TIMELESS Public Relations Management

If users have trouble understanding your policies because there is too much legal language, it could have consequences for your business. Common legal terms include the following, which we discussed in this lesson: Legal language is used by companies in the hope that they will make their policies more legally sound. However, since few users are familiar with legal language, too much of it in your legal policies will likely hurt your business. Legal language continues to be used, in part because it saves time. It can be difficult to fully explain a complicated legal concept while being brief. If you`ve ever seen The Simpsons, you may remember Bart Simpson yelling about force majeure used to describe unforeseen circumstances that prevent someone from performing a contract. There`s a lot more to the concept than that, and lawyers know it, and all that complexity can essentially be reduced and condensed into two Latin words. Legal writing courses in law schools increasingly emphasize the benefits of legal writing, which can be understood clearly, concisely, and by non-legal readers. Proponents of plain English argue that since non-lawyers have adjusted their legal rights, duties and obligations through legal instruments, parties should be able to understand the content of the instrument without having to bear the additional costs of hiring a lawyer to translate the legal language. There are laws around the world that explicitly prohibit the use of legal language in legal policies. Write an essay of about two to three paragraphs that defines legal language as it should do and how it differs from normal language. I realize that this statement is written in the harmless legalese that judges must use, but I am sure that Justice Gallagher is showing his true feelings here.

Although there has been a movement towards the use of simple or simple English, legal language persists in the legal field. This is often attributed to lawyers who believe that legal language increases the prestige of legal jobs, impresses clients, and protects market demand for legal services. Proponents of legal language also believe it allows for greater precision in legal drafting. The formation and use of model contracts and model documents promotes legal language because there is no economic value in rewriting these models. The term “review” is legal language – but an important legal language because it describes exactly how a court should review a law. First and foremost, write your fonts in plain language. Avoid long and complicated sentences and replace legal terms with simpler words whenever possible. Intestate This is a person who died without having made a will.

Legal language refers informally to the specialized terminology and expressions used by people in the legal field and in legal documents. Legal language is notoriously difficult for the public to understand. The most important features of classical legal language include long, verbose and complicated sentence structures with passive and outdated formalisms, as well as the use of Latin, archaic or unnecessarily long words when a simpler and clearer language exists. When customers see legal language in your business policies, they may feel confused, offended, or simply reluctant to engage with your business. All of these feelings make customers less inclined to make a purchase or sign up for membership. Part of the reason why legal language may seem so unknown to a layman is that a word or phrase may have a very specific meaning in law that is completely different when used outside of it. When common words are used, it can be confusing to know in what context the word or phrase is used. For example, we can often use discovery and damage in our daily lives, but these words have a more specific meaning when it comes to the law. Some joke that lawyers use legal language so they can charge higher fees.

While this is not entirely true, as mentioned above, there may be some truth to this. Just as a physician needs to know a lot about technical terms when diagnosing and treating patients, lawyers also need to know the language of the law to do their job effectively. This is partly why clients pay legal fees. Clients hire trained and qualified lawyers to help them navigate their legal questions and documents. Here are three main reasons why you should avoid legal language when creating your legal and business policies. Legal terms can be extremely confusing to laymen, but lawyers seem to use them on a whim. Every law student needs to learn this, so they learn it during their years in law school, use it daily in their professional life, and may not even realize they`re using it.