It sucks though, that the law is written in such a way, that most people are better off not reading it themselves, but getting an expert. It says something about our laws.
That's very deliberate to keep people like the one you're answering to in very profitable business.
I work in law and tech -- I don't find reading legislation any more difficult than reading tech documents, probably less so. Needing expertise to understand a field seems expected.
Contracts however, yeah, they're often written to be intractable (but they can also have very necessary complexity).