OK, EFC.  I did not realize that you were talking about your own writing.  I think that you are probably judging your undergraduate writing a bit harshly.  The fact that your professors praised your writing doesn't mean that it was at the level of something that you would write today.    It shouldn't have been.  
I was responding to what I was reading.  I did not know the back story.  Sorry about that -- really.  
You know, perhaps better than I do (because you have probably known more of them), how young lawyers use legal jargon to impress.  So, do undergrads in their particular fields.  :-)