The Fight to Strike Legalese

The Fight to Strike Legalese
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What is legalese? The New Oxford Dictionary defines it as “the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand.”

Matthew Mangino
Matthew Mangino
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Matthew T. Mangino is of counsel with Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly and George, P.C. Mangino is the former district attorney of Lawrence County, Pa., and spent a six-year term on the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. He is also an adjunct professor at Thiel College, a Creator columnist, and author of “The Executioner's Toll, 2010.”