Tristan Wark NO: ‘LAWYERS,’ Kanye West tweeted in 2020. ‘The first thing that changes about record deals is actually lawyers. We need plain English contracts. A lawyers [sic] role is to IMPROVE deals… not charge for contracts we cannot understand or track. Rewrite deals to be understandable from FIRST READ.’ Kanye is no fan of legalese. Legalese is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘language used by lawyers and in legal documents that is difficult for ordinary people to understand’. Whether it is the hundreds of Latin terms that still pervade all legal practice areas (and that most lawyers cannot even pronounce correctly), or the ‘heretofore’, ‘herein’, ‘hereto’, ‘hereof’, ‘hereinafter’, ‘whereas’, and ‘forthwith’, lawyers still often produce contracts that are full of legal jargon and challenging for a non-lawyer to understand.