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	Amazon.com: Legalese: DVD: James Garner,Gina Gershon,Mary-Louise Parker,Edward Kerr,Brian Doyle-Murray,Kathleen ...
		The best film satires are not necessarily to be found in the theaters, where only independent filmmakers have the courage to risk alienating the ticket-buying audience.
		Cable TV has proven to be fertile ground for many a sharp-tongued script and Legalese is as smart and acerbic as they come.
		James Garner is deliciously conniving as a high-profile criminal lawyer who secretly presides over a high-profile murder trial like he's the Wizard of Oz, whispering directions into the ear of his fresh-faced assistant (Edward Kerr) while monitoring the surrounding media circus from his multimedia eye-in-the-sky office.
	www.amazon.com /Legalese-James-Garner/dp/B0006Q948C (364 words)

	Legalese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legalese is the term given to the special technical terminology of any given language (usually English) in a legal document.
		Legalese is prone to having very long sentences with many carefully phrased clauses.
		The terminology is officially used to make documents less subject to unintended reinterpretation, but many argue that it also can have the effect of making documents hard to read for non-legal people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legalese (102 words)

	UH Law Center - > Legalese (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Legalese is a student publication of the University of Houston Law Center.
		Legalese is open to all viewpoints, and strives to bring forth a meaningful dialogue on issues concerning -- but by no means limited to -- the University of Houston Law Center, public policy, and current events.
		Legalese is published four to six times a year.
	www.law.uh.edu /organizations/legalese/homepage.html (147 words)

	EEI Communications - EEI Press
		Legalese, the specialized vocabulary of law, is designed to impose precision and certainty on the adversarial process of litigation.
		Legalese is not plain English and doesn't aspire to be.
		To sweep away the needless legalese, delete in conjunction (redundant with with) and change the notes thereto to the accompanying notes or even, if the notes are an integral part of the statements, just notes.
	www.eeicommunications.com /eye/legalese.html (1951 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Legalese (2004)
		Legalese wants to be a cutting satire, but it never quite gets there, mostly because it simply isn't funny.
		But other than these passing amusements, there is little in the satire of Legalese that qualifies as comedy, perhaps because the whole televised trial sideshow has only gotten more popular in the last seven years, and none of this seems the least bit over the top.
		Legalese is an entertaining courtroom satire with a strong cast, but it's never much more than a pleasant diversion.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7016 (813 words)

	Legalese (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When they said, "the pen is mightier than the sword", in most likelihood they had Legalese in mind, the Drafting and Conveyancing event at the Law Fest Goa 2004.
		Registration for the Legalese shall have to be effected in accordance with the general rules for Law Fest 2004.
		Legalese Problem/Case No. I: Attached as Annexure III (at the end)
	www.vmslaw.edu /moot2004/legalese.htm (431 words)

	Halfbakery: Legalese Babelfish
		One can't help but wonder, since the original Babelfish from the HGTHG series fed off of brainwaves, whether or not rendering legalese into conversational English will result in killing the poor fish off from either poison or starvation.
		Pedantry leads to legalism, legalism leads to legalese, and legalese leads to the dark side.
		Legalese translations, I would think, need to be not only of American lawyer translations, but of British, French, Canadian, etc. If you ever realise it, Legalese spans so far.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Legalese_20Babelfish (397 words)

	The Clarity Awards (After Five Years)
		But just criticizing legalese isn't enough, because there is a tremendous gap between just criticizing legalese and actually writing clear legal documents.
		By publicizing actual documents, we eliminate the rationales and excuses that legal documents must be written in legalese because of complexity, case precedent, statutes, and precision, or that people won't eliminate legalese because of tradition and inertia.
		In addition, we also developed a legalese list of the most common formalisms, archaic words, and redundancies that legal-writing instructors have been encouraging lawyers to eliminate for the last 20 years.
	www.michbar.org /generalinfo/plainenglish/columns/clarity5years.html (811 words)

