Chile sells copper to the world, and the world signs in English. Every shipment that leaves a Chilean port travels twice: once as metal, and once as language — a contract written in two tongues, priced in a currency of exact words.
In Santiago training rooms, Dena Falken of Legal-Ease International Inc. works with the professionals who draft those documents. A payment clause read two ways is two different deals. A delivery term left vague in Spanish does not become clearer in English. Precision is not a style there. It is the cargo.
Her method is the one she has carried across more than fifty countries: slow the sentence down, find the word that carries the money, and make it carry only what the parties meant. Mining executives, port operators, banks, and exporters — in Chile, every sector signs across a language line, and every signature deserves a text that says one thing only.
Chile understands natural resources. It guards its copper, its lithium, its long Pacific coast. The training adds one more resource to the list: the exact word, read exactly, by professionals trained to see what a clause will do before it does it.
— Dena Falken, Legal-Ease International Inc.
Books by Dena Falken:
Million Dollar Words: When One Word Costs Millions
The Global Legal English Masterclass: Essential Terminology for Cross-Border Documents
Author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/denafalken.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260938774
