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Why is this a novel idea? Most legal documents and not just court documents—letters and contracts, too are clunky and nearly illegible and full of jargon. And it has evidently been this way for quite some time. For many older lawyers, clarity both in presentation and vocabulary is apparently a liability, not an asset. Like I said, this is changing.

Bryan Garner should get a lot credit for this, as should Matthew Butterick, who is in charge of the wonderfully well-done Typography for Lawyers website and book.

These are really smart guys saying important things, but they are hardly mainstream thinkers. But this guy is maintstream. Alot vs. Regardless vs. Irregardless You should always say regardless, as irregardless is not a word. Less vs. Fewer Less means smaller in size, amount, or degree. Mute vs. Moot Mute means to be silent or give an irrelevant response. Then vs. Than Then is an adverb used to indicate time. Who vs. Whom Who is a pronoun that means what person or persons.

That vs. Too often, those legal words do nothing but make the text sound like a lawyer wrote it. Always, there are effective alternatives. I'm trying to drag legal vocabulary into Goodness knows we don't need words from , let alone So here are a few legal words we can leave behind.

I'm kidding. Eliminate them both and specify the place you are referring to. It's old and vague. As with almost all legal writing, the better approach is to specify what you are referring to and where it can be found. But this one I particularly dislike. Let's use the everyday-English equivalent: among others or among other things. All it really does is make the text smell legal.