The Legal English Manual

The handbook for proficiency in legal English

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The Legal English Manual offers professional legal language, legal English terminology and practical examples for your day-to-day business. It assists lawyers, attorneys and legal practitioners in competently making use of their professional expertise in English-language business situations.

The team of authors consists of Legal English coaches who, as linguists, legal experts and practitioners, included a language focus (with examples of business language), a legal focus (professional terminology) and a practical focus (practical examples in business situations) in this book.

This book was written under the direction of Lawbility and in consideration of the federal administration’s terminology database (www.termdat.ch).

Content overview

Information about the book:

• Publication year: 2017

• Format: 288 pages, paperback

• Price: CHF 59.–

• 2nd edition

• Language: English

• ISBN 978-3-7190-3944-8 (Switzerland)

• ISBN 978-3-406-70828-2 (Germany) 

• ISBN 978-3-9524737-0-2 (international)

In co-edition with Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag (Basel), C.H.Beck (Munich) 

and BarWrite® Press (New York).

The Legal English Course Book

Volume One / Volume Two

Professional Legal English and Practical Skills (PLEPS Examination)

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Lawbility has developed and applied these two course books «The Legal English Course Book» Volume One/ Volume Two in its Professional Legal English & Practical Skills Training since 2010. The practical self-study material and the interactive lessons teach professional business language skills and legal terminology for its application in real-life situations. Besides that, you will be efficiently and professionally preparing yourself for the «PLEPS» Legal English Exam. Volume One contains professional language training including relevant grammar, along with practice examples, as well as an exam preparation for crash courses. Volume Two is an intensified continuation of Volume One.

The team of authors is made up of Lawbility Legal English Coaches and internationally practicing lawyers, who functioned as linguists, legal experts and practitioners and have given the course books its three emphases, namely a language focus (with examples of professional language), a legal focus (with a reference section for legal terminology) and a practical focus (application examples for professional situations).

Volume One (10 Modules)

• Professional Language in Negotiations, Presentations and Meetings

• Practice Examples for Correspondence and Legal Writing: Contracts, Letters, Emails, Memoranda, Reports and Minutes

• «PLEPS» Exam Preparation

Volume Two (11 Modules)

• Practical Exercises for Contract Language and Correspondence, Negotiations and Meeting Language, Presenting and Pleading

• Text Comprehension

• International Legal Terminology and Translation Methods

• Style, Grammar and Vocabulary for Professional Language

Advantages at a Glance

• Course material from a tried and tested legal English course concept

• Teaches oral and written professional languages skills

• Suitable for self-study and group lessons through different training sessions (answer key provided in each book at the end)

• Suitable for use in legal English courses at university, in law firms and legal departments

• Teacher’s Handbook with useful training and coaching instructions and Train The Trainer offers for teachers and coaches available upon request (contact us now)

Target Groups

Lawyers and legal practitioners who use legal English in their daily professional life; lawyers, legal employees and students in (further) language / legal education, legal translators, lecturers and legal English teachers at university and college.

Volume One

• Publisher: Lawbility (Zurich / Switzerland)

• Co-Publishers: Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag (Basel / Switzerland) and C.H.Beck (Munich / Germany)

• Publication year: 2018 (First Edition)

• Format: 160 pages, paperback

• Price: CHF 28 (bundled with Volume Two CHF 66)

• Language: English

• ISBN 978-3-9524737-7-1 (Lawbility)

• ISBN 978-3-7190-4099-4 (Helbing Lichtenhahn)

• ISBN 978-3-406-72324-7 (C.H.Beck)

Volume Two

• Publisher: Lawbility (Zurich / Switzerland)

• Co-Publishers: Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag (Basel / Switzerland) and C.H.Beck (Munich / Germany)

• Publication year: 2018 (First Edition)

• Format: approx. 270 pages, paperback

• Price: CHF 42 (bundled with Volume One CHF 66)

• Language: English

• ISBN 978-3-907123-10-2 (Schweiz)

• ISBN 978-3-7190-4100-7 (Helbing Lichtenhahn)

• ISBN 978-3-406-72325-4 (C.H.Beck)