By Germán Morales (January 7, 2021, 8:32 AM EST) -- At 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, a senior partner of a law firm in Toronto received a call from the general counsel (GC) of one of her clients based in Australia. During the call, the GC explained in detail a strategic M&A opportunity that had just emerged. It involved the acquisition of a corporation with significant assets in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Russia, India and eight countries in Latin America. As the chief legal officer of the corporation, she would manage the efforts of her team internally but needed the assistance from her external counsel with the proposed transaction. Legalese was not only absent in the call, but also disdained. Modern international legal counsel speak business in plain English and assume the use of technology in legal matters....