Legal English Blog

Welcome to TransLegal’s Legal English Blog

The globalisation of the legal services market fueled by cross-border transactions and international regulatory schemes means increasing numbers of lawyers need to work in English. To meet the ever-increasing demand for Legal English we have launched this blog and a Legal English Dictionary.

Over the past 20 years, since TransLegal was founded, we have seen a tremendous amount of development in the field of Legal English. This development has been particularly rapid over the past few years with the creation of the TOLES and Cambridge ILEC tests, the publishing of a number of Legal English coursebooks and websites, the formation of Legal English teachers associations such as the European Legal English Teachers Association (EULETA), and Legal English conferences such as the Global Legal Skills Conference.

TransLegal would like to continue to contribute to this development through this blog and provide a place where anyone with an interest in Legal English teaching, testing, publishing, materials development, academic research, or learning can find teaching materials, common mistakes, drafting tips and more, and read about developments in Legal English as well as make contact with others in the field.

Our industry is in its early days but is already rich in talented people. We have been privileged to meet Legal English professionals at language schools, universities, publishing houses, and testing centers around the world all of who share a common desire to build this new industry.

We hope you find this blog helpful in your Legal English work and studies and we welcome your contributions and feedback!

The Legal English Blog is produced by TransLegal’s in-house staff of lawyer-linguists and updated several times a week with new articles, features, links and resources.