Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 80: Lessons from Learning a New Language that Apply to Bar Study
On June 26, 2024, the Province of Québec released the long-awaited final amendments to the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business (Regulation), which amend multiple French-language requirements, including...more
In today’s globalized landscape, legal translation is often necessary for everything from courtroom proceedings to contract negotiations. However, legal translation goes beyond just changing words from one language to...more
Few document services reach stakes as significant as legal translation does. As a field that necessarily hyper-focuses on specific word choice, meanings, precedents, and more, dotting i’s and crossing t’s rarely matters as...more
The increasing globalization of business, through Internet-based commerce and the activities of multinational corporations, has made it more likely than ever that litigators in U.S. courts will be confronted with documents...more
During a keynote speech at a conference at Seattle University School of Law in early March, Rachel Rossi, director of the Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice, proclaimed that “Access to justice means language...more
In a recent decision, a New York federal court rejected a former employee’s claims that permitting employees to speak only Japanese in business meetings, where individuals who do not speak Japanese are present and are without...more
Today, in the United States, the number of people who speak Spanish or a language other than English is growing rapidly. According to the United States Census, about 68 million people do not speak English at home....more
2023 was an active year in Canadian trademark law. Canadian Courts addressed a wide range of issues, from licensing to comparative advertising to co-branding. Notable changes also emerged from the Canadian Trademarks...more
The Indonesian Supreme Court recently issued its formal view that addresses concerns of market pertaining to the interpretation of the statutory requirement for a Bahasa Indonesia version of any agreement made involving an...more
The basic function of a trademark is to enable consumers to identify goods and their source. When the disputed trademark is a foreign language sign, the people's court shall, based on the common understanding of the relevant...more
Our Doing Business in Québec guide provides an overview of the legal framework governing Canadian business operations in the province of Québec. This guide provides up-to-date information about the following topics: •...more
On 18 October 2023, the President of the Court of First Instance of the UPC issued an order changing the procedural language from Dutch to English (the language of the patent at issue). The Court weighed the interests of...more
BALTIMORE — AI to Help Baltimore Agencies Bridge Language Gaps- By year’s end, the City of Baltimore will be deploying a new AI-backed service to help 911 dispatchers communicate with callers in their native language...more
In-depth merger control reviews are intense and time-pressured matters. As a result, merging companies and their advisors are challenged to meet regulators’ ever-growing demands for internal documents. When a regulator...more
When a person hears of an incident, the common understanding is that it happened locally, or nationally. However, there are situations that encompass land and water borders, affecting people from different locations and...more
In this webinar, our eDiscovery experts, Karim Osman & Matthijs Luisman will outline some best practices on how to efficiently perform document review in foreign languages using intuitive eDiscovery solutions. Here's what you...more
The Federal Court recently had occasion to revisit the issue of confusion between foreign-language trademarks involving the use of Chinese characters in Canada. ...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to consumers protected by nondiscrimination and military protection laws. The CFPB has historically been particularly active with respect to...more
Effective January 1, 2023, AB 2068 provides that employers posting a Cal/OSHA citation, special order or action must post the Cal/OSHA English version of the notice, along with multiple language versions of the notification...more
We live in a global environment where commercial disputes, white-collar crime, and antitrust issues frequently cross international borders. There are thousands of non-English e-discovery litigations and investigations every...more
The U.S. court system has long recognized the difficulty with equal access to justice when an individual with limited English proficiency appears in a U.S. court. Therefore, courts across the country now require that...more
Cross-border M&A deals reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021. Many of these transactions were subjected to merger clearance proceedings in the US and/or abroad. As a result, an unprecedented number of US second...more
This past May, the Quebec government adopted Bill 96, with the intention of ultimately strengthening the Quebec language laws and preserving the French language. Although businesses with more than 50 employees were already...more
On Aug. 4, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Care and Activities (Proposed Rule), to revise its regulations pertaining to Section 1557 of the...more
In a 2014 TED Talk “The Power of Listening,” William Ury posed a simple question that is fundamental to negotiation and all human interaction, “if a person speaks … and no one listens, is that really communication?”1 He...more