Thanks to Minnesota Lawyer, judges (and lawyers) might be able to write better:

Legal writing guru Brian Wagner has a list of words or phrases all lawyers should do away with in their writing immediately.  He calls it his “verbal blacklist” and there are some familiar ones. Thankfully, “said”–the most useless word of all, makes the list.

said   As the past tense of say, this word is fine. As a fancy-pants substitute for the (such as said agreement), it isn’t fine at all. It’s foolish. It doesn’t add one iota of precision. It makes you sound like a parody of law-talk.

and/or   Is it a word? Is it a phrase? American and British courts have held that and/or is not part of the English language. The Illinois Appellate Court called it a “freakish fad” and an “accuracy-destroying symbol.” The New Mexico Supreme Court declared it a “meaningless symbol.” The Wisconsin Supreme Court denounced it as “that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity.” More recently, the Supreme Court of Kentucky called it a “much-condemned conjunctive-disjunctive crutch of sloppy thinkers.” Now if Apple can just had the list of words to the spell check function on judge’s computers there will be far more readable orders.