Translations and Confusions on Track

Summer is gone and Christmas is coming! Here in Nürnberg we can already smell the lebkuchen being made. But before you prepare to get lost in the Advent and glühwein, there is an autumnal tradition to attend to:

NEW: Update 2018 – Masterclass on Contracts in English
9 – 10 November, Hotel Victoria, Nürnberg

The Law and Nature
Twitters that Really Count

New Seminar Dates

German law can be like painting by numbers; but who has the colour code? Mr Spock?

Changes in the law are impacting liability in all areas of our daily life. Here is the first draft of a warning that perhaps could be used on Easter eggs in the future:

The devil may be in the (grammatical) detail, but now it may seem that the angel of common sense is coming to assist contract law.

After many, many years (you could even say decades) of some English courts interpreting liability clauses …

Seminars and Frustration…

Just in case you’d finally started feeling comfortable using FIDIC standard “Suite of Contracts” from 1999 …

No sooner have Christmas and the New Year flown past than the seminar season is upon us. This year, in response to several requests, I am starting the year off with a new specialist seminar on legal drafting skills.

It is called “Legal and Contract Drafting in English” and will be held from 2-3 March 2018 in Nürnberg. We will be working in a small group and so there’s plenty of time to ask questions and …