Legal English for International Lawyers

TOLES Exam Preparation & Tour of Legal London

Starting Price: £1600.00

Our one-week legal English course enables delegates to communicate legal concepts and information in writing confidently and easily,
write precise legal texts, briefs, documents, and client correspondence, use legal vocabulary more accurately, concisely and effectively,
participate easily in meetings, telephone calls, conferences, and negotiations and use legal English in discussions and presentations confidently.
Our engaging and exciting course involves interactive exercises, real-life legal drafting exercises and stimulating quizzes and tests.

We will scrutinize and practice past TOLES exam papers and prepare you fully to sit the exam in our Exam Centre or online.

 

You will learn:

  • Legal terminology and collocations
  • Legalese and plain English
  • Consistency in the terminology used
  • Abandoning of Archaic Words
  • Active and Passive Voice
  • Positive and Negative Phrases
  • Avoiding Double Negatives
  • Avoiding ambiguity and vagueness

The TOLES (Test of Legal English) EXAM

English, or the English needed to do a law degree with a UK or US university.
Studying for and taking a TOLES exam is excellent preparation for international lawyers intending to do a course for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). Join us in Mayfair for our TOLES Exam Preparation Course.

The TOLES exams allow international lawyers and law students to provide evidence of their language skills in specific areas of knowledge that are highly valued by employers, such as international commercial negotiations, company documents and cross-border contracts drafted in English.
The TOLES exams test the specific English that lawyers who do not have English as a first language need to work successfully in international commercial law. Commercial legal English is significantly different from everyday