COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A couple months ago, I bought a fixed rate annuity. In the bank, I signed about six or seven documents. Of course, there no time to read more than 15 pages before signing these ...

Researchers at MIT set out to study the origins of impenetrable legal language, especially complex sentences that mix definitions with directives-a hallmark of "legalese." Expecting to find that such ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- It’s no secret that legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, causing headaches for anyone who has had to apply for a mortgage or review any other kind of contract. A ...

ATLANTA -- Back when I first became a lawyer, a buddy of mine asked me to review a contract for him. He was a songwriter. He wanted me to go over a contract he received from a music publishing company ...

An MIT study has found that lawyers can read legalese better than the average person, but that doesn't mean they like it. Reading time 2 minutes Even lawyers aren’t big fans of legal jargon. A new ...

In The Pale King, the novelist David Foster Wallace wrote the following: "To be, in a word, unborable…It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot ...