Big Law Jargon: A Primer

Like the entertainment industry and the trade magazine Variety, with its slanguage, the legal media and business of law have their own language. It is a language that can be confusing to outsiders, and even to law students and lawyers who have never practiced at a large firm. In our latest video essay, Big Law Business decodes the special language of big law with a short paragraph that we wrote to utilize 14 terms with special meanings. The paragraph is merely an example, any resemblance to actual law firms, or actual events is purely coincidental. Do you have a story you’d like to share with Big Law Business about jargon? A term you wish we’d included, like Swiss verein? Drop us a line at [e-mail] or tweet at us at @BigLawBiz.
Video by Josh Block
@JoshBlockNYC

[@starbury64]

Awesome video. Now I know what terms to look forward to after law school!

[@MrRooibos123]

I got about half of them.