Here is an irony. If most contracts were rewritten in plain Spanish, they would be understood by a higher portion of the general US public than the current leg

Here is an irony. If most contracts were rewritten in plain Spanish, they would be understood by a higher portion of the general US public than the current legalese! If you believe the statistics on literacy and multi-lingualism, it's a tossup as to whether Chinese or legalese is more widely understood.