Written Legal English

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Why should you improve your written legal English skills? To: improve, master, and communicate. • Improve your written legal English by learning the most important plain language legal writing rules. • Master the common errors present in written legal English and remove them from your writing. • Communicate with clients and other legal professionals in a clear and professional way. Why written legal English? Your writing skills are without doubt the most important language skill set you have, either in your native language or in English. However, you can develop your writing skills at any stage of your career, from trainee to senior lawyer. In contracts, opinions, memos, emails, deeds and other legal documents, a well-developed and practised written skill set is indispensable. A court will consider your legal writing for considerably longer than the time given to listening to your spoken legal reasoning. It is essential to make sure your writing skills are up to the modern standards now established in the legal world. As a trainee lawyer, your written ability will be heavily tested a long time before your spoken ability. You will write memos, emails, opinions, letters, etc. for the partner or senior lawyer to check before it gets sent to the client. In most cases, through your initial probationary period at a law firm you won't meet a client face-to-face but you will write to them. As an experienced lawyer, continued development will allow you to further develop your...