Its 4 am on a Friday. I am looking at changes someone recommended to my draft.
My blood is boiling right now. I just cant stand it anymore.
(a) Is it just me, or has the language being used by lawyers become unclear and pompous and drowning in jargon?
(b) I am also looking at a draft sent by the other side, I don't know what they are smoking. (i) Their agreement reads like a tax statute in terms of cross referencing. (ii) I am unable to read a clause without being directed to another clause which again refers to another clause, which then refers to another clause, which then refers to a schedule and then which refers to Biden's Mummy's Insurance Agent's grandfather's brother in law's third will and so on. (iii) The agreement also uses such (for the lack of better words) obtuse, vague and obfuscating language, I am unable to understand the agreement. Its not that I am stupid, (I think) I am unable to comprehend it. But I am not sure myself now, because they are a T1 firm's team. And god the drafting mistakes and cross referencing errors
(c) Why can't you have short sentences? Whats the need for a 10 kilometer long sentence?
I see this issue mostly with the newer partners and the younger crop, these guys do not know how to give clear and proper briefings or instructions. They are from the 3,000 free SMSes generation. The older gen seems to be still better. God knows what will happen when the whatsapp gen will become partners.
Disgusting, the way people talk in firms nowadays - vague jargon filled speech which amounts to nonsense. Dafaq do you wanna say bro/sis??? ' Please fucking read (a) The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law and (b) On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. These should be mandatory readings given how bad things are.
I am no Shakespeare, and I am fairly average, but for the love of fucking god, write clearly and in a simple manner. You're not gonna win the Pulitzer by writing a pompous tharoor like sentence where simpler language would've sufficed. Please do not take pride in 1870s style drafting. It sucks. DonkeyCojones!!! You guys shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.
For the sake of making the other person's work easier, for the love of humanity, your language does not make you sound smarter.
God I am not even touching the litigation drafting, that's another beast for some other person.
My blood is boiling right now. I just cant stand it anymore.
(a) Is it just me, or has the language being used by lawyers become unclear and pompous and drowning in jargon?
(b) I am also looking at a draft sent by the other side, I don't know what they are smoking. (i) Their agreement reads like a tax statute in terms of cross referencing. (ii) I am unable to read a clause without being directed to another clause which again refers to another clause, which then refers to another clause, which then refers to a schedule and then which refers to Biden's Mummy's Insurance Agent's grandfather's brother in law's third will and so on.
(iii) The agreement also uses such (for the lack of better words) obtuse, vague and obfuscating language, I am unable to understand the agreement. Its not that I am stupid, (I think) I am unable to comprehend it. But I am not sure myself now, because they are a T1 firm's team. And god the drafting mistakes and cross referencing errors
(c) Why can't you have short sentences? Whats the need for a 10 kilometer long sentence?
I see this issue mostly with the newer partners and the younger crop, these guys do not know how to give clear and proper briefings or instructions. They are from the 3,000 free SMSes generation. The older gen seems to be still better. God knows what will happen when the whatsapp gen will become partners.
Disgusting, the way people talk in firms nowadays - vague jargon filled speech which amounts to nonsense. Dafaq do you wanna say bro/sis???
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Please fucking read (a) The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law and (b) On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. These should be mandatory readings given how bad things are.
I am no Shakespeare, and I am fairly average, but for the love of fucking god, write clearly and in a simple manner. You're not gonna win the Pulitzer by writing a pompous tharoor like sentence where simpler language would've sufficed. Please do not take pride in 1870s style drafting. It sucks. DonkeyCojones!!! You guys shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.
For the sake of making the other person's work easier, for the love of humanity, your language does not make you sound smarter.
God I am not even touching the litigation drafting, that's another beast for some other person.