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Resumen: In 1995 I left the law firm where I had practiced corporate law for five years and started a company specializing in legal translation. In my final months of practicing law, I prepared myself for my new career as a translator by collecting all the bilingual Spanish legal dictionaries that are readily available in the United States: Diccionario de términos jurídicos by Alcaraz Varó/Hughes (from Spain), the Butterworths Spanish Legal Dictionary by Cabanellas/Hoague (from Argentina), I and the Diccionario bilingüe de terminología jurídica by Mazzucco/Maranghello (also from Argentina). Armed with this small but ostensibly complete collection, I began accepting my first large translation assignments. The first three jobs to come my way were a lawsuit against a government agency in Colombia, a case involving the bankruptcy of a financial institution in Venezuela, and the documentation to establish a joint venture in Chile. Any notion that my dictionary collection might be complete was quickly dispelled: 1 soon discovered that lawyers in each of these three countries used a great deal of country-specific legal terminology that is nowhere to be found in any of the three dictionaries from Spain and Argentina.

Resumen: Legal English is conservative, formal, syntactically complex and often archaic, with obscure expressions that hardly occur in the language at large. Of course, all professions have their own jargon. But, in recent times, lawyers have tried to make their profession less mysterious. With this background information and within the framework of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and a passing reference to plain English campaigns, this paper will explore the intricacies of "legalese" by analyzing several extracts (from wills, statutes...) which will help Ilústrate the technical terminology of the subject in hand. Such key features of written legal language as: manner, typography and layout, lexis and grammar, will be especially highlighted. Other text segments will also be exploited, drawn from recently published newspa-per and magazine articles, commonly read by native speakers, and, generally packed with legal terms and phrases that the layman, more often than not comes across when reading ,them. Finally, this talk will be supplemented with one or two excerpts from lively cassette material to give participants/students extra exposure to the language of the law, show them how this register functions and develop their lis-tening skills and pronunciation.