Legal Secretary Duties Course

This course will tell you about what legal skills are vital for making yourself more valuable to the company or firm you are currently working for.

Participants will:

• Understand the law definitions and interpretations.
• Recognize the impact of different legal systems on legal documents.
• Achieve the confidence and skills to properly understand legal documents, letters & reports.
• Understand the meaning and application of important legal terminology.
• Understand the elements of tort law and contract law.

CONTENT

Module one

• Why we use contracts
• How contracts are formed
• Legal requirements for a valid contract
• Oral contracts
• Incorporating other documents by reference
• Authority to contract
• Different Types Contracts in law
• Negotiation agreement
• How to end a contract in a legal way.

Module Two

• Common law system VS Civil law system.
• Communicate through writing.
• Organization of the legal document.
• The terms defined.
• Punctuation.

Module There

• Choice of words (official words, technical words, words borrowed)
• Must, may, may not be prohibited, the right, required.
• Artificial legal language.
• Redundancy (terms of marital and triple).
• Legislative syntax (sentence wisdom and phrases restrictive sense).
• Business and Technical English Writing.
• Comparison between E-mail and Voice Mail.

Module Four

• Elements of the legal basis.
• Building Paragraphs.
• Writing templates.
• Problems with prepositions.
• Translating legal documents from Arabic into English and vice versa.
• INCOTERMS
• Disputes.
• Legal Terminology and phrases.

Module Five

• To what extent can you vary the source text?
• how to use the common archaic legal adverbials (e.g. hereto, hereof, thereof, heretofore)
• Company law.
• Different types of companies.
• Letters & reports.
• Copyright law.

FOR WHOM:  Legal Officers and others who perform related functions

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

The training is available in the following locations:

NIGERIA: $5500

RWANDA: $7500

UK: $8500

USA: $8500