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20Nov2012

Judge gives lawyers editing lessons

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In August this year, a US Judge, Steven D. Merryday at the District Court, Tampa Division, Florida, rejected submissions by lawyers that exceeded the page limit, and in his Order even gave them a lesson in editing – to avoid “redundancy, verbosity, and legalism”!

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W2D2023 Conference

The third WordstoDeeds conference “Legal Translation and Risk” took place on Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 January 2023. It was a really great event!

Please share news of the conference in any way you can – not just to legal translators but to lawyers and anyone with a stake in diligently translated legal documents.

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