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	{{a\|pe\|}}Some say that lawyers ''deliberately'' avoid writing clearly: [[legalese]] protects their privileged position, keeping non-specialists out, and bamboozling their customers into believing they need legal advice to progress the simplest commercial opportunities. It means you need lawyers to ''start'' the legal contract, and every time you need to change it.		{{a\|plainenglish\|}}Some say that lawyers ''deliberately'' avoid writing clearly: [[legalese]] protects their privileged position, keeping non-specialists out, and bamboozling their customers into believing they need legal advice to progress the simplest commercial opportunities. It means you need lawyers to ''start'' the legal contract, and every time you need to change it.

	But it's more complicated than that. True, some practitioners don’t use plain English because they ''can’t''. But for most, legalese arises as an unwanted by product of advising and negotiating legal agreements.		But it's more complicated than that. True, some practitioners don’t use plain English because they ''can’t''. But for most, legalese arises as an unwanted by product of advising and negotiating legal agreements.