Maîtriser le vocabulaire légal en anglais.
Acquérir de l'aisance au téléphone dans le maniement de l'anglais juridique.
Rédiger des courriers et autres documents juridiques en anglais.
Cerner les structures contractuelles de droit anglo-saxon.
Méthode pédagogique : En début de formation, les participants préparent en commun un lexique des principaux termes employés en anglais juridique. Des études de cas, des ateliers de rédaction et une mise en situation téléphonique permettent aux participants d'acquérir une bonne maîtrise de l'anglais juridique dans diverses situations de la vie professionnelle.
Programme de la formation Anglais pour assistants juridiques - English for legal secretaries :
Basic tools for a good use of legal English
- Legal vocabulary
- In business contracts law
- In company law
- In private international law
- In white-collar criminal law
- Exercise : make a lexicon of principal legal terms necessary in every day use
- An introduction to the different legal systems under common law and civil law
- Basic concepts and tenets
Handling telephone calls
- Using different registers
- How to manage an incoming call from an important client, opposing counsel and a judge?
- How to manage appointments and other priorities?
- The best way to place an order and to verify details
- How to complain and to handle complaints
- Resolving a litigation dispute through negotiation
- Terms of payment
- Late delivery of documents
- Role playing : negotiate some aspects of a dispute by telephone using the language of negotiation and draft a letter confirming the agreement
Fundamental drafting rules in legal English
- Translating documents/redrafting contents
- Making sense of complex sentences
- Using punctuation to clarify meaning
- Proof reading and error correction
- Verifying quotes and citations in legal briefs
- Letters, standard forms, correct forms of address
- The English and American forms and conventions in legal letters and documents
- Standard openings and closings tailored to the recipient
- Demonstrating how to prepare documents on a computer
- Taking notes at meetings
- Exercise : obtaining information from a client in a lawsuit and drafting a summons
The structure of American and English standard contracts
- Most common types
- Case study : comparison of French and American contract principles (with reference to the English law)
- Basic components
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