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Senate passes bill to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes
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If you want to know how to learn Legalese, here's how I did it.
So I'll be honest, it can be worth the time to learn to read this shit but it takes time and effort. It's hard. You're learning a new dialect of English. Most folk I know call it Legalese or Lawriiwook. The Cornell Law Library has a great online, free collection of articles about legal decisions. Go read the important ones: Plessy v. Ferguson, Dred Scott v Sanford, Brown v. Board of Education, hell any decision authored by Learned Hand (what an awesome name, right?), just one a day reading the decision and then their article on it until you feel like you've got a grasp on it. The first week, read the article, then the decision, then the article again. Trust me, it'll help. Keep a legal dictionary nearby. And a latin one.My favorite teacher in B School told me that's what law school was like. Then he saw that I was enjoying it and dissuaded me as kindly and firmly as he could. Asked all the judges and lawyers and sinners in the family and they agreed with him.