Transform Your Legal Documents with Plain English
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Get Assessment“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
Mark Cohen's HOW TO DRAFT A BAD CONTRACT is “Simply Brilliant.”
“Mark Cohen is a gifted writer and editor with an unmatched talent for cutting excess words, eliminating jargon, and simplifying complex concepts. InterNACHI is proud to be at the forefront of the plain English movement. Our 25000 members love the plain English agreements Mark created for them to use with their clients and the clients appreciate documents that are concise and easy to understand.”
Mark Can Improve Your:
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Contracts
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Leases
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Corporate documents
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Marketing materials
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Motions, responses, and replies
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Pleadings
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Letters
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Petitions
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Briefs
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Website language
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Forms
Introduction
About Mark: A gifted writer and editor with a gift for cutting excess words and simplifying complex concepts, Mark’s passion is using plain English over “Legalese.” Mark has over forty years of experience as a lawyer and has seen firsthand how better drafting improves customer relations, reduces the risk of disputes, and makes documents more persuasive.
In addition to teaching advanced legal writing at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Mark wrote two mysteries published by a subsidiary of Time-Warner. His first mystery, The Fractal Murders, was a BookSense selection. His non-legal articles have appeared in magazines such as Modern Dad, Camping & RV, and Inside Kung Fu.
Mark’s passion is improving documents by replacing Legalese with plain English. Plain English is writing that is clear, concise, and easily understood by the target audience. Mark now focuses much of his time on helping businesses, organizations, and lawyers improve their documents.
Expertise in Plain English
The distinction between litigation and transactional work is often artificial. Litigation arising out of transactions is almost always the result of poor drafting, insufficient investigation, or an incomplete negotiation. Usually the document contained an ambiguity, failed to define a term, contained inconsistent provisions, or failed to address an important issue altogether.
A gifted writer with a talent for simplifying complex concepts, Mark's passion is using improving documents by replacing Legalese with plain English. Plain English is writing that is clear, concise, and easily understood by the target audience.
“Plain English lowers costs, improves productivity, increases credibility and reduces misunderstandings.”