning
Legal Questions»
It is best for everyone to use
plain English in your licenses and not technical or
legal language.
Who's afraid of
legal writing in
plain English?
Check out the website for Èducaloi [
English version], Quèbec's
legal education in
plain language institution.
«Friday's Three Burning
Legal Questions Main
Plain English for Lawyers: «Exactly What You Are Supposed to Do»»
Legal writing in
plain English may be populist in that it seeks to increase understanding of the law, but populism comes in both liberal and conservative flavors.
We will be happy to steer you through each stage of the
legal process, providing open, practical, cost - effective advice in
plain English.
Our Michigan personal injury lawyers will explain the
legal process to you in
plain English so that you understand your rights and how the process will work in your own case.
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.
Are there any law blogs that bring in
Legal Writing professors to write posts translating into
Plain English what the law bloggers previously wrote about?
First Slighted:
Legal Writing in
Plain English (2nd edn, 2013).
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.
One goal of the
Plain -
English Movement is to achieve a
legal - writing style that's comprehensible to both lawyers and non-lawyers.
There are five main reasons why: (1) Latin is inconsistent with the
Plain -
English Movement in American law; (2) Latin tends to obscure rather than clarify prose, even if your reader has
legal training; (3) Lawyers often use Latin as a substitute for lucid expression of complex thoughts, or merely to impress the reader; (4) Latin can result in comic
legal - writing blunders; and (5) Latin can lead to dangerous, sometimes outcome - determinative ambiguities.
Bryan Garner is another American
legal writer on the topic, whose work includes a book entitled Legal Writing in Plain Eng
legal writer on the topic, whose work includes a book entitled
Legal Writing in Plain Eng
Legal Writing in
Plain English.
In the last 50 years, the
plain -
English movement — which emphasizes simplicity, clarity, and concision — marginalized the remaining defenders of the Asiatic
legal - writing style.
Joy London recommends Brian Bailey's
plain -
English conversation starters that can get big
legal operations on the same page, saving time and money.
While some schools now make it compulsory for law students to study a
Plain Legal English module, the push for simplicity is rolling on a slow tide towards Nigeria.