Legal Archives - Write https://writegroup.io/category/specialist-writing/legal/ Better business outcomes with clear, effective writing. Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:48:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 239178684 Clear legal writing: A practical guide for lawyers https://writegroup.io/clear-legal-writing-a-practical-guide-for-lawyers/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:55:32 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=425526 Picture this — your client reads your carefully drafted legal document. Instead of understanding and agreement, their furrowed brow signals ...

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]]> 425526 Plain language in courtrooms improves fairness and outcomes https://writegroup.io/plain-language-in-courtrooms-improves-fairness-and-outcomes/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:36:50 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=370453 Plain language is quietly making its way into New Zealand courtrooms, and helping to make them more positive, fairer places. ...

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]]> 370453 Why plain language matters in legal writing https://writegroup.io/why-plain-language-matters-in-legal-writing/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:42:31 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=275118 There’s no escaping it — legal documents sneak into many aspects of our everyday lives. They govern some of the ...

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]]> 275118 Do your customers trust your privacy policy? https://writegroup.io/do-your-customers-trust-your-privacy-policy/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:13:57 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=10699 If you’re a business or organisation, a privacy policy is often a legal requirement. When you collect personal information from ...

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]]> 10699 How to shrink your contracts — so that your business booms https://writegroup.io/shrink-contracts-business-booms/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:20:50 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=7404 My utopia is two non-lawyers sitting over lunch, and reading the document, understanding it, and signing it. My utopia may ...

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]]> 7404 Lose the legalese to win over your customers https://writegroup.io/lose-legalese-win-customers/ Wed, 17 May 2017 03:17:58 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=7144 Shoppers at Coastlands, Paraparaumu, find the following sign ‘rude’, ‘bossy’, and ‘intimidating’. Yuk. That’s certainly a very complicated sign. It ...

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]]> 7144 How bad writing is pilfering our privacy https://writegroup.io/how-bad-writing-is-pilfering-our-privacy/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:56:47 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=6452 Boring! It doesn’t make any sense! A 13-year-old’s reaction to reading Instagram’s terms of use. Would a child of 13 ...

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]]> 6452 How human is your legal writing? https://writegroup.io/how-human-is-your-writing/ https://writegroup.io/how-human-is-your-writing/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:13:32 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=4687 Do you write legal documents? Take this test to find out how human your writing is. Which statement do you most ...

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]]> 4596 Write legal documents for real people https://writegroup.io/write-legal-documents-for-real-people/ Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:36:06 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=4433 How do you measure the success of legal documents? All the expertise and all the words in the world are ...

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]]> 4433 Pruning the thicket — online terms and conditions ripe for editing https://writegroup.io/pruning-the-thicket-online-terms-and-conditions-ripe-for-reshaping/ Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:16:38 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=4414 Tangled roots, twisted vines, dense foliage — a rainforest, or a good description of online terms and conditions? The Economist ...

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]]> 4414 What does ‘and/or’ really mean? https://writegroup.io/what-does-andor-really-mean/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:34:05 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=4214 Writing ‘and/or’ in a sentence seems like an economical way to cover a couple of alternatives at once, doesn’t it? ...

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