The Legal Writing course is a 10-unit online program combining text, audio, interactive elements and extensive feedback from a qualified TransLegal lawyer-linguist to help develop the English writing skills required of legal professionals.
A 20-unit, interactive, online course teaching the essential Legal English terminology in the area of the law of corporations and other business organisations, including formation, corporate powers, capitalisation, corporate governance, M&A, and the winding-up of a company.
The “Legal English of Contracts Law” presents key Legal English terminology in short online reading and listening passages. The exercises which follow each reading or listening passage include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, true-false and matching exercises that are designed to help you learn the vocabulary through context, testing and reinforcement. All of your results are stored in a database which you can access at any time to monitor your progress.
The Legal English of Intellectual Property Law is a 15-unit online course combining video, audio and interactive elements. The course contains units in the area of trade mark law, copyright law, patent law, design law, e-commerce, domain name disputes, geographical indications, parallel imports, drafting IP agreements, IP due diligence and the law of the Internet.
This is an introductory course designed to provide the learner with key Legal English vocabulary common to all areas of legal practice. The course teaches 500 terms essential for using English in the practice of law. Following this course, the learner can go on to learn the essential vocabulary in particular fields of law, such as company law, contract law, and other commercial law areas.
PLEAD is a high-quality, 15-unit, ‘blended learning’ Legal English course for lawyers and law students, combining online training with the world’s leading Legal English coursebook. The course provides a basic vocabulary in 10 areas of general commercial law. PLEAD is the result of a unique cooperation between Cambridge University Press, the Boston University School of Law, The Boston University Center for English Language and Orientation Programs and TransLegal.
TransLegal knows that many lawyers want to improve their Legal English but have great difficulty fitting language lessons into their busy schedules. That’s why TransLegal has developed a 6-month online language course consisting of 130 (Monday – Friday) mini-lessons which take less than 10 minutes out of your busy day. The course takes highlights from TransLegal’s Contract Law, Company Law, IP Law and LE500 courses and teaches almost 1,000 Legal English terms essential to lawyers practicing in the area of commercial law.
The Legal English for Legal Support Staff course is a 10-unit online course combining text, audio and interactive elements to help develop the essential vocabulary and language skills required of 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.
This course is designed with the specific needs of LLM students in mind. It teaches over 750 terms essential for successful postgraduate legal studies in English, and also includes invaluable study tips, exercises designed to train your academic legal skills development and reading, writing, listening and speaking practice. The texts are all taken from common law legal systems and provide an indispensable introduction to common law legal systems.
TransLegal’s lesson-of-the-week is a short, weekly video lesson on various topics in Legal English presented by the lawyer-linguists at TransLegal. These video lessons have become a favorite with thousands of lawyers and law students around the world, answering many of the questions about Legal English our lawyer-linguists are frequently asked.
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