Matching legalese with plain English meanings
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Legal Writing
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Planning your writing
- Planning what to write
- The next step in the process, brainstorming
- Writing a draft
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The KISS method
- Understanding legalese
- Rewriting using the KISS principle
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Formality and register
- Levels of formality
- Rewriting in the appropriate register
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Linking words and phrases
- Linking words and phrases: writing cohesively
- Using linking words to complete a letter
- Writing task: using linking words in a reply letter
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Punctuation
- Learning to use punctuation
- Writing task: correcting punctuation errors
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Legalese
- Matching legalese with plain English meanings
- Writing statutes and regulations in plain English
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An internal email
- How to write an internal email
- Writing an internal email
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An external email
- Writing professional emails
- A professional email?
- Rewriting an email for clarity, tone, and essential information
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A letter concerning an outstanding bill
- Client payment request
- Reading and understanding a model payment request letter
- Writing a client payment request
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A client advisory letter
- Learning phrases from a client advisory letter
- Writing a client advisory letter for your jurisdiction
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A demand letter 1: American English
- An introduction to drafting demand letters
- Completing a demand letter
- Understanding a demand letter
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A demand letter 2: British English
- Reading a British demand letter
- Writing a demand letter for a client
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Notice of breach of contract
- A notice of a breach of contract
- Learning phrases from a notice of breach of contract
- A contractual dispute
- Writing a demand letter for breach of contract
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A cease and desist letter
- A cease and desist letter
- Writing a cease and desist letter
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An informative memo (internal)
- Internal memos
- Identifying sections of a memorandum
- Writing an internal memorandum
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An external memo (due diligence request)
- Reading a due diligence request memorandum
- Writing a memorandum for a client
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Proofreading
- Correcting a set of notes on substantial performance
- Correcting a covenant not to compete
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How to prepare a sale and purchase agreement (SPA)
- The elements of a sale and purchase agreement
- Reading an extract from a sale and purchase agreement
- A sale and purchase agreement: vocabulary check
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Drafting key clauses in sale and purchase agreements
- Reading a sale and purchase agreement clause
- Reading conditions precedent
- Redrafting conditions precedent for a client
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An external memorandum of law (legal brief) to the court
- Reading the conclusion of a legal brief
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A disclosure letter
- Reading a disclosure letter
- Learning phrases from a disclosure letter
- Writing an explanatory email to your client
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A power of attorney
- Understanding a limited power of attorney
- Learning phrases from a limited power of attorney
- Drafting a limited power of attorney for your client
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A letter of advice
- Understanding a letter of advice
- Learning phrases from a letter of advice
- Drafting a letter of advice to your client
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Types of contract clauses
- Identifying and understanding contract clauses
- Learning phrases from liquidated damages clauses
- Writing a liquidated damages clause for your client
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An external memorandum of law (legal brief) to the court
- Reading the conclusion of a legal brief
- Writing a conclusion to a legal brief on behalf of your client
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Using modifiers
- The use of modifiers in Legal English (1)
- The use of modifiers in Legal English (2)
- Writing task: redrafting dangling and misplaced modifiers
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Other Lessons
- Writing and speaking task: using the modifier <i>only</i>
- Tips for writing emails
- Writing internal emails
- Matching contract terms with definitions
- A sale and purchase agreement: vocabulary check
- The main points in a client advisory letter
- Completing phrases in a sale and purchase agreement
- Synonyms in legal English: a sale and purchase agreement
- Understanding a sale and purchase agreement
- Writing task 1: redrafting a contract provision in plain English
- Finding simple errors in a letter
- Re-paragraphing a memo
- Summarizing a complex contract clause
- Legal writing in plain English: vocabulary check (2)
- Legal writing in plain English: vocabulary in use
- A letter to a client concerning a property purchase
- A letter to a client concerning a property purchase: vocabulary check
- A letter to a client concerning a property purchase: prepositions
- Legal writing in plain English
- An example of legalese
- Legal writing in plain English: vocabulary check (1)