Legal Language and Business Communication

This book discusses the proper use of legal language in business communication. While communicating, a business leader has to bear in mind the relevant legal framework, and be sure to never violate it. However, legal language in itself can be so complex and difficult that it is often unclear as to what meaning can be ascribed to different words and phrases used in a particular context. Also, while it's easy to say that there are certain limits to the law, those limits are not readily visible to the uninitiated; occasionally, even experts flounder. Exploring precisely these topics, the book will be of interest to students of business, law, and business communication; managers; lawyers; researchers; practitioners; and general readers alike.



Anurag K. Agarwal, a faculty member at the IIM Ahmedabad, studied at Harvard Law School and is the first recipient of the Marti Mannariah Gurunath Outstanding Teacher Award at the IIMA. His research, teaching and consulting interests include business law, leadership, infrastructure, contracts & arbitration, intellectual property, and negotiation. He has chaired various executive education programmes at the IIMA and authored four books - Business Law for Managers: Kaleidoscopic Tales (2018), Business Leadership and Law (2017), Contracts and Arbitration for Managers (2016), and Business and Intellectual Property (2010). Having begun his career as a lawyer and practised in India for over ten years, he currently also writes a weekly column, 'Lawfully Yours', for the DNA, Ahmedabad.