“Dena Falken Trains Foreign Law Professionals How to Talk the ‘Legal Talk'” — that is how The Ritz Herald headlined its profile of Dena Falken and Legal-Ease International Inc., a portrait of a training practice that has spent three decades teaching lawyers, judges, and translators around the world to work in precise, professional English.
The profile follows the same thread as the coverage in The Hear Up — “Dena Falken, Founder of Legal-Ease International, Trains Foreign Professionals in ‘Legal Talk'” — which opens in Mexico City, where Falken has run seminars for decades: twenty international lawyers in the room, and the day’s lesson, contracts. BizTech Weekly took the story up in interview form — “Legal Talk: An Interview with Legal-Ease International’s Dena Falken” — tracing how one observation, that brilliant legal minds outside the United States were being held back by language alone, became a training organization working in more than fifty countries.
The Ritz Herald profile itself is here: “Dena Falken Trains Foreign Law Professionals How to Talk the ‘Legal Talk'” (The Ritz Herald, October 12, 2021).
Coverage of the company’s work has also followed its humanitarian projects. In November 2023, Legal-Ease International Inc. joined Takach Paper International in “Gift of Artistic Expression” — an initiative that shipped high-quality paper, crayons, and coloring books to evacuated communities in Israel after the October 7 attacks, for children and adults in kibbutzim hosting evacuees from communities near the Gaza Strip.
What the coverage keeps returning to is the founding premise of Legal-Ease International Inc.: legal expertise should never be limited by language. The seminars Falken built — from Mexico City to Panama, from lecture halls to a daily legal-English program that reaches students by phone — exist to close exactly that gap, one word at a time.
Dena Falken — trader, entrepreneur, Berkshire Hathaway investor; founder of Legal-Ease International Inc. J.D., Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America; B.A. in Law and Society, American University.
Author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/denafalken.com — Million Dollar Words: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMP9XZT1 — The Global Legal English Masterclass: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMM3FCZ4 — Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260938774
