Eschew, Evade, and/or Eradicate Legalese

[Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

As a follower of the Volokh Conspiracy <http://www.volokh.com/>, a blog 
that focuses on Constitutional law, I visited Professor Eugene Volokh's 
webpage at UCLA <http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/> where he's the Gary 
T. Schwartz Professor of Law. Taking a look at his extensive list of 
articles, I stumbled across this gem...

Eschew, Evade, and/or Eradicate Legalese 
<http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/legalese.htm>

Given that we technical writers inherit lots of documents from engineers 
and programmers, this list of alternatives for legalese applies just as 
much to those sorts of documents as it does to legal documents. Of 
course, if our subject matter experts/document originators applied this 
list (not likely), we might encounter further erosion of the demand for 
our services <grin>. Of course, there'd still be plenty of work for us 
converting passive voice to active voice, structuring documents 
rationally, and all those other things we do that add value.

Best Regards,

Mike
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