Legal Skills for Administration

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
12 Oct 2025 Doha, Qatar $ 4,500 Register

Legal Skills for Administration

Introduction

This course will offer LL.M with advanced standing and SJD students an opportunity to address critical topic areas in legal writing that are not substantially addressed in other courses. The intended audience is those students with an interest in working in fields involving legal writing, policymaking or producing journal‐style legal publications. The lessons are intended to significantly improve legal writing skills, English grammar and syntax, advanced research conduct and organization, and understanding of analytical and persuasive legal writing methodologies. To that end, students will be given a series of lectures, exercises, and writing assignments to facilitate the development of these critical skills. The course will be structured in a practical, “hands‐on” manner, offering the student’s constructive critiques of their writing style, grammar, spelling, and legal analysis, regularly and directly. It is anticipated that by the end of the course, each student will have fashioned a toolbox of legal writing skills enabling them to effectively engage in public discourse using the craft of legal writing.

Objectives

    By the end of the strategic planning training course, you will be confident in differentiating strategic from business planning. You will recognise the importance and value of detailed analysis and have experience in using a variety of tools and techniques. You will have an appreciation of the relationship between your organisation’s vision and mission and its future, and will have applied this thinking to your own organisation. You will also have a clear understanding of monitoring and evaluation, and will have improved your strategic thinking skills.

Training Methodology

The training methodology is interactive with group exercises and is suitable for all employees involved in functions management. The pace and level of the training workshop is customized to the understanding of the delegates. Ongoing back-up and support is available after the training on request to the supplier, and the training course is also available for in-house presentation as well as for “Competency Transfer”.

Who Should Attend?

Admin staff, Lawyers, Workers in the Human Resources, Contract Section, Executive Secretary and Office Managers.

Course Outline

Module 1

Introduction to Advanced Legal Writing Topics to be covered: Application of legal writing to professional disciplines Review of Basic Citation and Grammar Techniques Review of Basic Legal Research Techniques

Module 2

Topic Development Topics to be covered: Research sources and techniques Preemption checks Determining applicability and appropriateness Developing a research/ thesis question

Module 3

Advanced Research Techniques Topics to be covered: Locating the most authoritative sources Researching case law Researching policy organizing a research plan identifying relevant documents and discarding superfluous data How to deal with quantitative research tracking research sources

Module 4

Prewriting/ Outlining Topics to be covered: Developing a research organization diagram organizing thoughts into paragraphs and sections

Module 5

Organizing the Draft/ Writing the Counter Analysis Topics to be covered: Sequencing the discussion Developing section headings and subheadings

Module 6

Structuring the Arguments/ Advanced Legal Analysis Topics to be covered: Crafting logical and sound arguments Integrating Case law Staying focused on the theme of the project Clarifying issues and answers

Module 7

Advanced Editing Topics to be covered: Editing symbols and meaning Stylistic versus substantive editing of legal writing Testing logical structures Fluidity in writing

Module 8

Advanced Legal Citations Topics to be covered: Review of basic citation skills Use of signals and parenthetical International sources Online sources Foreign language sources and translations

Module 9

Editing Software/ Cite Checking Topics to be covered: How to best utilize track changes and compare functions of MS Word Printing to Adobe Acrobat Formatting with macros shepardizing case law using LexisNexis and Westlaw Confirming accuracy of quotations creating a citation binder for use with publication process

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