• Our 3-week course for less experienced international lawyers and law students.
• A maximum of 12 students per class.
• Focus is on legal skills required by employers.

Lessons take place at these times. Friday’s lessons finish at lunchtime to allow you the opportunity for relaxation and travel. Vocabulary crash course.

• 9.00 – 10.30 LESSON 1
• 10.30 – 11.00 Morning coffee break
• 11.00 – 12.30 LESSON 2
• 12.30 – 13.30 Break
• 13.30 – 15.00 LESSON 3

Your legal English course includes an intensive study of these areas:

• Commercial legal vocabulary in context
• The terminology of commercial contracts
• Best practice in modern contract drafting in 2018
• Accurate modern letter-writing skills
• Negotiating skills
• Forms of business in the UK
• Company law and its vocabulary
• Presenting information and legal opinions
• Comparing styles – legalese and plain English
• The requirements of leading law firms in 2018

Legal English lessons focus upon these aspects of English language:

• Vocabulary crash course
• Accurate and natural sentence structure in English
• Modern style and register
• Comparing the legal English of the UK and the USA
• Accurate prepositions in English
• Accurate collocations in English
• Accurate formation of questions
• Accurate conditional sentences
• Understanding modern idiom
• Correcting old problems

• 30 July – 17 Aug 2018 *1 Place Left*
• 13 Aug – 31 Aug 2018 *Course Full*
• 20 Aug – 7 Sept 2018 *Course Full*
• 1 Oct – 19 Oct 2018
• 19 Nov – 7 Dec 2018
• 7 Jan – 25 Jan 2019
• 11 Feb – 1 March 2019
• 6 May – 24 May 2019
• 8 July – 26 July 2019
• 29 July – 16 Aug 2019
• 12 Aug – 30 Aug 2019
• 19 Aug – 6 Sept 2019
• 7 Oct – 25 Oct 2019
• 25 Nov – 13 Dec 2019