In this author’s opinion, one of the great disservices that we, as lawyers, are told in law school is the notion that using “legalese,” pseudo-Latin prose, and/or long-winded lawyer sounding words and ...

Documents written by lawyers are often hard to understand. They’re chock-full of arcane terms, and they systematically violate every precept of the “plain language” movement. Lawyers have only ...

Firms’ Customer Relationship Summary forms for retail investors are too cluttered with legal jargon and overtly technical terminology, according to the SEC’s Standards of Conduct Implementation ...

Speaking plain English is becoming a lost art in too many workplaces. Linguists, public relations professionals and management experts were not shocked when a General Motors Co. document surfaced ...