Legal Support Staff

As well as work on terminology, grammar, and reading and listening skills, the course also includes tasks designed to train letter writing skills, dealing with colleagues and clients and the differences between British and American English. The course contains units in the areas of real property law, conducting a due diligence, litigation and alternate dispute resolution, criminal law, company formation, contract law, wills and probate, drafting a sale and purchase agreement, commercial agency and billing and client care. “Legal English for Legal Support Staff” presents key Legal English terminology, skills and grammar work in short online reading and listening passages. The exercises that follow each reading or listening passage include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, true-false and matching exercises that are designed to help you develop your essential language vocabulary and skills through context, testing and reinforcement. All of your results are stored in a database that you can access at any time to monitor your progress. This course has been designed to meet the specific needs of legal support staff, and reflects the kinds of tasks typically required of legal secretaries and paralegals.

This flexible course provides at least 15 hours of Legal English training in total. We appreciate how busy support staff can be, so have designed the course so that it can be taken in ten-minute chunks (two tasks a day) providing 20 weeks of essential Legal English exercises.

Unit 1
Telephone English and meeting a client

Unit 2
Company law language and writing & proofreading

Unit 3
The language of litigation

Unit 4
The language of criminal proceedings

Unit 5
The language of professional emails and advising a client on the progress of a case

Unit 6
The language of contracts and discussing a deal

Unit7
The vocabulary of wills and estates

Unit 8
The duties of a transactional paralegal and sale & purchase language

Unit 9
Legal correspondence exercises

Unit 10
Billing and client care