Is it decorous to refer to mainstays (people recurring in a legal document) by abbreviations?
<p>Presume that these mainstays (even if their names are short) can all be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe" rel="nofollow noreferrer">named publicly</a>. </p>

<p>I fancy referring to them only with my abbreviations that I introduce on the first page, to save space and avoid typos, like for long surnames. </p>

<p>E.g., I'd state (on the first page), before solely using thereafter, my abbreviations of the 4 counterparties (presume this) as: JK for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%C5%A1_Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Leoš Janáček</a> (not LJ; this already means Lord Justice of Appeal), ZK for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Kod%C3%A1ly" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zoltán Kodály</a>, GK for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kurt%C3%A1g" rel="nofollow noreferrer">György Kurtág</a>, and BM for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohuslav_Martin%C5%AF" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bohuslav Martinů</a>. </p>

<p>No. In formal writing, you refer to people by name. After you use their full name you can just use their last name in future references, but you don't refer to them by their initials. Even in informal writing, you normally don't use initials unless the person is commonly known by their initials (e.g. JFK) or unless you're using shorthand.</p>

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