Words and phrases on the list include:
- And/or
- Herein
- Deem
- Know all men by these presents
- Provided that
- Pursuant to
- Said
- Same
- Shall
- Such
- Witnesseth
He advises all lawyers to “Learn them and ax them.”
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A List of Words No Lawyer Should Ever Use
In this piece for the ABA Journal, Bryan Garner, the editor-in-chief of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of bestselling books on how to craft persuasive legal prose, provides a “verbal blacklist” for attorneys—“a simple list of words that do nothing but blemish the documents that contain them.”
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