	OK/Cancel » Blog Archive » Legalese vs. Usability
		Legalese is a strange thing to have in a piece of software.
		Rather than submit them to all kinds of legalese to assert this, you can attempt to prove to them that nobody can ever read their mail through the interface.
		Because lawyers want their piece of the pie too, and the only way to measure that contribution is in the quantity and obfuscation of their legalese.
	www.ok-cancel.com /archives/article/2005/07/legalese-vs-usability.html (3535 words)

	Legalese List for Lawsuits
		Therefore, briefs should not contain the elements that we have defined as legalese (formalisms, archaic words, redundancies, and Latin words) and legalese compounded (long sentences, weak passive verbs with nominalizations, wordy phrases, and long words).
		District courts, circuit courts, and the Court of Appeals are the most appropriate places to determine the quality of briefs and to develop a legalese list of the worst elements found in briefs in Michigan.
		The symbol and the phrase are two of the worst examples of legalese in Michigan.
	www.michbar.org /generalinfo/plainenglish/columns/legalese2.html (971 words)

	Mandatory Legalese in E-mail Signatures: Seeking Perspective \| Kairosnews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stick this legalese on the end of every email, and students will perceive every correspondence as formal.
		Ask the person from whom you received this directive if the legalese is being printed at the bottom of all department and university letterhead / stationery, as well.
		Authors agree by posting that any original content other than comments, copyright owned by them, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license for others to use.
	kairosnews.org /node/view/2472 (816 words)

	Language Log: Hey Judge, these instructions are, like, too long or, like, in Latin or something
		If you look at the way information is disseminated to people, everything has to be the length of a bumper sticker.
		Judge Corrigan "says there is a reason why the average person cannot decipher legalese terms rooted in Latin and Norman French.
		Movements to "simplify" legalese are popping up all over the place, and have already made inroads in some states (according to this NPR piece).
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001662.html (561 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Legalese Review
		However, Keane may have a few surprises of his own since he is the ultimate chess master in the game of Legalese.
		My first impression of this film is that James Garner was genius casting as a powerful attorney.
		But while Legalese has potential to be a missed gem with quality performances and production values, and includes a few credible plot twists...
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/legalese.html (1360 words)

	Legalese - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, filmakers, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite the seeming saturation of the American public with legal facts and documents--need anyone be reminded that Kenneth Starr made the front page every newspaper in the continental United States for a good year and a half time period?--Legalese presented a new and rather candidly refreshing look at the law.
		Gina Gershon stars in Legalese as Angela Beale, a beautiful actress who has been accused of murdering her sister's abusive husband.
		Beale claims it was self-defense, the prosecution murder.
	centerstage.net /stumped/Reviews/legalese.shtml (115 words)

	legalese - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		legalese : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		legalese : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=legalese (154 words)

	Dictionary Search
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		legalese was not found in the Texting dictionary.
	www.collins.co.uk /wordexchange/Sections/DicSrchRsult.aspx?word=legalese (130 words)

	Legalese [rec.humor.funny]
		Ferret writes: "By the way there are legal documents in Modern English that require further translation by special interpreters into a form of English everyone can understand.
		Or is legalese a non-English language?" Actually, despite many cognates with English, Legalese is proof that lawyers are descended from the same wondering Asian tribes that eventually colonized the United States accross the Bearing land-bridge.
		Consider the following lingistic evidence, as documented from such authentic sources on Amerind culture as F-Troop and Bonanza (after all, they were only written approximately 75 years after the closing of the American frontier.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/95q1/legalese.html (329 words)

	LEGALESE
		A high-profile murder case throws two legal eagles — one a seasoned pro and the other an idealistic rookie — into the media spotlight in the Turner Network Television (TNT) Original film LEGALESE, starring James Garner, Kathleen Turner, Gina Gershon, Edward Kerr and Mary-Louise Parker, premiering on TNT Sunday, October 4, 1998 at 8 p.m.
		Seduced by the swirl of publicity, the front (Kerr), soon finds himself in the cross-hairs of a relentless tabloid reporter (Turner) whose pursuit forces him to decide whether what he wants to be is worth sacrificing who he is.
		In LEGALESE, director Glenn Jordan shines a satirical light on the state of the media and the high cost of justice.
	alt.tnt.tv /movies/tntoriginals/legalese/info.html (292 words)

	Legalese Consultants -- "Let The Words of My Mouth Be Acceptable In Thine Sight" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Legalese Consultants -- "Let The Words of My Mouth Be Acceptable In Thine Sight"
		Legalese Consultants strives to share the concept that no mountains are too high, and no valleys are too wide, to stop you if you make up in your mind and heart that
		BECOME ALL YOU CAN BE (without joining the army, unless of course you want to) and see that the only that was limiting you all this time, was YOU!!!!
	www.freewebs.com /legalese (147 words)

	legalese: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
		States’ Rights - Denial of Same-Sex Benefits November 6, 2007 For governments which are ostensibly there to safeguard our rights, our lives, and our property, they sure make quite the habit out of telling us what we explicitly cannot do with same.
		Blog posts tagged legalese per day for the past 30 days.
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	www.technorati.com /tag/legalese (549 words)

	Definition of legalese - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=legalese (41 words)

	Legalese Homepage
		This page contains links to the contents of Legalese - the newletter of the Office of General Counsel, the
		District of Columbia Home Rule Act, and a list of Council review provisions.
		To Contact other staff of the Office of the General Counsel.
	www.abfa.com /ogc (163 words)

	Legalese:
		Legalese: I don't own Gundam Wing, I think Sunrise does.
		Relena looked at the package, no return address, she wondered who sent it.
		Visions of Relena with a horde of Prussian blue eyes children danced in his head.
	www.geocities.com /larswr22/queen.htm (9521 words)

	Legalese - Rotten Tomatoes
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Legalese to receive a rating.
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/legalese (313 words)

	MERRY CHRISTMAS (In Legalese): (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, prior to the departure of the Vehicle, Deer and Claus from said House, the party of the first part did hear Claus state and/or exclaim: "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!" Or words to that effect.
		Thanks to Ralph Ostermueller of fvginternational.com for this legalese.
		A very clever piece of work however biased it may be.
	msmvps.com /bradley/archive/2004/12/13/23774.aspx (2877 words)

	Dummies::Understanding Latin Legalese
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		We often refer to the language that lawyers use as legalese because it has so many Latin phrases and words.
		Table 3 lists a few of the less common Latin phrases that you're likely to hear only if you — or someone you know — actually ends up in a court of law.
	www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1435.html (875 words)

	In Brief: "Legalese"
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		The politics of Legalese (Sunday, October 4; 8 to 10 p.m.; TNT) are so retrograde that I am ashamed of myself for having enjoyed it anyway.
		Gina Gershon murders her brother-in-law, with whom she's been having a torrid affair, then claims not only self-defense against rape but also virtuous revenge on behalf of a sister she says was battered.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/3133 (202 words)

	Legalese
		Mumble this to Ginsberg, and she'll overturn Miranda:
		Legalese like this'll get the budding young Horatio
		Interviews on Oprah and a spot on the Today show:
	mysite.verizon.net /vze1q1d3/id36.html (145 words)

	PC911 - Friendly Computer Help In Plain English
		As unpleasant and silly it might seem, I guess every site has to have some sort of disclaimer and other legalese page.
		Please read the following paragraphs carefully to find out about privacy, tracking, copyright and other important issues in regards to this site.
		[Links] [Search] [About PC911] [Link To PC911] [Support PC911] [Legalese]
	www.pcnineoneone.com /legalese.html (1028 words)

	TalkLeft: Let's Make a Deal : The Legalese of PlameGate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TalkLeft: Let's Make a Deal : The Legalese of PlameGate
		Let's Make a Deal : The Legalese of PlameGate
		Reuters is speculating that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald may be offering putative defendants one last chance to make a deal in the Valerie Plame investigation.
	talkleft.com /new_archives/012778.html (2802 words)

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