Legal Writing Skills

The Company and Corporate Law Course is a 15 one-hour lesson course, covering essential Legal English words and phrases needed to work in this field. The law, and its practical application, are taught covering all topics from Limited Liability through to company formation, how companies are governed, make decisions, and institute fundamental changes. The course includes the duties and powers of directors and managers, rights of shareholders, and types of corporate entities such as Limited Liability Partnerships. The course includes the best practices of a wide range of company, and limited liability partnership issues.

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.

This 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.

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.