The Study Legal English Podcast

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I share with you a discount code to get a huge 50% off my site memberships and products. When you checkout select 'Have a coupon?' and enter coupon code: BFLAW on checkout  for: ✔️ LITE membership ✔️ PRO membership ✔️ Legal English level test STUDENT ✔️ Legal English level test TEACHER 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please he...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, Vlastimil Göttinger, Secretary-General of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, gives me a tour of the world's first constitutional court. We learn about the history of the court and building, about the justices, and the types of cases they hear.  Find out more about the Constitutional Court Connect with the Court on Twitter and Facebook 🙏This...

🗒️ About this episode: This episode is about the  Study Legal English for Development and TOLES for Professional Career Project  which ran in summer 2021 in collaboration with the Law and Administration Faculty at UMCS the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. It was organised by myself and UMCS legal English lecturers  Ewa Orłowska  and  Małgorzata Chmielewska  for their students. ...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode I give an overview of intellectual property law and what IP lawyers do. I read an extract from an article about IP, the article was written by Liz Cohen, partner, and Claire Phipps-Jones, senior associate, in the IP litigation team at Bristows LLP. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠....

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode I interview CEO of TransLegal , Michael Lindner . We talk about TransLegal's helpful legal English resources for teaching, translating, and studying legal English, including the Legal English Lab and the World Law Dictionary . We also mention some exciting collaborations we are working on together. There are also some discount offers for listeners. Find T...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I give an overview of banking and finance law, including:  what is banking and finance law, what does a banking and finance lawyer do, what skills does a banking and finance lawyer need, what are the pros and cons of working in this area. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episod...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I’m interviewed by Stephen Horowitz about my practical legal skills course I’m teaching Muscat, Oman. Find out about what I’m teaching,⁠ challenges students face⁠, and adventures I’ve had. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links Website page 🥇Learn legal English Take a...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I give an overview of tort law, including: what is tort law, types of tort (focusing on negligence, trespass, and defamation), what tort lawyers do, the typical day of a tort lawyer, what makes a successful tort lawyer, and the realities of the job. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I’ve got an exciting announcement to make about a collaboration between TransLegal and Study Legal English. Plus, listen to the end for some great offers! 15% discount on Podcast Pro membership with code TLSLE valid until May 31st. Sign up  here . 15% discount on the TransLegal World Law Dictionary with code SLE15S. Sign up  here . 🙏This podcast is free to...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview Stefania Passera, one of the best legal designers in the world! We talk about good v bad legal design, information architecture, plus we hear about some examples of Stefania's work. The privacy policy which Stefania created for Juro is now available as an open-source template , which your law firm can use (maybe with the help of a tech-savvy...

🗒️ About this episode: A short announcement about an upcoming online course on contract negotiations. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠ 🥇Learn legal English Take a legal English class or course Sign up for my site membership Buy my book: Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers Get italki credit for English classes...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview Rupert Haigh, author of Legal English. Rupert shares with us 5 difficulties learners of legal English often face: articles and prepositions, capitalisations, uncountable nouns, subject-verb agreement, sexist language .  He offers listeners a free download detailing the top 10 difficulties, see below to download.  🙏This podcast is free to help pe...

🗒️ About this episode: In this podcast episode I talk about the Lawyer's English Language Coursebook, also known as the TOLES book for the Test of Legal English Skills. This podcast is not endorsed or sponsored by TOLES as is my honest review. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links Website page ⁠The Lawye...

🗒️ About this episode: In this podcast episode I interview Aloysius Chang about his experience studying for and passing the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) to become a qualified lawyer in England and Wales. We talk about what the QLTS is, study tips to help, resources to use.  🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠....

🗒️ About this episode: This podcast episode gives an overview of what the podcast is and some information about my background as the podcast host. I answer questions such as: What is legal English?  Who is the podcast for?  Where am I from? What are my plans for 2021? 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links We...

🗒️ About this episode: Ken Adams, the leading authority on contract drafting language, tells us about  THE code you need to know about for contract drafting. We discuss the categories of contract language, the use of shall, the use of legalese words such as defend, indemnify and hold harmless. Ken also opens up about what drives him to do what he does. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around...

🗒️ About this episode: Mark Anderson, one of the UK's top IP lawyers, tells us about his approach to contracting and shares his top tips on IP drafting. We discuss: template contracts governing law and jurisdiction clauses common law concepts and civil law contracts language usage in IP contracts e.g. assigns v licenses grant-back clauses. Connect with Mark on Twitter and  LinkedIn . 🙏This po...

🗒️ About this episode: Move over Buffy the Vampire Slayer, here’s Alex the Contract Slasher. Alex Hamilton, CEO of NewLaw firm  Radiant Law , is synonymous with legal innovation. I am in LOVE with what this crazy guy and his Rad team are doing. In this episode we discuss what NewLaw is, how most law firms are using AI, and what you can do to genuinely improve your contracts. Connect with Alex on ...

🗒️ About this episode: This is part two of my interview with Sarah Fox. We talk about liquidated damages, what you can do today to improve your contracts, and using visuals in contracts. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links and references Website page Contact Sarah on  ⁠LinkedIn⁠  or email  ⁠Sarah@500words....

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode I interview Sarah Fox on her concept of drafting a contract in 500 words. We talk about the bare essentials of contracts and about a checklist to help you in contract review. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links and references Website page Contact Sarah on  ⁠LinkedIn⁠...

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode we learn about employment law. We find out about:  what employment law is what employment lawyers do the skills needed to be an employment lawyer. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links Website page 🥇Learn legal English Take a legal English class or course Sign up for m...

🗒️ About this episode: Today I interview Daniel Edelson – US attorney, adjunct professor at St. John’s Law, and founder of USlawessential.com. We talk about how to improve your legal English with: ● Visual examples ● Noticing ● Rephrasing ● Summarising You’ll also learn how to use the following terms and phrases: According to, under, and provides. There are 2 bonus podcast episodes this week for P...

🗒️ About this episode: Today’s episode is all about Technology, Media & Telecommunications law. We’ll be looking at: ● What TMT law is ● What TMT lawyers do ● What makes a good TMT lawyer This episode is available as a podcast episode and YouTube video.  The article in this video is available  here .  Do you work in TMT law? Would you like to work in this field? If you do or if you would like...

🗒️ About this episode: In today’s episode I give an overview of what commercial law is and what a commercial lawyer does. We’ll be looking at: ● what commercial law is ● what commercial lawyers do ● what skills commercial lawyers need ● pros and cons of the job 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links Website p...

🗒️ About this episode: In today’s episode I read an extract from an article all about mergers and acquisitions. The article was written by Claire Consoli, an associate in the corporate team at  Skadden LLP , and published on the  Lex 100 website . We’ll be looking at: ● what an M&A is ● what M&A lawyers do, and ● the realities of the job. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the wo...