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Burden of proof - bouncing back and forth

Funny how often in a lawsuit one party makes an allegation which is challenged by the other party, then comes a dispute as to which...

From knowing a legal term to writing top-end legal text

Reading a dictionary may give you the impression that terms exist alone, in isolation, barely related to anything but their meaning...

Maybe ... maybe not

These extremes of likelihood are also present in legal English, besides general English. Based on 16 years of analysing legal texts, I...

Acting as Don Quixote before the court?

I have always wondered when looking up terms in dictionaries and found a single term as an equivalent for the term sought, e.g. pro se:...

Synonyms and antonyms in legal English

You can say "Oh, come on, how could legal terms have synonyms and antonyms? Tell me then a synonym for the term ”foreclosure”, or an...

A Single Legal Term - with two opposing meanings

It is absolutely okay that a number of English words have more than one meaning (e.g. watch). It is also absolutely okay that a number of...

So how have native professionals learnt legal English in the first place?

It is always a good idea to learn from those we regard as top-end experts in our profession. Knowing how they have learnt legal English...

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With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...