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 opinions
The course is suitable for 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 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: 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 v Joint venture v 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
This course gives essential and in-depth practical techniques that will enable you to excel in your workplace. In this course, you will learn multi-disciplinary best practices such as how to be a better business writer and a master communicator
Over time important business documents, such as letters, contracts, or project documentation, can reach significant volumes and take up precious and expensive storage space. Moreover manually searching for relevant data can consume an untold amount of employees’ time. this course helps organizations to save on facility costs, reduce working hours, and significantly speed up business processes by converting business documents into digital records that can be electronically archived, efficiently managed, and easily accessed.
You can learn the skills you need to help a company implement, manage, and maintain a disaster recovery plan by taking a Disaster Recovery Manager training course. You will also receive a comprehensive understanding of best practices for disaster recovery during this training course.
You can take the exam and submit an application for a "Certified Disaster Recovery Manager" credential once you have mastered all the principles required for Disaster Recovery procedures. You can prove that you have the professional skills and practical knowledge necessary to implement and manage disaster recovery processes in a business by having a disaster recovery manager certificate.
In this course, participants will be sensitized to the recent trends in public relations and develop their skills to carry out contemporary roles and practice of public relations and to identify the structure of the optimal organization and responsibilities of employees of the public relations departments, planning and follow-up work in public relations departments, develop and motivate the performance of employees, planning and organizing a ceremony of reception and bidding Visitors and VIPs, develop effective communication with customers and employees, how to arrange concerts, seminars, and banquets.
This program is concerned with the development of the skills and abilities of the Public Relations Manager. Therefore, the program offers a set of training and concepts necessary to build constructive relationships inside and outside the institution based on scientific bases in building this relationship and planning it and study the extent of the institution's place in the hearts of employees on the one hand and the surrounding community. The program is concerned with providing the man of communication skills and effective communication with others as one of the elements of building relationships and what are the means to improve the internal structure of the institution and the network of formal and informal relations.
The program also provides the trainee with the skills required to make presentations and to negotiate partnerships with relevant institutions through meetings, presentations and cooperation, and partnership agreements.
All businesses in the current environment need a competitive edge. This can be gained through innovative and exciting products and services, or effective and efficient world-class employees. Top performing organizations are passionate about their most valuable resource - their staff. To maintain their high standards a large proportion of their time and energy is spent on continuous professional development, not only of their employees but of their business. This course investigates the tried and trusted management processes, procedures, and methodology used by many blue-chip companies. They use the tools to develop high levels of performance from their staff. This in turn ensures the future and reputation of their companies through innovative development, service, and evaluation. This course offers participants practical solutions to work-related issues.
Implementing an anti-bribery management system (ABMS) based on ISO 37001 has a number of advantages, including helping the organization avoid or reduce the costs, risks, and damage of being involved in bribery, fostering trust and confidence, encouraging due diligence and morally righteous business practices, etc. You must have the knowledge and abilities necessary to establish, implement, manage, maintain, and continuously enhance an ABMS in order to reap these benefits for your firm. The ISO 37001 Lead Implementer training course is where you should be for that. The training program aims to give participants a thorough understanding of ISO 37001 requirements as well as the best methods and techniques for setting up and maintaining the management system.