Sentences with phrase «with legalese»

As for the rogue employee theory, this also seems unlikely because it is hard to imagine the average sales person having both advanced computing skills and the familiarity with legalese to draft a paragraph of boilerplate.

Even though it is a novel, with legalese, and repetitive points, read it anyway.

It's loaded with legalese and insurance industry jargon, and can be downright confusing.

I just think that for a number of reasons, florid, complex writing strewn with legalese does a poor job of communicating, whether the reader is a lawyer, judge, or layperson (like a client).

OKM is often hijacked by politics within the organization, resulting in either: (a) a massive change management challenge where the lawyers actively resist or ignore OKM efforts, or (b) OKM that represents a compromise in quality due to «folk wisdom» input from powerful players in the organization (e.g., poorly written contract clauses reflecting an influential equity partner's preferences, even if they're rife with legalese and make negotiations more difficult).

Non-clients are not impressed with legalese.

Confuse Them With Words: Confound with legalese: «aforementioned,» «hereinafter,» «said,» «same,» and «such.»

A multi-step process (with legalese) would scare away the cretins who expect easy praise.

Sorry, I am not completely familiar with legalese.

The rules book is a mildewed pamphlet crammed with legalese and hypotheticals.

Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

They're often filled with legalese.

Not exact matches

The argument a tech company lawyer might offer, namely that consent has been given through a pop - up form filled with paragraph after paragraph of 6 - point - size legalese is, frankly, bullshit.

Your attorney should speak to you in terms you're comfortable with — not legalese.

The notion that ideas are a form of violence comes not from clear thinking or neighborly experience but from the HR office, with its canned psychology and legalese.

I contend generally lawyers who have been trained in weaseling out reading law with an eye toward what it does and doesn't mean, which is what make «legalese» happen.

It's been copied verbatim from Microsoft legalese, with direct references to the Xbox One and Xbox Live in it.

And while the video starts with a pretty clear explanation of how copyright works (thankfully with the help of a narrator, rather than the cartoon characters» typical gibberish), when the video gets to the issues that most people probably do have questions about — particularly fair use and mashups — the narration runs into high speed, brushing over legalese like it's a joke.

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.

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.

If you research the companies you do business with, read the fine print and make smart decisions, you'll save yourself a bundle of cash without having to do much more than read some boring legalese.

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 A life insurance policy with a critical illness rider will pay out a lump - sum benefit to the insured if they are diagnosed with a covered critical condition (such as cancer, stroke, or a coma).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

The result, as with so much legalese, is confusion.

Perhaps many lawyers today resist cutting out non-Latin legalese because they view it with the same respect that 19th - century lawyers viewed Latin.

Just combine some legalese - sounding words with some disruptive - sounding words, and then you have a name for your startup.

Can anyone point towards specific cases where someone with a similar will has run into major problems because they wrote a simple will instead of the complex legalese one?

Not all property acquired is subject to community property; most states will exempt property owned before marriage, unless it is «commingled» (that's legalese for «mixed») with marital property.

Also of interest (and possibly the subject of future blog posts): Chapter Two, where she focuses on avoiding legalese and communicating with clarity and Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight, where she offers tips regarding voice inflection and speed, strategies use of counsel to better communicate ideas, and the effective uses of gesture and body language to facilitate comprehension.

Via Boing Boing, a link to Law is Code, which discusses a demonstration that legalese has more in common with software than literature.

They're legal documents with peculiar formatting and content and language (or «legalese»).

Attention all lawyers who practice before United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel, D. Minn.: He has just about had it with your crappy «legalese» and he has a 19 - point plan to get you writing like a real person again.

Via Boing Boing, a link to Law is Code, which discusses a demonstration that legalese has more in common with software than literature... [more]

It's easy to speak to us — straightforward and frank emails and calls, with just the right level of detail; not lengthy legalese.

Compelled to interact with the judicial system yet unable to afford counsel and unable to interpret legalese, the accused is placed in an unfair fight.

Like the Chinese clients referred to by your students, the older generation are impressed by a lawyer who uses legalese while the younger generation is more concerned with what the lawyer can do for them.

This week, LawTech.Asia sat down for a chat with Alexis Chun, Co-Founder of Legalese.

Such legal sites often lack color and organization, and are filled instead with long blocks of dry 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.

Whether or not one treats the majority opinion's public forum analysis of social networks as «dicta» (which is legalese for «stuff in an opinion I don't like so I don't consider binding»), all 8 Supreme Court justices agreed that subscribers have a First Amendment right to access information and speak online, and that the government can not prohibit a person from accessing content that has nothing to do with preventing repeat offenses — even when the repeat offense is child molestation, and the evidence arguably supported that child molesters were particularly prone to repetition.

No «legalese» — We will speak clearly with you, use a minimum of jargon, and make sure you understand your case.

For example, Kenneth Chestek found that judges, law clerks, and practicing lawyers rated sample briefs with strong narrative components as more persuasive than sample briefs without strong narrative components.13 Sean Flammer found that judges rated sample briefs as more persuasive when they were written in plain language rather than in legalese.14 Similarly, Robert Benson and Joan Kessler found that appellate judges and their law clerks preferred briefs written in plain language rather than in legalese.15 Finally, Joseph Kimble and Steve Harrington found that judges and attorneys preferred plain language over legalese.16 These studies, however, measure only the judges» and lawyers» stated preferences for particular styles of writing.