The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary
One question asked of every sentence before it goes to a client: could the reader repeat it, unchanged, to the people she answers to? For a finance director, those people are her board. If you cannot write a clause plainly, you have not yet understood it. Chapter 4 · see Plain language, Jargon
Explained in Chapter 4, Speak Like a Human, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.
The board test is one question, asked of every sentence before it goes to a client: could the reader repeat it, unchanged, to the people she answers to? For a finance director, those people are her board. The test asks whether she could repeat it, not whether she could understand it. Nobody checks understanding, but a board hears every word she repeats.Read Chapter 4, Speak Like a Human →
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