# Let's simplify legal jargon!

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2010
- Speaker: Alan Siegel
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Law, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_jargon)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Let's simplify legal jargon!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alan_siegel_let_s_simplify_legal_jargon/60b00b70b204), 5 min (TED's player)