Kurs

Writing modern legal English

Learning the new style of legal English to optimize communication

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6995 NOK.

Take aways

A one-day seminar meant to help Scandinavian lawyers adapt to the recent and significant changes in the style of modern legal English. By the end of the seminar, the participants should have a healthy disrespect for the archaic legal language used by our grandfathers, and write in the clear, new style used by thoughtful professionals in the modern business and legal English world.


Content

Users of Legal English writers have split into two camps; old style and new style. Old style is the legal English used by our Grandfathers: noun-heavy, written in the passive voice, with lots of legal jargon; the style of Charles Dickens. Old style is condemned by all legal writing experts - “Unbearably, maddeningly, mind-numbingly pompous.” says Mark Fisher of the BBC.
 
New style is legal English as written in the modern commercial world. New style is supported by the English-speaking judiciary, all the bar associations of the English-speaking nations, associations whose purpose is to introduce clarity in legal writing, and influential legal writing experts such as Bryan Garner, David Daly and Kenneth Adams. New style is the style of Hemingway and Orwell – short, sharp, punchy and aggressive.
 

Topics are

  • Orwell’s six rules for writing and the KISS rule 
  • Recognising and eliminating tired old legal clichés 
  • Writing in the active voice   
  • Using as few words as possible 
  • Recognising archaic words, legal jargon and unnecessarily long words and replacing them with normal words as used by normal people 
  • Using verbs instead of nouns to bring dynamism to your writing

Target group 

The material is challenging, and participants should already be comfortable with high-level English. 

Material

The course material will include the general principles and best practices of Legal Project Management as well as some checklists and templates. It will be provided online via JUC´s portal.

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Kompetanseutvikling

Hos JUC finner du juridiske kurs innenfor et bredt spekter av arbeidsområder. Vi tilbyr både grunnkurs og spesialiserte kurs som kan godkjennes som obligatorisk etterutdanning.

Våre kurs undervises av ledende norske og internasjonale eksperter som gir deg innsikt i aktuelle utfordringer og muligheter innen ulike rettsområder. Du vil få konkrete verktøy som du kan anvende i ditt daglige arbeid, samt et unikt innblikk i ny lovgivning, rettspraksis og forvaltningspraksis med fokus på betydningen for ditt spesifikke arbeidsområde.