Legal Writing and Drafting Skills
This course emphasizes precise legal writing tailored for a global audience.
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- Duration
- 3 days
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Course overview
This course emphasizes precise legal writing tailored for a global audience. Effectively communicating with English-speaking lawyers goes beyond mere words; it involves grasping the distinct way these individuals think and engage with the legal, political, and business realms. Featuring numerous exercises and examples, this practical course aims to foster interactivity and stimulate engagement. Participants will engage in activities that involve creating typical legal documents commonly used in the workplace
Training methodology
The course includes group discussions, individual tasks, and team activities, incorporating continuous writing practice throughout the exercises
Target competencies
- Drafting correspondence
- Proofreading techniques
- Plain English writing
- Comprehending legal terminology
- Practice in legal writing
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply plain English writing style to all legal documents
- Identify the necessity for legal clarity in various types of legal documents: legal letters, emails, memoranda, and opinions
- Apply sound legal writing practices
- Demonstrate the appropriate register for legal writing
- Rectify common mistakes in legal writing
- Address pitfalls and issues related to the use of legal jargon
- Conduct effective proofreading
Course outline
- Indicators of a well-drafted contract: The fundamental principles!
- Language in drafting: Will vs. Shall vs. Must
- Recognizing the legal formalities for a binding contract
- Structure and formation of a commercial contract: Stick to the formula for success
- The significance of Boilerplate clauses: Neglecting them could result in significant financial losses
- Preliminary documents – Effectively utilizing Heads of Terms
- Ambiguous words and expressions in commercial contracts – Understanding the pitfalls
- Overview of cross-border contracts: Distribution vs. Joint venture vs. Agency agreements
- Share Purchase Agreements: Allocating risks between the buyer and seller
- Troubleshooting: Identifying and correcting errors in your contract
- Effective legal writing practices
- Transitioning from legalese to Plain English
- Eliminating unnecessary archaic and meaningless phrases
- Understanding collocations
- Identifying and addressing pitfalls and issues related to the use of legal jargon in legal writing
- Crafting concise emails
- Developing comprehensive emails
- Composing formal emails
- Structuring a letter
- Content of a letter
- Assembling a letter
- The tone of letter writing
- Common phrases in legal letters
- Letter writing workshop: addressing the ten most prevalent issues
- Revising letters
- Transforming informal sentences into contemporary alternatives
- Rectifying typical mistakes in letter writing
- Challenges with English idioms
- Adapting English idioms
- Eliminating redundant words
- Maintaining consistent terminology
- Addressing ambiguity: preventive measures
- Avoiding vagueness
- Correcting preposition misuse in dates
- Addressing problematic words
- Words often subject to litigation
- Appropriate use of personal pronouns
- Selecting precise language
- Sentence restructuring to eliminate gender-specific language
Morning and evening classes are available. CompuBase Training Center, Abu Dhabi.
