Mexico City is where I learned that a serious contract has two mother tongues. For more than forty seminars, professionals have filled my training rooms there — from Mexico, from across Latin America — reading documents that live in Spanish and English at the same time, and that must mean exactly one thing in both.
That is the discipline of Legal-Ease International Inc.: a cross-border document is not finished when it is signed. It is finished when both language versions carry the same obligation, the same deadline, the same number — word for word, in every room the document will ever enter. Does the English say what the Spanish says? Does the clause everyone skimmed change who pays, and when?
For thirty years, I have trained lawyers across more than fifty countries to read contracts the way a surgeon reads an X-ray. Every word matters. A misplaced modifier can cost a client millions. A vague verb can sink a deal.
Mexico City set that standard early and never let it slip: one agreement, two languages, zero drift between them. That is precision, and precision is the whole business.
— Dena Falken, Legal-Ease International Inc.
Books by Dena Falken: Million Dollar Words (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMP9XZT1) · The Global Legal English Masterclass (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMM3FCZ4) · Author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/denafalken.com · Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260938774
