Ask HN: Hints for Plain Language Legal?
I've got scores of pages of legal, across multiple documents for this early stage project. It's quite hard to decipher. I understand boilerplate is part of a lot of these things - as well as some project specific definitions. Of course I've talked to council about these, I'm informed. My partners have proper council as well. But we keep sorting through all these docs, sorting numbers, making sure it's in the proper places and all that.
Why don't these things come with cover letter or executive summary on the front - like one sentence bullet points to summarise the rest of the document.
Then I'd have something to understand; my council could verify with the long-form details. Couldn't all the long-form documents references points on the short-form?
Like: "Compensation will be $200k/yr[1]"
And the Long form could reference [1] all over the place? Like variables?
Does this exist? Are there any good places to get some plain language legal documents?