IA SPECIALISED LEGAL PROGRAMS

English Training for Legal Professionals

Improve your English today working with trainers specialised
in the real-life needs of Spanish lawyers

Mejorar el nivel de inglés no solo es una herramienta profesional fundamental sino una herramienta motivadora personal fundamental en nuestra profesión, genera nuevas inquietudes y te permite acercarte a la realidad jurídica de otro entorno.

Senior Partner Abogada

The law is an overwhelmingly linguistic institution

Gibbons2003

Logra que aprendas mucho en cada clase, ya que éstas son muy amenas. Además, tanto en los deberes que te manda como en las propias clases, se ajusta al ritmo que puedas llevar como consecuencia de tu trabajo. 100% recomendable

Independent lawyerAbogada

Inglés es una asignatura pendiente. Debería ser fundamental en la carrera e implementada en las empresas para estar al nivel de un mundo globalizado

General CounselAbogada

A unos profesionales se les pida mas nivel de inglés que a otros.

Co-ordinatorAbogado

Inglés es imprescindibleible en un despacho grande o en empresas

AssociateAbogada

Hay mas de 90,000 despachos de abogados en España

Language is the central vehicle through which the business of law is transacted

Hobbs2008

It is an undeniable fact […] that English is the lingua franca of today’s world

Professor Martin Mateo Alicante University

Hay mas abogados en Madrid que en Francia y el doble que hay en Reino Unido

IA Legal Training Programs

Legal Teleformación Programs

Our legal programs are now available via video or tele-conference

Legal Training Programs

Specialised English training programs for Legal Professionals

Most lawyers say they need to improve their English

Lawyers working with IA:

improve their English for Professional Purposes through rigorous and practical language training.
are supported by expert and experienced trainers in their use of English in the business of law in Spain everyday.

IA specialised trainers are:

available for on-going programs and workshops.
help lawyers become content, confident and competent in their use of English for Legal Purposes.

IA Corporate Communication provides professional language training sessions and support for Spanish lawyers from specialised trainers.

IA Corporate Communication now offers our English Language Training through all forms of video conferencing. IA legal trainers provide specialised, personalised, professional language training to professionals across Spain. Distance doesn’t have to impede your training.

IA Legal Programs: Teleformación

Our Teleformación allows us to offer unprecedented levels of flexibility. Work with your trainer to find the best slot each week for your IA training session. Real life is complicated; let us work with you to offer the most convenient and effective solution for your English training needs. Linguistic support for the business of law.

TeleLegal Team
Group sessions for remote teams
Up to 4 participants
Trainer experienced in the needs of legal professionals
Tailored and personalised course content
price from €50
per hour
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TeleLegal Partner
Individual language training for legal professionals
Flexible scheduling
Trainer experienced in the needs of legal professionals
Tailored and personalised course content. Sector specific content.
price from €50
per hour
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Minimum Session length of 1 hour. Recommended session length 1.5 hours/week or 2×1 hour/week

Platforms available: Microsoft Teams, Skype, Skype for Business, Zoom, Whatsapp Video Calling, LoopUp Conferencing and more.

Want to keep it super simple? We also offer telephone sessions.

We also offer English language training for Legal Professionals on a Private basis. Contact us today to find out what rates and timetable we can offer you.

IA Legal Programs: Face to Face

Legal Group Sessions
Group language training between 2 – 6 participants
Minimum level B1
price from €50
per hour
Year round courses. Monthly openings.
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Associate Sessions
Personalised one-to-one language training for lawyers
Minimum level B1
price from €50
per hour
Year round courses. Monthly openings.
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Partner Plus Sessions
Associate Sessions augmented with extra schedule flexibility. Telephone, video conferencing and WhatsApp sessions available. Email support.
Minimum level B1
price from €55
per hour
Start when you want
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Training sessions take place in your workplace and in your schedule. Content and resources are designed around your practice area and your real-life needs using English for professional legal purposes.

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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan

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IA: LEGAL Workshop Programs

Intensive, demanding and having an immediate impact on professional performance and confidence levels among legal professionals, IA English for Legal Professionals Workshops are a clear demonstration of investment in talent for both the firm and the participant.

Whether it is to prepare for a specific, up-coming challenge, a periodic benefit for your employees or a regular, concerted effort to increase the office-wide English for professional purposes level, IA workshops are a popular and useful option for those participants unable to commit to the on-going programs.

Short courses focused on immediate needs duration between 8 – 40 hours.
Between 1 to 10 participants.
Minimum level B1
Specialised trainers selected for each workshop

Contact us today to discuss your tailor-made workshop

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
BB King

IA:LEGAL Background

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FOCUS: Away from the academic
CONTENT: English and the Law
APPLICATION: Real life and Research
JUSTIFICATION: Investment in Talent
BENEFITS: Expansion and Promotion
ATTITUDE: Your trainer, your training
APPROACH: More than an English teacher
TRACK RECORD: Experience tells. Results speak.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Relationships matter
SOURCES: Materials and Resources

FOCUS: Away from the academic

We are not offering academic legal English training. We will not make you sit exams and take tests and study international law and British case studies in tort law. Not unless you need us to.

