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Anti-legalese

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It is not just your Legal Writing professors who insist that you write clearly. A judge in Minnesota has issued guidelines on reducing legalese in filings. Two of his rules - never use "and/or" and eliminate superfluous words such as "hereby" and "herein". Not bad advice for writing exams either, I should think.

Thanks to Legal Blog Watch for the tip.

Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat

Full post as published by Virtual Library Cat's Eye View on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).

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