Sentences with phrase «words of legalese»

If Instagram can reduce 5,000 words of legalese to one - page of Plain English for their terms and conditions, then you can condense your career to two - pages.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

When I recently conducted a Twitter poll on most - disliked legalese words, I was struck by this fact: 25 % of the participants said they loved legalese.

Hereinafter looks like one of those words that falls within the category of legalese.

Even more sort of interesting things like, «This is a gobbledygook legalese word that you shouldn't use.

He has written two books, including Lifting the Fog of Legalese and among the papers he has authored are Answering the Critics of Plain Language, Plain Words (Part 1), and Plain Words (Part 2).

Releases are often dense and cumbersome in their wording and full of legalese.

The SRL usually is not versed in legalese and when they tell the facts or make argument using everyday language that says the exact same thing the legalese says the judges pretend not to understand (in some cases they actually may not understand, I find them often very unaware of basic legal principles) so they take the easy and safest way out by saying the one word that works for them - dismissed.