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RE: It's Your Call: Which E-mail Disclaimer is Best?
Subject:RE: It's Your Call: Which E-mail Disclaimer is Best? From:"Gordon Graham" <gordon -at- gordonandgordon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:03:28 -0400
<SNIP>> Yet corporate counsel says the edited version "reads poorly."
<</SNIP>
Not all lawyers are great writers. Lawyers routinely create weasely-worded
disclaimers and blatantly unreadable notices. The convoluted sentence
structures and unending qualifiers they are trained to use will make any
text less readable.
Often my clients believe the company lawyers have the final word on
everything, or otherwise the sky will cave in and the company will get sued
into the ground. But sometimes we writers need to fight to overrule the
lawyers and put out something that our users or customers can actually
understand. This looks to me like one of those times.
My suggestion is to show both versions around to some of the people who will
actually be seeing it, and ask them what they think. They will undoubtedly
like your version better. It's shorter. Then use that evidence, even from 10
people, to counter the lawyer's very subjective evaluation.
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> Subject: RE: It's Your Call: Which E-mail Disclaimer is Best? (LONG)
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