Good post. I agree. Getting rid of legalese isn’t easy; it can be succinct and help unclunkify the sentence.

And it may not be possible entirely. I don’t think any attorney is going to like it, or understand it, if you write “the thing already judged” instead of “res judicata.”

I like all the industry jargons. That’s something that comes up when people assume if you know two languages, you can translate any type of document, to which I usually respond, “wait, you’re fluent in English. Do you speak aeronautics?”