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Legal English : Legal Secretaries
Helping key legal staff to communicate
This specialised programme is designed for legal secretaries who need to improve their confidence, fluency and efficiency.
This intensive course will help you to deal with legal documents or commercial correspondence in English including email and formal letters. It also introduces key legal vocabulary and general business vocabulary and covers a wide range of telephone techniques, dealing with visitors and handling difficult clients. You will also discuss ways to help you to get the most from your working relationship with other key legal staff.
You can expect to improve your English in the following ways:
- communicate more confidently
- speak more accurately and fluently
- participate more successfully in meetings
- improve your written English including emails
- expand your professional vocabulary
- improve your understanding of grammar
- socialise and network with greater confidence
- work successfully in a cross-cultural environment
In addition to the benefits outlined above, you can expect to communicate much more confidently in legal situations, use specialised legal vocabulary more effectively, write clearer letters and emails and feel more comfortable with legal terms.
Course content
Course participants can expect the following areas to be covered in the course:
- communication skills needed in work situations
- written communication including email and formal letters
- lawyer-legal secretary relationship
- key legal vocabulary and general business vocabulary
- developing active listening techniques
- intercultural communication and working in a cross-cultural environment
- news and current affairs
- grammar and pronunciation as necessary
Professional hospitality, hosting and entertaining visitors and handling social situations are important for many business people, as is confidence when using the telephone. Areas covered would therefore include:
- meeting and greeting
- receiving visitors
- socialising
- using the telephone effectively
Please contact The Language House – +41 (0)22 321 52 63 for course dates and prices.
“We have been working with The Language House since its creation. It regularly organises immersion language courses in English, German and French that are tailored to the needs of our employees. The Language House has always shown great professionalism and efficiency at the highest level.”
“The Language House has worked with our bank for the past six years organising overseas language training courses and helping us maximise our training opportunities. We are extremely happy with the quality and efficiency of services provided by The Language House. We receive excellent feedback from employees who have completed English, French and German immersion courses.”
Bank Sarasin & Cie AG