1. Learn the language of the law, without the legalese!

2. Lawyers love speaking legalese and hearing themselves talk. I learned this first-hand as a corporate associate for nearly eight years at two large New York City firms.

3. As usual the lawyers are throwing their legalese on me, however, Pre is being useful again.

4. In Latin legalese, pirates are termed hostis humani generis (an "enemy of mankind").

5. In the book Garner on Language and Writing, Former U.S. Solicitor GeneralTheodore Olsen wrote, "Legalese is jargon. All professions have it.

6. However, the statement will be read by the witness and the client, and should not be written in legalese.

7. And only rarely do they allow their managers to couch frank appraisals in canned legalese and innocuous psychobabble.

8. Baer promptly did so, hiding behind a cloud of legalese to justify his action.

9. Plain-language advocates and practitioners will nibble at the iron curtain of the tenacious legalese and other forms of gobbledygook .

10. But this is boring letter, adding virtually nothing to the prospectus' 245 pages of legalese.

11. Take challenging composition courses (not just creative writing courses, but classes in journalism, technical writing, etc.) so you can "speak" journalese, UNese, legalese, etc.

11. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

12. He would bring legal stuff to me and say, 'You're better at legalese than me.'

13. To the ordinary person, who hasn't spent three years grinding through law school, legalese gets its point across as clearly and effortlessly as a dose of ancient Greek.

14. There is never a shortage of entrants sent in by people baffled by bureaucratic language and befuddled legalese.

15. But Varney, tall and professorial, did not hide her message behind legalese or euphemism.

16. In most cases the release form is a standard boilerplate item presents no problems, but when it comes to legalese, better safe than sorry.