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posted by Wayne Schiess at 2:01 PM
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Wayne Schiess's legal-writing blog. Home is here: Legalwriting.net
Friday, August 15, 2008
previous posts
- This blog is moving
- Wayne Schiess's blog is moving
- A blog of note
- Teaching Fellows as legal-writing teachers
- Citation percolation
- Role of citations in legal writing--responses
- Guest blogger--Cheryl Stephens
- The best legal-writing sources--a series #3
- Student essay--role of citations in legal writing
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[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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