Our Intensive 5-week Legal English course for Russian-speaking lawyers who need to make progress very quickly.
Course Basics
- Course Length: 5 week
- Location: Dialog Moscow office
- Maximum Number of Students: 4
- Total Classroom Hours: 100
The course includes an intensive study of these areas:
- Commercial legal vocabulary appropriate context;
- The terminology of commercial contracts;
- Best practice in modern contract drafting in 2014;
- Accurate modern letter-writing skills;
- Negotiating skills;
- Forms of business in the US., UK and Europe;
- Company law and its vocabulary;
- Presenting information and legal opinions;
- Comparing styles: - legalese and plain English;
- Commercial awareness; and
- The requirements of leading Moscow-based international law firms in 2014
Focus of the Lessons
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; and
- Correcting old problems.