“Legal Writing” presents the key writing skills essential for professionals working in the international legal community. Using authentic documents written by practicing lawyers, the course provides a detailed analysis of over fifty legal texts, ranging from email and memos to contracts and sale purchase agreements. Each unit takes full advantage of modern blended learning pedagogy, including both computer feedback and extensive written[.2] and oral feedback from a qualified TransLegal lawyer-linguist. The online exercises include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, true-false and matching exercises that are designed to help you develop your essential legal writing 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. The written tasks include proofreading, drafting and redrafting following feedback, and are based on model legal documents written in both British and American English.
This course has been designed to meet the specific needs of legal professionals, reflecting the kinds of written tasks typically required of lawyers working in English.
This flexible course provides 25-40 hours of Legal English training in total, including online tasks, writing tasks and feedback.
The Writing Process I
Planning your writing; keeping it short and simple: the KISS method; formality and register; using the right words; modifiers
The Writing Process II
Linking words and phrases; punctuation; words with more than one meaning; legalese; plain English
Writing Emails
An introduction to writing emails in English; internal emails; external emails
Legal Correspondence 1: lawyer-client letters
A client care letter; a notice of assessment of costs; dealing with outstanding bills; writing client advisory letters
Legal Correspondence 2: non-contentious matters
Drafting a confidentiality clause; a power of attorney; a letter of advice
Legal Correspondence 3: contentious matters
A demand letter 1 (US English); a demand letter 2 (UK English); notice of breach of contract; a cease and desist letter
Legal Memoranda
Drafting an informative memo (internal); an external memo (due diligence request); an internal memorandum of law; an external memorandum of law
Drafting Contracts ‘
Types of contract clauses; proofreading contracts; using the Internet to research and draft contract clauses; drafting contract clauses
Drafting a Sale and Purchase Agreement
How to prepare a sale and purchase agreement; a draft sale and purchase agreement; drafting key clauses in sale and purchase agreements; drafting and explaining provisions in a sale and purchase agreement
Pleadings
Drafting a complaint; drafting an answer/response to a complaint; replies to the responses; a legal brief
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