This intensive legal English course is delivered by experienced lawyers and covers the specialist language skills needed by lawyers to be fully effective in the most demanding legal scenarios. Case studies will build vocabulary and communication skills in areas such as business set-up and sale/purchase through to dispute resolution, litigation, intellectual property and employment issues.
Benefits
Communicaid’s English for Lawyers course will provide you with:
- Greater confidence in your ability to interpret and explain contract clauses
- Improved cross-border communication with colleagues and clients
- More professional and effective written style
- Enhanced negotiation skills and techniques
Who should attend
English for Lawyers has been designed for lawyers or company managers with advanced spoken English who need to perfect their specialist legal English skills and draft formal legal documents at near-native speaker level.
Course content
All our Legal English courses are designed to meet the specific needs of our clients and will be determined by personal/organisational requirements, existing level and end objectives. However, core subject areas for Communicaid’s English for Lawyers course will include:
- Accurate use of modern legal English terminology
- Writing clear and concise legal opinions
- Advanced communication skills for negotiation
- Improved practice area-specific vocabulary
- Key language for effective client meetings Approach
English for Lawyers is available as both a tailored and public course. The public English for Lawyers course offers you an excellent opportunity to network and exchange ideas with professionals with similar backgrounds and needs. Please see ‘Course Dates’ for upcoming English for Lawyers public course dates.
Suitable tailored and published materials will be used throughout your course, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and throughout the duration of your course, as part of the diagnostic consultancy process.
English for Lawyers course trainer
For your English for Lawyers course, Communicaid selects from its unrivalled pool of Legal English trainers. Detailed below is a sample profile of a member of Communicaid’s Legal English training team.
DL
Called to the Bar in 1994, DL now combines ongoing legal consultancy with lecturing in Law and Communication at London University and specialist legal English training with Communicaid. He has delivered legal drafting, legal English and communication courses to commercial lawyers worldwide.
DL has provided training for Communicaid for a number of years, working with clients such as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on our extended 8-week course, as well as Norbar, Bank of Austria and a wide range of other organisations on both public and tailored, in-house courses. DL contributes regularly to the development of Communicaid’s legal English course materials. |
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