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Let's simplify legal jargon!

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Alan Siegel |

TED2010

• February 2010

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us.

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us.

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Alan Siegel

Executive, simplicity guru

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A branding expert and one of the leading authorities on business communication, Alan Siegel wants to put plain English into legal documents for government and business.

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Share your own experiences of absurdly complicated situations and join the global call for clarity.