there is growing research about the benefits of plain legal language. I just came back from the 2010 Clarity conference and there were some quite convincing presentations. The insurance industry is probably the one with the lowest interest in plain legal language as referred to frequently during the conference...
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Professeur Associé / Associate Professor
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ICN Business School
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De: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk de la part de Sally Gunz
Date: jeu. 21/10/2010 19:26
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Objet : Re: thinking plainly
Of course I will need translation on that.
Many, many moons ago when I was an articled clerk in Sydney Australia (yawn), a major insurance company decided to translate all its policies etc into 'plain English'. Well, that didn't last long. People saw what they were getting and....
Sally
On 10/21/2010 1:06 PM, Keith A Maxwell wrote:
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Keith A. Maxwell, J.D.
Nat S. and Marian W. Rogers Professor (Emeritus)
Professor Emeritus Legal Studies and Ethics in Business
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA
Adjunct Professor of Business Law
Dixie State College
Saint George, UT
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OK LMAO over this threat. James
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If you are laughing out loud, it is ROTFLOL.
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Rolling on the Floor Laughing (no, I am NOT cool....I had to ask a cool person)
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ROTFL? Please, no code that those over 60 don't comprehend!
Keith A. Maxwell, J.D.
Nat S. and Marian W. Rogers Professor (Emeritus)
Professor Emeritus Legal Studies and Ethics in Business
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA
Adjunct Professor of Business Law
Dixie State College
Saint George, UT
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ROTFL!
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Donna J. Cunningham, J.D.
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Faculty Academic Advisor to Phi Sigma Kappa
Associate Professor of Management
Langdale College of Business Administration
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
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Item from FEDweek Weekly Issue: Wed, Oct. 20, 2010
Plain Language Act Signed
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President Obama has signed into law (P.L. 111-274) legislation requiring agencies to use
plain language in documents directed toward the public and to train employees in clear
writing-for example, writing that does not utilize abstruse verbiage rather than use plain
words, nor is redundant by making a point more than once (that is, twice or more), nor
contains sentences that keep going even when the point at which they should have stopped
arrived far before the period, with period in this case referring to a punctuation mark,
rather than a measure of time, such as the time it takes to read writing full of unnecessary
dependent clauses, sometimes known as subordinate clauses, that make it difficult for the
reader to recall the subject by the end of the predicate, and that would not pass the law's
standards.
Nancy Hauserman
Williams Teaching Professor
Dept. of Managment and Organizations
Tippie College of Business
W312 PBB
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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