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Inglês para Advogados
É ideal para advogados e estudantes interessados em negócios internacionais. Entre os tópicos ensinados estão vocabulário e estrutura gramatical da área de direito, como falar em público, escrita e pronúncia.
Os alunos farão ainda visitas guiadas à Corte de Justiça para poderem conhecer como funciona o sistema judiciário e prepararem seus próprios discursos, que serão apresentados em sala de aula.
Legal English : Commercial Lawyers
Helping commercial lawyers to work effectively in an international setting.
Typical course participants
This course is for qualified, experienced lawyers with a fairly confident command of English.
Course content summary
The course includes case studies, negotiations, discussions and meetings, and the materials combine real professional content with our highly effective learning methodology.
The trainers are language specialists with expertise in this field. There is important input from the real legal world including sessions led by practicing lawyers and visits to a law firm and the civil courts. Many participants also benefit from making lasting professional friendships.
Benefits of doing this course
Whichever course you take with us, you can expect to improve your English in the following ways:
Communicate more confidently;
Speak more accurately and fluently;
Participate more successfully in meetings;
Improve your written English including emails;
Expand your professional vocabulary;
Improve your understanding of grammar;
Socialize and network with greater confidence;
Work successfully in a cross-cultural environment.
In addition to the benefits outlined above, this course will enable you to communicate more confidently in legal situations and use specialized legal vocabulary more effectively.
Course content
The course is designed to develop participants' language and communication skills in a legal context. The course focuses on active speaking and writing skills and communication strategies.
The key language and skills you will learn in the course include:
Legal vocabulary expansion;
Effective communication skills for meetings and negotiations;
Effective participation in discussions;
Giving presentations;
Written communication including email, reports and formal letters;
Effective telephoning skills;
Hosting visits, socializing, meeting and greeting;
Listening skills.
Typical activities that you will participate in will include:
Taking part in simulated meetings and negotiations;
Drafting examples of contracts;
Giving legal advice: for example describing the process of litigation to a foreign client, role-playing real life communicative situations such as greeting visitors, making arrangements by telephone and socializing;
Making a presentation on a legal topic of your choice.
There are opportunities to learn about aspects of English and EC law and the English legal system but it is not a course in law. There are extensive reading materials available if students wish to research particular areas of law in their own time.
Legal English : Criminal Lawyers
Specialised English language skills for Criminal Lawyers and Public Prosecutors.
Typical course participants
This is a highly specialised programme designed for judges, criminal lawyers, public prosecutors, chiefs of police and officials working within ministries of justice.
Course content summary
Lawyers working in these areas often need to use legal language in a very specific context. This course is designed to provide the meetings, presentations and negotiations tools to help you function more effectively in English. Discussion topics include judicial systems, public prosecution, crimes and sentencing, asylum, cross-border crime, Europol and Human Rights.
Benefits of doing this course
Whichever course you take with us, you can expect to improve your English in the following ways:
Communicate more confidently;
Speak more accurately and fluently;
Participate more successfully in meetings;
Improve your written English including emails;
Expand your professional vocabulary;
Improve your understanding of grammar;
Socialize and network with greater confidence;
Work successfully in a cross-cultural environment.
In addition to the benefits outlined above, you can expect to communicate more confidently in legal situations, be more familiar with the language of criminal law and use specialised vocabulary more effectively.
Course content
Course participants can expect the following areas to be covered in the course:
Judicial systems and criminal law procedures;
Public prosecution, crimes and sentencing;
State responsibility and rights of individuals in criminal acts;
Cross-border issues - eg organized crime, illegal immigration, terrorism and narcotics;
European Convention on Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights.
The course focuses on providing the skills for:
Effective participation in international meetings, committees, negotiations and working groups as well as discussions at different levels;
Giving presentations and speeches;
Developing awareness of intercultural issues;
Text processing and dealing with written communication including email, reports and formal letters;
Effective telephoning skills;
Hosting visits and socializing.
Course activities include:
Taking part in simulated meetings and negotiations;
Take part in discussions on a variety of topics related to criminal law;
Giving advice on a legal matter within your field;
Role-play situations such as greeting visitors, making arrangements by telephone and socializing;
Making a presentation on a legal topic of your choice (you may bring any materials you need with you or use our resources);
Sample timetable.
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