Carla Monteiro-Reuter LL.M.

How should you use 'according to' and 'in accordance with' in legal drafting, especially with reference to the German expressions 'gemäß' and 'in Übereinstimmung mit'?

In a world full of talkers, perhaps the greatest gift you can give another person is your undivided attention. Some ideas for transforming our experience of small talk.

The Legal English certificate course for practising lawyers, English Communcation for Legal Practice, will run again in May 2019 at the ZWW, University of Augsburg.

Three critical points that have an impact on a lawyer’s chosen level of formality in written communication.

Two situations in which intercultural difference can cause problems between direct and indirect cultures in legal practice.

The difficulty caused by a rather innocuous-looking little German word: 'Garantie'.

Workarounds for the false friends 'kontrollieren' and 'control'.

Global legal practice: an argument in favour of maintaining the integrity of the local office.