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To: Snowshoe who wrote (8067)	9/1/2001 4:04:27 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

No thereof? Try again, because to be legalese must have a thereof somewhere in the sentence!

To: Snowshoe who wrote (8067)	9/1/2001 1:23:34 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Depends on the document. The "whereas" stuff is sort of silly, I agree. Around here, the only place I see "whereas" clauses anymore is Property Settlement Agreements between spouses that are getting divorces, but the agreements work fine without them. I think a lot of lawyers keep doing things the old way because they are afraid that something bad will happen if they don't. I've worked with one lawyer who absolutely freaked at the idea of filing paper in court that didn't have a ruled line down the left hand side of the page - he was sure that you just couldn't do it, that the court wouldn't take it. I worked with another lawyer who insisted that every Bill of Complaint for divorce have a notarized affidavit by the Complainant, even though the statute hasn't required it for years. They learn it one way in law school and they never change. In the meantime, around here the judges for the most part are far more advanced in their use of technology than the ordinary lawyer. That's because they know how to think. Not everyone knows how to think, you know. But to get back to your point, what about those agreements that you have to click "agree" to, when you join a website or buy software? Those are usually very long and complicated, but don't you think they try as hard as they can to make them readable? I often read them and think, well, I couldn't really make it any simpler and say what needed to be said.