Cambridge
Academy
In London

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Acquire skills required in the legal consultant to be able to provide the required consultations.

• Acquire the skill of preparing a legal advice memorandum professionally.

• Acquire legal analysis skills.

• Acquire skills of writing legal notes in general among participants.

• Acquire skills of receiving legal advice and communicating with people related to them.

• Acquire study skills, techniques and concepts of legal research.

• Understand how to mix theory and practice in writing legal opinion notes for different employers.

• Recognize requirements of meaningful legal memoranda.

• Practical practice to how about research legal topics and issue legal advice.

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Personal skills to receive legal advice.

• Objective legal analysis skills.

• Dealing and discussing the issue under request for consultation.

• Legal advice skills.

• Technical skills for the legal drafting of opinion notes.

Course Outlines

Day 1:  personal skills to receive a legal advice:

• Identify the role of the legal counsel

• Effective communication skills in legal advice

• Listening skills, speaking art and questioning techniques

• Overcoming physical and moral barriers to communication

• Communication Laws

Day 2:  Objective Legal Analysis Skills:

• Legal writing from a scientific point of view

• Difference between legal analysis and legal drafting

• Persuasive analysis and objective analysis

• The four steps of legal analysis

• Evidence, evidence and sources of legal norms

Day 3:  Dealing and Examining the Issue Requested for Consultation:

• Finding legal adaptation and its importance

• Access to relevant provisions and texts

• Application of rules to facts

• Extract result

• The difference between the legal opinion and the opinion of the consultant

Day 4:  Legal Advice Skills:

• Difference between opinion notes and judicial memoranda

• Oral and written consultations

• Counseling methodology

• Form of written legal advice notes

Day 5:  Technical Skills for Legal Drafting of Opinion Notes:

• Allocate a sentence for each idea, and do not allocate more than one idea for one sentence

• Use short and medium-length sentences

• Use the tapping method to avoid the use of long sentences

• Use parallelism, balance and synthetic recursive words

• Use of pronouns

• Put connected words

• Use of pronouns.