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Salomón Asmar Soto – [email protected] Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Due to its importance and relevance in legal matters, there are many readers who advocate making them simpler
How many times have you said that you do not understand the document written by a lawyer? Or, on the contrary, how many times have you needed to call a lawyer to explain a legal document to you?
Legal writing is quite a topic, since this type of writings from lawyers can become confusing, long and full of a large number of disused words that turn them into communicatively ineffective pieces. This is even more complicated when, in the midst of an emergency, people must access a text that can be indecipherable.
In those cases, when facing this knowledge barrier, the reader must not only make a great effort to understand the content, but can often sign or make decisions without being well informed. Legal language is defined as the set of terms and expressions that denote principles, preconceptions and rules to which human relations are subjected throughout civil society. Although necessary, due to its importance and relevance in legal matters, there are many who advocate making them simpler.
This is the reason why tomorrow, March 10, at 10:00 am, the LR Chair: “How to write without archaic words for lawyers” will be held, with the aim of explaining how legal texts can be more efficient without losing the essence and avoiding these mistakes.
Luis Guillermo Vélez Cabrera, a lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes, with a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Ipade Business School, has proposed several of these errors in his book ‘Manual of legal writing’ , which will also be received by the attendees in their web version.
Vélez Cabrera was an advisor to the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Organization and was a founding partner of Urdaneta, Vélez, Pearl and Abdallah Abogados. He was Vice Minister of National Defense (1994-1995), Superintendent of Societies, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic and director of the National Agency for Legal Defense of the State.
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