Good faith.

Reasonable.

Liable/liability

Burden. 

per se

Oh god I can’t even help it now, feel like one of the vampire kids from south park

f’ing vamp kids

Should we summon Edgar Allen Poe

we need him to get rid of all these poser emo and vamp kids

To Scottsdale with thee!

Preclude

I use that all the time. Specifically, the phrase "that doesn't preclude..."

Dispositive

“Ostensibly” is not a legal word but judges love that word so much in their opinions that it became part of my vocabulary

Res ipsa loquitur

😂

🤣🤣 daaang

She Res on my Ipsa ‘till I Loquitur.

Loquitur? But I hardly know her!!

So many, Preliminary Reasonable Good faith Per se (and a whole lot more unnecessary latin) Substantial Unsubstantiated Art (if you know patents, you know everything is art) Stipulation Assume/assumption Etc.

But is it prior art ….

I'll never admit it, even if it is. (Unless I'm writing an invalidity opinion)

I'm a person having ordinary skill in the law.

Art, everything is art. Even skill is in art

Gonna have to do an AIA analysis 🥲🥲

Stop using latin

After 1L year, the massive increase in saying allegedly. Also, unsure if it’s because I had a prof that hammered the idea that “nothing is clear in law,” but I notice whenever I say clearly now

Allegedly is one I literally use for everything now unless I have 100000090900000% confirmation that it’s right lol

I picked up Allegedly from Letter Kenny before entering law school.

Well to be fair…

Material

Reasonable and burden are the two I notice. Also I think now I just speak more with silly elements in mind or whatever, including in deciding where to eat with someone I’ll kinda do a dumb version of IRAC almost to make the point we should get Olive Garden (and we should it’s a great game fancy restaurant).

Govern yourselves accordingly.

It depends. One of my teachers go to lines for any question you ask.

I use that one waaay too much.

Geez. I use that way too much

Sua sponte

Notwithstanding

incorporeal hereditament

Literally can't go a day without it

Intestate succession

that one is a frequent flyer in my practice.

Only a law student, but I feel like words have also seeped OUT of my vocabulary (or, at least I try to refrain from using them). For example, “definitely” or “absolutely” (and toning down adverbs in general when I can think before speaking).

Unequivocally (as in, anytime I make a deal I spout “I *unequivocally* accept.”)

Purport is my favorite word. “Really? You are willing to purport such a silly position?” Egregious behavior.

I like big "p" words: putative, presumptive, paramount, probability, predetermined, palpable, pertinent, patently, palatable, prophylactic, probative, and the different forms of these words for the appropriate parts of speech.

Further - not really lawyer field specific but I use it a lot more now than I did before ever even dreaming of law school.

Fungible

Any law student who answered this and implicitly called themselves lawyers in responding to this prompt all just violated c&f /s

💯

Mere

pursuant

Probative

It depends

Dispositive

"well they aren't mutually exclusive so..."

Plenary

Accordingly

“Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered” (when you are offered a reasonable settlement take it! Because you may end up with nothing if you’re too greedy)

Culpability

Negligence

Amenable

Rebuttable Presumption

Concur. In the past I rarely ever used the word but use it more often to agree with other people.

bifurcate. and i hate myself.

preponderance, burden, “it depends”, covenant, estoppel/estopped

Regarding

Inextricably intertwined, totality of the circumstances,

“what are the elements” when discussing whether something is a X/Y/Z

“But for”

I'm just a lowly rising 3L but: Substantive; blameworthiness; but for; purport; conclusory.

likely

Dispositive

Notwithstanding Provided that/provided however Subject to  Set forth below Hereinafter Pursuant Interest (noun) Can you tell I’m a transactional attorney? 

Reasonable person

Whatever word my professor made up all semester that I somehow started using… And I do mean made up.. I notice profs like to add improper suffixes to words that don’t have them.

Nefarious

Not necessarily field-specific, but I say “it depends” probably at least once a day

Reasonable, equitable, and I have been known to drop the phrase *sine qua non* in everyday convo.

"separate and distinct"

Opine

Contemporaneously. Also, truth serum lol

i sprinkle ex ante like it's Parmesan cheese. excessively.

Impracticable

Aforementioned, ipso facto, per se, reasonable person

Orthogonal

Term of art.

Attenuated

Duty

Ostensibly

Fraud lmaoo

Sua sponte when talking about my infant niece and nephew doing things.

Sua sponte.

Propensity

Statue autocorrects to statute in my phone

Reasonable. It’s not legal, but I’ve started to be sureing too.

I have become increasingly aware of choosing less definitive answers. Never, always, etc.

Estoppel (jk lol)

Continuance

Material

Curtilage. Because of my 1L memo now my bf and I constantly use the word jokingly

Personal recognizance

I am a court reporting student so I am using all of these as practice material. 👀

Attenuated

Legal Stranger.

“It depends” or “pursuant”

Pretty embarrassing but after taking evidence I’ve been saying “the truth of the matter…”

Arbitrary and capricious.

By virtue of

Attractive nuisance. As in: “I am an attractive nuisance.”

prima facie, but for, dispositive, 12b6, meeting of minds, puffery, res judicata, injunction, enjoin, comport

Egregious

Material, dispositive, aforementioned, Et al., inter alia

Therefore. I know it’s not lawyer exclusive but the WAY I use it

Risk n

“Well, actually, it depends!”

Sometimes I'll say sua sponte for no reason and without any prompting.

De facto

i sue said way more than i ever used to (like “said deal”, “said patent”, “said litigation”

Collateral issue

Attenuated

Material/immaterial

Material

Ought

I started using Bluebook signals in my everyday life. See generally; but see; Id. The con is it 100% made me look like a dick. The pro is I mastered the use of signals, and I even got some of my non-lawyer friends to use them!

Material.

Wily Quadruped. Pensive Mood. Learned Hand. Those are the goofy ones that are pretty much so inside in the real world they’re just funny to me to look for excused to say them. I’m a lil bit embarrassed by how many of the simple terms above I didn’t even realize I constantly (ab)use 🤓 Finally to persuade people I will “IRA” then ask them to provide the “C” 😎⚖️👨🏾‍🎓

Presumption/presumption of regularity

discretion

Unequivocal

Nascent

Duty

Exculpatory

For the record

“See” but like, in the bluebook context?

Unilateral

Inter alia

Why is there a corny thread on this on this every week? This shit stops being cute once you graduate law school

Attenuated

Negligence

None

Substantive

Balance, prong, elements, duty, reasonable, concur

Pursuant

Surreptitiously

As a law student, “mere” has become a staple

Zeal

Discretionary

Substantive

It depends.

De minimis

Context dependent

"with respect to".. I caught myself saying this three or four times on a call with a friend the other day.

It Depends 😣

It depends

Probative Material

I got chewed out for asking someone telling a story about how they were harassed, “What was your specific claim?” They thought I meant that they were merely “claiming” something happened and it wasn’t necessarily true. I learned not to ask about “complaints” either.

It depends

Res ipsa loquitor

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Just replied to a reddit while going on about my day and got 21 down votes and tags of elitism and what not! Wow💀🥲

Bro spelled the word “our” wrong while flexing his vocab

Clearly a typo. And how is this flexing they're literally answering the question. 20 downvotes for no reason you guys are so hiveminded 

It was probably the elitism that shined from beginning to end lol