From credit card agreements to offers of employment, leases, and business agreements, contracts are a common part of the modern world. While you do not need to be an attorney to use or even create a ...

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A contract is a legal agreement between parties that stipulates the terms and conditions each party agrees to carry out in exchange for money or other compensation. In business settings, contracts for ...

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In the spirit of our recent plain English posts, and as requested by readers, we are publishing the following new glossary of Supreme Court terms, which defines the legal terminology we regularly use ...

1L/2L/3L: First-year law student, second-year law student, and third-year law student. Black Letter Law: Generally accepted legal principles and rules of law. Case Brief: The summary of a case, ...

As a group, we firefighters enjoy a good deal of community support, both locally and nationally. The public that we protect and serve views us as this nation’s bravest. Back when I started to drive ...

We all want to pronounce things correctly and use correct terminology and it can be embarrassing when we do not. On television, anchors, correspondents and pundits have to pronounce a lot of tricky ...

In courtrooms and other legal settings, accurate documentation is critical. Every detail in a fast-paced lawsuit requires capturing for future reference. But while transcription and dictation are both ...