Legal Writing and Drafting Skills
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1- Online Training...with international accreditation. The value of participation per person is €1,450
2-Requirement : specifying the course, number of participants
implementation date, and joint coordination.
Group contracting ... 20% Discount For Each Participant In Any Group Of Five Person Or More
Other Places To Hold The Course :
KualaLumpur.. Istanbul.. Dubai.. Cairo.. Riyadh.. Jeddah.. Abu Dhabi.. Doha.. Muscat.. Sharm El Sheikh.. Kuwait.. Tripoli.. Amman.. Beirut.. Damascus.. Tunisia.. Casablanca.. London.. Paris.. Barcelona.. Amsterdam.. Brussels
Legal Writing and Drafting Skills
Introduction :
This course focuses on clear legal writing for a global audience. Effective communication with English speaking lawyers is about more than simply words. It entails understanding the unique way these speakers think and approach the legal, political, and business world.
Course Objectives :
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to :
- Apply plain English style of writing to all legal documents
- Recognize the need for legal clarity in different types of legal documents: legal letters, emails, memorandum and opinions
- Apply good legal writing practice
- Demonstrate the register of legal writing
- Correct common mistakes in legal writing
- Dispense and deal with pitfalls and issues relating to the use of legal jargon
- Proofread effectively
Targeted Audience :
This course is for lawyers, legal secretaries, commercial managers, contract managers and anyone who must draft, amend or update contracts, legal letters and legal opinion. The course is suitable for non-native English speakers looking for a better understanding of English legal terms.
Course Outlines :
- Legal Drafting
- Signs of a well drafted contract: The simple rules!
- The language of drafting: Will v Shall v Must
- Identifying the legal formalities for a binding contract
- Structure and formation of a commercial contract: follow the formula and you won’t go wrong
- The importance of Boilerplate clauses:
- No waiver
- Notices
- Assignment v Novation
- Governing v Jurisdiction
- Force majeure – are we covered for viruses (covid19)?
- Dispute resolution clause: Litigation v Arbitration v Mediation
- The preliminary documents in international transaction – using Heads of Terms effectively
- Vague words and expressions in commercial contracts – know the pitfalls!
- Best endeavors v All reasonable endeavors v reasonable endeavors
- Overview of cross border contracts: Distribution v Joint venture v Agency agreements
- Share Purchase Agreements
- Warranties and indemnities:
- Allocating risks and liabilities between the buyer and seller
- Negotiating warranties from a Share Purchase Agreement
- Plain English in Legal Correspondence
- Good legal writing practice
- Moving from legalese to Plain English
- Unnecessary archaic and meaningless phrases
- Collocations
- Importance of collocations in legal writing
- Pitfalls and issues relating to the use of legal jargon in legal writing
- Writing short emails
- Writing long emails
- Writing formal emails
- Writing A Legal Letter
- Layout of a letter
- Body of a letter
- Putting a letter together
- The register of letter writing
- Typical sentences in legal letters
- The letter writing clinic: looking at the ten most common problems
- Rewriting letters
- Rewriting informal sentences to modern alternatives
- Correcting common mistakes in letter writing
- Legal Writing Troubleshooting
- The problem of English idioms
- Rephrasing English idioms
- Easily confused words
- Cutting unnecessary words
- Use of consistent terminology
- Ambiguity: how to avoid it
- Vagueness: how to avoid it
- Misuse of preposition in dates
- Problem words
- Constantly litigated words
- Rewriting sentences to remove gender specific language
European Business Center Training Methodology :
Our training work is presented in a professional and attractive manner.. Interspersed with interceptive information to renew attention throughout the training period… We aim with this method to train the listener and interact… In addition to practical applications that target the direct skills and knowledge required to be achieved.. It is presented to the trainees in more than one way.. Practical exercises and applications.. Surveys and questions.. A training strategy has been adopted based on pairing between the theoretical and the professional and between the local and the global.
What Does The Participant Get From The Course?
Each participant obtains an internationally accredited training certificate from the European Business Center for Training and Development … which has the ISO certificate in quality No. 9001/2015 from the English international company UKAS .. and receives a training bag containing the scientific material via an electronic flash … in addition to an enjoyable and useful training that is reflected Positive and developmental for individuals and the institution
Note :
We can implement the training course in any of the cities referred to in this course..at the appropriate and required time for the trainees..through joint coordination with the training department at the center..the training is implemented in a distinctive manner according to the best quality standards so that we meet all training requirements and needs.
International Accreditations
European Business Center for Training and Development has obtained international and official accreditations with the highest and best international levels scientifically and technically, which reflect the level of outstanding performance in our training work.. so that it achieves what each participant aspires to by obtaining the best certificates with officially approved scientific and technical standards.
