As the CAP website states: Plain English for Lawyers has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for almost 40 years.

Peter Butt, emeritus professor, Sydney University Law School and a consultant with Mallesons Stephen Jaques, will be presenting a workshop on 4 May entitled 'Plain English for busy lawyers: 10 lessons ...

“Lawyers are much better, it turns out, at reading these contracts either in plain English or in legalese and understanding them and answering questions about them.

"I get letters from shareholders who write to me, and they plead and beg for plain, clear language," Judge Chandler told lawyers for News Corp. and for more than a dozen large investors who sued ...

Most attorneys don’t believe that writing style matters. They might concede that writing in plain English can be aesthetically pleasing to the reader, but they also say that it’s not worth the time to ...

Information about the Law Professor Blogs Network.The Plain Language Column in The Michigan Bar Journal recently marked its thirty-year anniversary. A recent column by Joseph Kimble (pictured at ...

The cliches, sadly, are true. Attorneys get bogged down sometimes in lawyerly language when they`re talking to the most important people in a courtroom-members of a jury. More often than not, the l… ...

Lawyers are challenged to show their commitment to plain English. This country has led the world in bringing the law closer to the ordinary person – by a comprehensive rewrite of tax laws and by ...

Peter Butt, emeritus professor, Sydney University Law School and a consultant with Mallesons Stephen Jaques, will be presenting a workshop on 4 May entitled 'Plain English for busy lawyers: 10 lessons ...