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OP The Queen's Counsel cartoon in The Times occasionally pokes fun at the linguistic style of lawyers in a way that is stereotypical, generalised... and very funny.
In this week's edition, a client says to his solicitor, "Now, Richard, when I asked you to review my company's employment contracts, I asked you to make them shorter. But you lawyers always have to complicate everything! You've added twelve new clauses!"
"So what?" Richard replies. "It's still shorter."
"Er... how?"
"Fewer pages. I shrunk the typeface."
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Also in The Times was a letter from Paul McGrath of London. He wrote to share a solicitor's letter which said, "We apologise for the typical graphical error in our previous correspondence."
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