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bob dennis
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Legalese nobody likes it!

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The study reveals that while lawyers have a better ability to interpret legal documents compared to non lawyers, they still find it easier to understand the same documents when they're translated into just plain old English. Lawyers rated plain English contracts as higher quality and more likely to be signed and equally enforceable as those written in legalese. The findings suggest that lawyers may be open to changing the way that legal documents are written, despite the entrenched tradition of using a complex language

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