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More and More, Expert Witnesses Make the Difference |
August 19, 2005 Trial lawyers may be the peacocks of the courtroom, strutting before a judge or jury and making arguments with a sense of drama and style, but often these days it's a tweedy professor, explaining some impossibly arcane subject in plain English, who may make the difference.
From: www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/business/19legal.html |
Instructions, All 98 Pages, May Be Slowing Jackson Jury |
June 12, 2005 Jurors have spent five days deliberating criminal charges of child molesting against Michael Jackson and lawyers say the panel may well spend more than two weeks weighing Mr. Jackson's fate, given the length of the three-month trial and the sheer volume of testimony heard.
Full Story: www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/national/12jackson.html |
Fla. Gov. Signs Hurricane Insurance Bills |
June 02, 2005 Gov. Jeb Bush, who said he recently looked at his homeowners policy and didn't understand it, signed a bill Wednesday that requires insurers to explain their coverage in plain English.
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Laws are better when easy to read |
March 12, 2005 Thomas Jefferson fought legalese. He drafted the Declaration of Independence with all the passion and strength his words would permit. He particularly disliked legalese in statutes. : &lqt; ... from their verbosity, their endless tautologies, their involutions of case within case, and parenthesis within parenthesis, and their multiplied efforts at certainty, by saids and aforesaids, by ors and ands, to make them more plain, are really rendered more perplexed and incomprehensible, not only to common readers but to lawyers themselves.&lqt; After reading that you are also probably thinking, &lqt;Huh?&lqt;
Full Story: www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050312/COLUMNISTS0201/503120304/1089/businesS |
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