Tip of the Tongue

  Traditionally, legal language has two purposes: to provide a precise term and to prevent the uninitiated from understanding. The Plain Lan...

  L ast week, I participated in an online conference presented by ILETA (International Legal English Trainers’ Academy) and organized by Sof...

  [minefield warning*] T he attitude of many freelancers staring at a long agency agreements with small print is either to consider it a “mi...

  [Courthouse*] I had the pleasure of participating this last week in the ILLA hybrid conference from Bergamo, Italy focusing on the digitiz...

As a legal translator, I am not intimidated by legal language, but I recognized that even most native speakers regard the language of Shak...