There is a misconception that legal writing and legal drafting are the same but there is a substantial difference between the two. While legal writing typically deals with persuasive documents such as court briefs and legal letters, legal drafting involves creating documents such as contracts. They are both equally important in legal practice.
Legal writing is an important skill needed in every practice area of law. Words are used to advocate, inform, persuade, and instruct. Are you giving the right impression? Are your clients receiving the right message?
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.
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
Lawyers
Legal secretaries
Commercial managers
Contract managers
Anyone who must draft, amend or update contracts, legal letters, and legal opinion
Non- native English speakers looking for a better understanding of English legal terms
Signs of a well-drafted contract: The simple rules!
The language of drafting: Will vs. Shall vs. 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: overlooking them can cost the business billions of pounds.
The preliminary documents- using Heads of Terms effectively
Vague words and expressions in commercial contracts- know the pitfalls!
Overview of cross border contracts: Distribution vs. Joint venture vs. Agency agreements
Share Purchase Agreements: allocating risks between the buyer and seller
Troubleshooting: trace and correct errors in your contract
Good legal writing practice
Moving from legalese to Plain English
Unnecessary archaic and meaningless phrases
Collocations
Pitfalls and issues relating to the use of legal jargon in legal writing
Writing short emails
Writing long emails
Writing formal emails
The 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
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 the preposition in dates
Problem words
Constantly litigated words
Personal pronouns
Choosing the right words
Rewriting sentences to remove gender-specific language
Participants will learn about the field of communication for development in this course (C4D). In order to encourage participation and engagement with kids, families, communities, and networks for positive social and behavioral change in both development and humanitarian contexts, C4D is an evidence-based strategy that makes use of a variety of communication tools, channels, and approaches. It incorporates knowledge and ideas from social, behavioral, and communication sciences.
In order to meet these new challenges and take advantage of chances for innovation to bring about behavior and social change, participants in this three-day course will need new and improved communication competencies.
Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way we think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happened and then implementing the plans.
A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions modified by different users. The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems, and records management systems. This course shows you how to deal with papers in an electronic way to get rid of the papers hard copy which takes a lot of space and time
This course will help you define and implement the vision you have for yourself, your team, and your organization. Working from an initial understanding of your own capabilities, motivators, and resources, it will build an action plan for moving you and those around you towards a shared perception of the future, able to respond to an ever-changing world.
We all operate in an increasingly complex commercial and professional environment that requires us to negotiate on a daily basis not only with customers, clients, suppliers and contractors but also with managers, fellow employees, and colleagues within our own organization.
When did you last stop to think about how you work at work – and whether the way you work could be changed to help you be more successful? The Business Brain Train Seminar provides a thoroughly enjoyable environment for you to explore these questions. It shows how to make yourself more effective using mind mapping; teaches techniques for faster, more effective reading, and shows how to use memory systems to remember information. It examines techniques for idea generation, creativity and problem solving; planning; time management; and inter-personal communication skills (including making a speech and how to improve meetings. It focuses on the core skills required for success in any enterprise.