British Legal Centre News and Events

News and Events

2 NEW GROUPS: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND LEGAL WRITING – STARTING 4th MAY 2020

April 20. 2020

New live study groups for our two most popular courses, Contract and Legal Document Drafting, and Legal Writing, will start on 4 May.

Use this enforced time away from the office to prepare for return to work. Improve, polish and perfect your ability in these two essential skills to stand out from your colleagues and move ahead in your work with these 15 lesson courses. To help you get started we will provide more than 10% discount on our usual prices, reducing each of them from US$450 per person to just US$399.

Free General Legal English Course – our response to Coronavirus Covid-19

April 4. 2020

As a Legal English and Legal skills training company, which works online, we decided to help all of you to use your time during the Coronavirus quarantine more effectively. Because we want you to rise during this time, become better, more competitive, emerge as international lawyers!

Following your positive feedback, we decided to develop a new General Legal English Course, containing the topics from Legal Writing, Legal English, Contract drafting and Contract Law, as well as different Grammar exercises and Legal Vocabulary topics. For more information – click here

NEW GROUP: OIL and GAS LAW and LEGAL VOCABULARY COURSE – STARTING 5:00 PM (UK time) 10th June

June 2. 2019

New Summer Offer for the next Oil and Gas Law and legal vocabulary course.

The next group course of Oil and Gas Law and legal vocabulary, starting at 5:00 pm (UK time) on 10th June, is discounted by 10% down to US$ 450.00. The course covers the law of 15 essential areas of Oil and Gas Law, together with the legal English terms and phrases needed to work in this important legal area.

NEW GROUP: LEGAL WRITING – STARTING 5:00 PM (UK time) 23rd MAY

May 17. 2019

Your ability to write clearly and correctly is the basis upon which clients will assess your professional ability. Lawyers must master accurate legal writing to progress their careers. Every document you write should demonstrate that you are a professional, clearheaded, knowledgeable and accurate lawyer - just the type that clients want to deal with.

NEW GROUP: CONTRACT AND LEGAL DOCUMENT DRAFTING – STARTING 16:00 (UK time) 8th MAY 2019

April 23. 2019

A new online study group will start the 15 lesson Contract and Legal Document Drafting Course on Wednesday 8th May. The course will cover the essential skills of writing clear contracts and formal documents, explaining essential legal vocabulary and the use and legal effect of basic contract clauses, including covenants, indemnities, warranties, and guarantees. The meaning and use of many specific, technical clauses are also covered, including Liquidated Damages, Termination, Confidentiality, and many boiler-plate clauses. The course also covers SAAS contracts and SLA agreements, and considers the future impact of Block chain technology and 'smart contracts'.

NEW GROUP: CONTRACT LAW – STARTING 12:00 Noon (UK time) Monday 18th FEBRUARY 2019

February 7. 2019

A new study group will start the 15 lesson online Contract Law Course on Monday 18th February. The course will cover essential legal concepts and doctrines plus the Legal English vocabulary needed to work effectively in this area of law. Course topics include formation of contracts, breaches, remedies, estoppel, part-performance, restraint of trade, guaranties, indemnities, warranties, conditions and other essential contract law information. These are all covered in the 45 minute online lessons. The course exercises

FREE COURSE OF LEGAL ENGLISH VOCABULARY NOW AVAILABLE

January 18. 2019

We are pleased to announce that we have a new free short introductory course of legal English vocabulary in 10 lessons of around 10 minutes each. The lessons are recorded so that you can watch them whenever it is convenient for you.

The course provides examples of legal vocabulary and phrases and emphasises the correct use and pronunciation of the vocabulary, and give the legal meaning of the words and phrases shown in the lessons.

NEW TRAINING CENTRE IN CYPRUS

January 17. 2019

We are delighted to announce the new partnership with The Private Institute of Law in Limassol, Cyprus, headed by Alexandra Elliott and Androulla Poutziouris.
This allows us to run regular live lessons and training events for lawyers in Cyprus, and to use the technology in the centre to recieve lessons and training from our trainers in other countries.

NEW TRAINING CENTRE IN SANTIAGO, CHILE

January 17. 2019

We are delighted to announce the opening of our first training centre in South America with partners Britannia UK  headed by Mr Mauro Ulloa in the capital city, Santiago.

This allows us to run regular live lessons and training events for lawyers in Chile and neighbouring countries, and to promote our live broadcasts from our trainers in other countries.

NEW TRAINING CENTRE IN MAURITANIA

January 16. 2019

We are delighted to announce the opening of our first training centre in the Maghreb Region of Africa, with our new partners Mauritania Language center, situated in the capital city Nouakchott.

This allows us to run regular live lessons and training events for lawyers in the Maghreb region of North-West Africa, and to use the technology in the centre to recieve lessons and training from our trainers in other countries.

 

New Course---60 short video-lessons of legal writing

September 11. 2018

We know that busy lawyers find it difficult to set aside time for study to improve their legal knowledge and skills. This is why we are really proud of our newest course, the recorded video course of legal writing contained in 60 twelve-minute video lessons. 

Now you can take the course, to improve all aspects of your legal writing, in lessons averaging just 12 minutes followed by short inter-active exercises. 

 

OUR NEW WEBSITE FINALLY GOES LIVE AND FULLY OPERATIONAL!

September 10. 2018

You have probably noticed our ‘New Look’ website, which we finally sent live this weekend. Although the website has been displayed in its new format for the last 6 weeks, we were unable to use all of its new features until today. We have now up-loaded sufficient new recordings of our different courses, with their new style inter-active exercises, to allow us to switch on all the new features on the site.