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- n a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
- Critics say contracts today, with their ever shifting terms and complex legalese, have helped customers get into more debt than they bargained for.
- The re-opened probe may facilitate their formal recognition as repression victims or political rehabilitation, to put in Russian legalese.
- Although the jury convicted the entire firm, it focused the blame on a single person, Andersen's Chicago-based lawyer Nancy Temple, who, according to the legalese, played the .