Legal Writing Skills Training

This course is about legally protective writing strategies. Nobody gets it right first time. Learn to write defensively to reduce errors, miscommunications & misinterpretations.

Writing in a strategic way is as important as oral statements. Strategic legal writing is critical for solving commercial and business disputes and winning legal battles. This program gives a wide range of topics that arise in everyday tasks in a business and commercial setting. The course gives to the non-expert matters relating to drafting contracts and writing letters and memoranda.

When in doubt and before you write your final draft in your office, check the dictionary and then the legal dictionary. Some letters are not easily readable. Lay readers cannot understand certain documents. When not to write? It all boils down to “Clarity”, using plain simple English in writing letters, office memos or documents.

What to avoid when writing documents and letters? How to draft agreements and documents? Learn the modern style to write clearly, properly and effectively, in this 2-day course, which will take you through the effective strategies for a better writing of your letters and documents in your office or corporate world. Choosing the right word to write is ever so important, but also watching out for problem words with multiple meanings avoiding double negatives that gives mental somersault!

This training is specially designed for in-house lawyers & non-lawyers who need to prepare legal documents such as contracts, agreements, service level agreements & many more...

Key Benefits of Attending This Excellent Training

Learn what works and what doesn’t. In this program, you will learn how to:

• Sample contract with clause by clause analysis

• Write in a strategic and winning way

• Write in a practical, tactical and focused manner

• Rely on standard terms and conditions/ boilerplate precedents and not to rely on implied terms but expressly provide for terms

• Write Plain English to be effective

• Learn the General Principles of Legal Writing & Drafting Letters,

• Memoranda, Documents and Reports

• Drafting commercial contracts

• Understanding the 8 most deadly contractual risk management pitfalls with a comprehensive exploration on a broader expect of contract risk management

• Drafting commercial contracts as well as revisit/ redraft existing commercial to include new service terms/ payment terms/ clauses due to Covid

Who Should Attend?

This workshop will be essential use to Heads, Directors, Managers and

Executives of the following departments:

• Legal/ Corporate Legal/ Legal Counsel

• Legal & Compliance/ Legal & Secretarial/ Legal & Regulatory/ Litigation

• Procurement/ Purchasing

• Contract Management/ Tender Contract

• Project Management/ PMO

• IT/ ICT/ IT Vendor

• Facilities Management

• Human Resources