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The Legal Writing Course is an interactive 15-hour course, covering the basic legal skill of legal writing for all types of legal texts used by professionals. Dealing with being clear, concise, precise and accurate in content and vocabulary whilst being easy for the reader to understand. The course covers the use of plain English for legal texts, as well as persuasive writing techniques and writing to explain and promote legal ideas for litigation, arbitration and negotiation. CPD Certified Course – earn 15 hours of CPD on completion of the course.

The 15-hour Contract Law Course presents the law of Anglo/US contracts and the vocabulary needed to work in this area of law. The topics are presented in considerable detail, in both live, and recorded, online video-conference lessons. The course includes the legal principles of contract law and deals with breaches, remedies, estoppel, part-performance, restraint of trade, guaranties, indemnities, warranties, conditions, the law of Agency, and other essential contract law doctrines. The lessons also cover the essential legal English words and phrases relating to contract law, explaining their legal meaning and use. CPD Certified Course – earn 15 hours of CPD on completion of the course.

The 15-hour Legal English Course presents practical key legal English vocabulary, and terminology in considerable detail, in both live, and recorded, online video-conference lessons. The course includes the legal meaning and use of the vocabulary and phrases in correspondence, legal texts, contracts, and other formal documentation. The lessons cover the legal vocabulary of a wide range of commercial law topics and include Latin and Norman-French words and phrases, which are still used today, along with the specialised legal meaning of words which differs from their meaning in general conversational English. CPD Certified Course – earn 15 hours of CPD on completion of the course.

The short free course “Legal English Vocabulary” presents a snapshot of some key legal English terminology in 10 lessons of around 10 minutes each.

At the end of the course you will know and understand how arbitration procedure works and how to perform your role in arbitration proceedings.

The Oil and gas Law and legal vocabulary course involves the law of 14 essential areas of Oil and gas law needed to work in this important legal area.

The Company and Corporate Law Course is a 15-hour course, comprising 15 one-hour lessons, covering the meaning and use of the essential Legal English words and phrases needed by lawyers working in this area of the law. Both the law and its practical application are taught from the principles of Limited Liability through to company formation and how companies are governed and make decisions to their closure or merger. This includes the duties and powers of directors and managers, the rights of shareholders, and other corporate entities such as Limited Liability Partnerships. The course includes the law and best practices of a wide range of company, partnership, and limited liability partnership issues. CPD Certified Course – earn 15 hours of CPD on completion of the course.

The course covers the essential law and key legal English terminology in brief online extracts of law, reading, listening, and speaking.

The Contract and Legal Document Drafting 15-hour Course presents practical key English contract drafting techniques, law, and terminology in considerable detail, in both live, and recorded, online video-conference lessons. The course includes the drafting, use and legal effect of basic contracts, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, and assignments. The lessons cover third-party rights, guarantees, indemnities, warranties, conditions and other contractual terms, rights, remedies and enforceability. CPD Certified Course – earn 15 hours of CPD on completion of the course.

The QLTS Exam Preparation Course equips you with the necessary knowledge and skills to pass the UK Law Society’s transfer scheme exams as a short-cut to qualify as a UK Solicitor.

The Expert Legal Writing Course is an intensive course, which shows you how to write texts that will make the difference between winning and losing cases. It teaches advanced legal vocabulary, grammar and the principles of clear persuasive legal writing coupled with real world law tasks requiring professional legal writing in their answers.

The Advanced Legal English Course is the first compact and self-contained Legal English course for both Law students and professionals in the market that includes authentic, relevant practical material on a broad range of legal topics. The course comprises speaking, listening, reading, and writing for all types of legal texts and situations, from meetings to court proceedings. Its simple lesson format makes it the latest, most up-to-date, practical and effective course for understanding and using professional legal English of the highest standard.

Ronan M.D.Fitzsimons has been a Solicitor in the UK for over 20 years. In that time he has also qualified as a teacher of English as a foreign language and had many years experience teaching and training young lawyers in different universities in the UK. Ronan has a large amount of experience in training in Arbitration Law and Practice and Mediation Law and Practice. Ronan is Fluent in French and Spanish and also spoken Japanese and Portuguese.

Nick Johnson studied law at King‘s College, London. He became a lawyer (solicitor) in 1992. Nick has been working as a lawyer for more than 20 years, advising banks, corporations and governments on M&A projects, privatization, corporate and commercial matters in the UK, Japan, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Saudi Arabia. Nick has worked across most business sectors, with a particular focus on telecommunications. Nick is an of-counsel at JŠK.

Richard Brady qualified as a lawyer in 1976 and re-qualified in Banking and Insurance in 1997 following his experience of running an insurance company in the Middle East. He then spent 6 years working in the City of London as a financial adviser. Richard qualified as a teacher of English as a foreign language in 2003. For the last 18 years he has been teaching legal English, law and practical legal skills to lawyers in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Gulf and has trained the lawyers of many of the major law companies in these regions. Richard is the head of the British Legal Centre.

Chris, UK Solicitor, has extensive experience of teaching Legal English and Law to lawyers who are not native-English speakers. He taught CPD course for Solicitors in Hong Kong - taught on the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, Spain (UNIA) Masters programme and taught Lawyer summer school in Spain.

Before he became a legal English and Law teacher Chris worked at Maguires Solicitors, Manchester - November 2010 - January 2012 and, before that from November 2008 - November 2010 he was a Solicitor in the Complex Crime department of Legal 500 rated law firm.

Sofia conducts one-to-one and group courses in multinational and state companies and professional associations Collaborates with Training Entities In Italy (training courses in law and English for Lawyers, Accountants, Notaries) Professional Association for Accountants and Auditors of Bologna: Specialised Training Courses (taxation and accounting)

Sofia is an authorised Trainer and Examiner of Toles (Test of Legal English Skills).

Christopher is our Head of Asia for the British Legal Centre (Asia).  He was a partner in a law firm in London for many years.  With a keen interest in business development, Christopher developed sophisticated BD and networking skills, resulting in a rapid increase in his client base.  Christopher has taught these, and many other,  skills to both lawyers and managers over many years.

Marjorie, graduated with Honors from St. John’s University School of Law in New York.  She is a corporate law attorney, specializing in international business with a focus on technology startups.  She worked at Hewlett Packard in the late 90's during the 'technology boom' negotiating complex deals with technology companies. From 2003 - 2008, she headed Stellatek Solutions an international consulting firm commuting to the Middle East and North Africa for many years working with American and European businesses expanding abroad.  In 2008 she took a teaching position at ESLCA’s Paris MBA program launching ESLSCA’s first Entrepreneurship program.  In 2013, she began teaching at the Frankfurt University School of Applied Sciences School of Law and Business.  She currently teaches courses on International Business Law, Start-up Law, Comparative Contracts and European Integration, in both the International Business and the LLM programs at the University.