Plain-English advocate picks on lawyers. Ouch.
Why do lawyers write so that no one can understand them? They say it is because they need to be precise, and that their language has been honed by centuries of litigation. But this is baloney. The real reason is that, although they are paid for their skill with words, most lawyers are dull and clumsy writers who have not broken the bad habits they learned as students.
--Mark Adler of Clarity, an international association promoting plain legal language.
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It would be thoughtful for him to mention the lawyers and law students working hard to get good at this stuff, though! Something like, "Although certain lawyers strive for clarity, most find comfort in fog. Why? They say . . . " I, for one, would appreciate a little reassurance that the whole lawyering world isn't of one mind. Indeed, if anyone has a guesstimation about how many folks in any given firm are on the natural language side, I'd like to hear it.
Shhh! The fact that lawyers can't write is one of the best kept secrets in the law world. Non-lawyers mistakenly believe that legal writing is part of a brilliant secret code that only lawyers know. If we let them know that, in reality, it is just poor writing, then they will start thinking we're not worth quite as much. Don't you realize that our worth is directly proportional to how many prepositions we can fit in a single sentence? Wherefore, I rest my case upon the arguments heretofore had herein.
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