Party of the First Part podcasts
Adam Freedman of Party of the First Part, which I recommended recently, also provides legal-language podcasts.
You can get them on iTunes, here.
posted by Wayne Schiess at 5:40 AM
Legalwriting.net
Wayne Schiess's legal-writing blog. Home is here: Legalwriting.net
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
previous posts
- Article on "comma dispute"
- Recommended: Party of the First Part
- Funny phrases
- My new website
- shall query
- Beg the question
- Overdeleting that
- Do jurors understand "unanimous"?
- Book recommendation
- Eclectic
Wayne's books
[Plain language] has a bad name among some lawyers. This is usually because they don't understand enough about it to judge it properly. --Michele M. Asprey, Plain Language for Lawyers 11 (2d ed., Federation Press 1996).
A related bonus of a plain language style is the potential for reducing mistakes. Traditional legal language tends to hide inconsistencies and ambiguities. Errors are harder to find in dense and convoluted prose. Removing legalese helps lay bare any oversights in the original. --Peter Butt & Richard Castle, Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language 89 (Cambridge U. Press 2001).
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