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The Study Legal English Podcast is the world's first legal English podcast. Helping lawyers and law students become fluent in legal English. Legal English is difficult to master and is important for lawyers and law students around the world. If you'd like to improve your legal English, don't worry, by listening to the regular Legal English podcast you can gradually improve. Members can also access further learning resources such as transcripts and quizzes Visit:.https://studylegalenglish.com ...
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🗒️ About this episode: In Episode 137 of the Study Legal English Podcast, I interview Barrie J. Roberts, author of "The Getting to Yes Guide for ESL Students and Professionals: Principled Negotiation for Non-Native Speakers of English." Barrie shares insights from her unique career transition from a public interest lawyer to an ESL instructor and m…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I'm joined by Natasha Costello to share our top three tips for effective legal email writing. We dive into how to start emails, ensure clarity, and structure your messages for a professional impact. If you'd like to improve your legal writing, join our "Legal English for Legal Writing" workshops, designed to …
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🗒️ About this episode: In this special episode, I'm joined by Natasha Costello to celebrate the one-year anniversary of our book, "Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers." The episode answers key questions from listeners and readers and includes information on upcoming courses. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please he…
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🗒️ About this episode: Join me as I dive into an enlightening conversation with the innovative Kateřina Chudová, head of the language unit at the faculty of law at Masaryk University. In this episode, we discuss the transformative power of AI in legal English education. From using AI as a vocabulary assistant to its potential role as a mentor, Kate…
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🗒️ About this episode: Ken Adams, the leading authority on contract drafting language, tells us about his A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting now in its 5th edition. Ken tells us about some key additions to this book, including information about the words 'material', 'consequential damages', and 'including'. I also share my opinion as to why ev…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I'm joined by Natasha Costello to talk about our legal English Summer School. 🙏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 my site membership Buy…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode I’ve got an announcement to make: Natasha Costello and I are running our first workshop series based on our new book Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers: Improving your Legal English. Our first workshop series is on the topic of networking. We want to help you feel more confident about networking in …
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🗒️ About this episode: Can Chat GPT teach you legal English? Chat GPT is a chat bot that uses artificial intelligence, to answer questions that you ask it. In this episode, I show you a conversation I had with Chat GPT and share the advantages and disadvantages of using Chat GPT as your legal English teacher. 🙏This podcast is free to help people ar…
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🗒️ About this episode: This episode is about five legal English preposition mistakes that probably you are making. We look at the correct way to use them and also do a quiz. out ... court settlement reach out ... someone participate ... a meeting attend ... a meeting act on behalf ... someone We look at the correct way to use them and also do a qui…
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🗒️ About this episode: This episode is about five legal English preposition mistakes that probably you are making: to impose something ... someone to enter ... a contract parties ... a contract binding ... someone to consist ... something We look at the correct way to use them and also do a quiz. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the worl…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, we listen to my interview with Louis Pruvost, head of communications at Gapsmoov, a company specialising in cross-cultural education. We look at what culture is, the cultural challenges you could face as an international legal professional, and the tools you can use to become more culturally aware. To try Gap…
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🗒️ About this episode: This is a recording of the webinar for legal English teachers and students to explore the book: Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers ahead of its launch at the end of January. The webinar took place on 16th January 2023 on Zoom. Speakers: Natasha Costello and Louise Kulbicki (co-authors) Host: Stephen Horowitz 🙏This …
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I announce when Practical English Language Skills For Lawyers: Improving your Legal English by Natasha Costell, and me, Louise Kulbicki will be published. And I invite you to join me and Natasha for a webinar on Monday 16th January 2023 at 6pm - 7pm CET on Zoom. The webinar will be kindly hosted by Stephen Ho…
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🗒️ About this episode: This episode is about coursebooks you can use to improve your legal English. The episode also features some messages from the authors of those books. 🙏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 Lawyer's Legal English coursebook…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I share resources to improve your legal English speaking: ✅ ways to find a language exchange partner ✅ resources to find a legal English teacher ✅ ways to improve your speaking by yourself ✅ ways to overcome barriers to speaking Podcast LITE and PRO members get access to a downloadable transcript for this epi…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I share: ✅ top podcasts for improving your legal English listening ✅ a Spotify playlist for legal English listening ✅ 3 ways to max out your legal English listening 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast ⁠with a donation⁠.⁠ 📙Episode links ⁠Website page⁠ P…
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🗒️ About this episode: FLASH SALE NOW ON! This weekend I’m running a flash sale on my online TOLES courses. I’ve got a huge offer on and that is: buy 1 get 1 free. It means if you sign up and pay the full price, you will get a free place on that course for a friend or colleague. So essentially each of you will only pay 50%. This offer is only valid…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode I interview Podcast PRO member, Brazilian lawyer – Regiane Gurski. We talk about her story learning English and legal English, why she likes being a PRO member, her experience of taking my legal English Podcourses, and her tips on learning. The end of the episode includes phrases and idioms with definitions an…
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🗒️ About this episode: Study Legal English is now a TOLES registered centre and is running the following TOLES preparation courses: Online TOLES FOUNDATION preparation course Online TOLES HIGHER preparation course TOLES Winter School in Italy But what is TOLES? This episode is all about the TOLES exams. We look at the following questions: What is T…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview Polish judge Dawid Sztuwe about his experience conducting court hearings online during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dawid gives tips for lawyers, parties, and other judges on how to deal with problems and some resources which can help you learn more about online hearings. Connect with Dawid: dawid.sztuw…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I give an overview of what real property law is and what a real property lawyer does. This episode features lots of legal English vocabulary and at the end of the show I do a quick quiz to test your real property vocabulary! 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview Jonah Perlin, Georgetown Law professor of legal practice and advanced legal writing. We talk about Jonah's background teaching English and working on international complex commercial litigation as an attorney. We talk about aspects of persuasive writing including theory of case, and logos, pathos,…
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview John Terry Dundon, Georgetown Law professor of contract drafting. We talk about John's background teaching English abroad, working as an attorney, and teaching legal English and contract drafting. We talk about what the priorities are for drafting contracts including going into detail on specific …
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview Martin Kopa, Regional Court Judge in Brno, Czech Republic. We talk about his work as an attorney, how he became a judge, and the resources he recommends for staying up to date. 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode …
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🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I interview Vlastimil Göttinger, Secretary-General of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. We talk about his work, the work of the judges, the competencies of the court, how one becomes a judge here, and an interesting case decided here. Find out more about the Constitutional Court Connect with the…
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