Author: Rob

Lexacom Skype course

A few weeks back, I did one of David Hutchins’s courses for legal translators. David is a solicitor who gives law courses of all...

Workshop at METM16

I’m very pleased to be taking part in the METM conference again this year. This time I’ll be doing a pre-conference workshop on translating...

Learn legalese and then forget it

In his book, Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner says law students should learn legalese and then learn not use it: When...

Usable, useful and understandable

I think translations should be usable, useful and understandable. Usable basically means fit for purpose. The right type of translation for a given situation...