"Netflix" for Legal Design Thinkers
Compiled by Lieke Beelan founders of the Visual Contracts Community
What you’ll get out of this episode You’ll learn about modular contracts (contracts as connected building blocks)...
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is
From contract drafting to contract design
This is a library of guidelines, explanations, and examples to inspire and support you in exploring user-friendly approaches to contract simplification and visualization. Here we are dealing not so much with verbal content, there are plenty of good manuals and style guides out there to draft text that insulates the contract against litigation attacks. We focus on providing guidance and inspiration to present contracts so that they work better for their intended purpose and business audience. We want to support you in improving your contracts by helping you view your contracts through their users’ eyes, and organize, communicate, and visualize them so the users can find what they need, understand it, and use it.
Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon!
Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us.
Why It’s Time to Kill Legalese
Plain-language contracts are better for your business — and your customers.
Lawyers should learn from software developers
To advance law, lawyers need to learn software development techniques like modular design, branched version control and managing complexity with abstraction. Technology has transformed most data-based industries, but we haven’t seen much in the way of real innovation in day-to-day legal practice. The overwhelming majority of lawyers still...
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595 -> Plain language resources
The Victorian Law Foundation's database of plain language resources is broken up into activities to help you find what you are looking for.
The Elements of Style 4th edition
Every English language writer knows The Elements of Style. The book's mantra, make every word tell, is still on point. This much-loved classic, now in its fourth edition, will forever be the go-to guide when in need of a hint to make a turn of phrase clearer or a reminder on how to enliven prose with the active voice. Free download
Comprehensible agreements with Lawpatch
TL;DR Lawpatch is a collection of open source legal language that makes drafting agreements simple. LawPatch can: shorten technical legal documents to a quarter of the usual length; make technical legal drafting comprehensible to non-lawyers; and create a language that operates across jurisdictions (think jQuery for law).
plainlanguage.gov | Federal plain language guidelines
The official writing guidelines for the Plain Writing Act of 2010 [USA].
Law Words -> 30 essays on legal words and phrases
lntroduction [B]oth those who seek and those who provide securities for the performance of commercial obligations ... would save much time and money if in future they...set out their bargain in plain modern English without resorting to ancient forms which were doubtless designed for legal reasons which no longer exist. Trafalgar House Construction (Regions) Ltdv General Surety and Guarantee Co Ltd (Unreported, Court of Appeal, England, 22luly 1994, Saville LJ at p10) Centre for Plain Legal Language 1995 Faculty of Law University of Sydney
Clarity – promoting plain legal language
Clarity is a worldwide network of professionals who are committed to promoting plain legal language. With more than 650 members from 50 countries, Clarity is the largest international plain language organisation.
6/1/98: Bill Clinton's -> Memorandum on Plain English in Government Writing
The Federal Government's writing must be in plain language. By using plain language, we send a clear message about what the Government is doing, what it requires, and what services it offers. Plain language saves the Government and the private sector time, effort, and money.
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