For thirty years, I have trained lawyers, translators, and legal professionals in more than fifty countries. And in those thirty years, I have watched brilliant legal minds lose — not on the law, but on the language.
The law was fine. The English failed.
A contract worth millions turned on a single comma. An overtime statute worth millions more turned on a comma that wasn’t there. These are not hypotheticals. These are real cases, real money, real consequences — decided by a word, a comma, a phrase someone didn’t think twice about.
That is why I wrote Million Dollar Words: When One Word Costs Millions. Every chapter is a true case. Every case is a warning. And every warning is a lesson for anyone who writes words that matter — which, in law, is everyone.
The book now has its own page on my website: https://denafalken.com/million-dollar-words.html
One word. Millions of dollars. Read the cases.
