These courses are tailored to your practice area, whether you work in private practice, in-house or for an institution. The courses will enable you to be more effective in oral and written communication and improve your listening and reading skills.

Course components include:

• Legal vocabulary

• Varied interactive speaking exercises, e.g. giving oral advice in meetings and on the telephone, and negotiating

• Presentations on areas of law

• Legal correspondence

• Report writing

• Summarizing the contents of a broadcast on an area of law

• Contract drafting

• The differences between British and American English

• Punctuation and common grammar mistakes including prepositions, tenses and conditional sentences

• Proofreading

• Clear writing strategies, such as:

  • avoiding ambiguity, repetition and superfluous language

  • structuring paragraphs and sentences

  • selecting the right tone (formal or informal)