How to write for the client.

The good folks at What About Clients? care about good legal writing. By eliminating the legalese and communicating like a human being, a lawyer can produce client-centered writing: something primarily for the client; something the client can readily understand. If you agree, then you’ll enjoy today’s post, in which Dan Hull riffs on an unusually pompous and putrid example of bad contract drafting. I especially like Dan’s closer, in which he says that writing in plain English “would help diminish the image of the self-important ‘ I’m-special ’ lawyer rocking back and forth in his chair and talking to himself like a mental patient.”

Comments

[Joanna Young]

This is such good writing advice, not just for lawyers, though I guess lawyers do face particular challenges in getting past the legal-ese and sounding like human beings.

Joanna

I just loved that last line, must go and check out the post!