We train and support you to use English as a tool to do your job.

Our project is not about passing exams and getting the best grade. It is about addressing the needs you and your clients have and providing hands on help to busy professionals.

Practical and real life application of the training content and time is paramount and we aim to have an immediate impact on making your life easier.

We want to make it easier for you to do your job, to say what you mean and move forward in your career, expand your law firms’ client base and extend your sphere of influence in your chosen area.

CONTENT: English and the Law

In front of a changing legal market place, we don´t need to tell you that that the business of law in Spain is changing.

In a sector filled with competent professionals and growing competition at both a national and international level, English is no longer an optional extra.

Both clients and companies expect their lawyers to have a command of the English language. It is now one of the basic tools that lawyers are expected to have at their disposal. Recent graduates are required to have a good level of English and increasingly management and partners are being called on to use English in their day-to-day operations.

Just as information management and office tools have changed in recent years, so too have the language requirements for legal professionals. No one is expecting cases to be defended in front of the Spanish courts in English but the jurisdictions of international contracts are increasingly outside of national borders meaning that the operational language is English. International and European cross-border litigation deriving the free movement of persons and common markets means that often the language of correspondence in English. Collaboration between European law firms often turn to the lingua franca de facto of the EU; English. Whether this is likely to change in the future or not may well be open to discussion but the fact of the matter is that across Europe and the world, English is the most widely spoken second language in the world of business and trade. Both commercial and private law practice demands a command of English regardless of jurisdiction. Legal professionals who seek to work in a globalising world need to demonstrate their ability to function effectively in this new reality.

Your clients speak English. Do you?

APPLICATION: Real life and Research

Supported by the IA Legal Language team, your IA Legal Trainer will work with you to expand your vocabulary, fluency and knowledge of your jurisdiction, discuss issues that affect it, explore international and European trends and industry insights.

English language training and support services offer immediate added value to your professional perspectives and prospects and improves your clients’ experience.

JUSTIFICATION: Investment in Talent

Lawyers, as effective communicators, have to convince the client, the judge, the counterpart. Good communicators find and use information well. They transmit and share information and ideas in the words that people understand. Communicative lawyers prove they understand the letter of the law and use spirit to practice law.

A good lawyer is a good communicator. Communicators use more than just the words they learned at their mothers´ knee and they don´t stop learning, ever. Investment in language training programs for legal counsel demonstrates the value seen in strong communication skills, in on-going learning and acknowledges the fact that language, in all its forms, is at the centre of law and legal practice.

Participants who receive English training in the work place say that they feel appreciated and supported by their firm. They have the confidence to work on improving their level and increase the scope of their professional performance.

Investment in training is known to be a key factor in personnel retention and employee satisfaction and morale. Attracting the best professionals means demonstrating investment in their futures´ as well as that of the firm.

BENEFITS: Expansion and Promotion

Whether you are seeking to expand and grow your firm, or looking to extend and improve your personal career studying, improving your English level opens doors and offers opportunities with both employers and future clients alike.

ATTITUDE: Your trainer, your training

IA English for Legal Purposes trainers are there for you.

Your experience, your needs, your responsibilities; we prioritise and personalise our training approach and content to the reality of your situation. As much a trainer as a language assistant, your trainer will help you with emails, conference, meetings, calls, reports, sales material, research, and more. They will also help you clarify, refine and improve your grammar, fluency, pronunciation, comprehension and all traditional language based skills.

APPROACH: More than an English teacher

What defines the difference between IA English for Legal Professionals and other Legal English courses is the trainer. We only work with professional and experience language trainers and the legal team is formed by trainers who excel and have experience in the legal sector. The team counts on linguists, pedagogues, public speaking specialists and legally experienced professionals to provide a specialised and personalised service to each and every participant.

TRACK RECORD: Experience tells. Results speak.

Lawyers who have worked with us have gone on to work in multinational law firms, drafting lawsuits in English. They have gained international clients for their current firms .They have built and maintained client relationships in English native speaking countries. They have travelled to and participated in international conferences on wide ranging topics. They have helped both legislate and litigate. They have both avoided and defended cross-border claims. They have researched and studied and become familiar with using international resources and evidence in defending their cases in the Spanish jurisdictions. They have hosted and recruited international students and been published in international journals and media. They have improved their English level effectively, efficiently and now use English as another tool in their repertoire of skills.

CUSTOMER SERVICE: Relationships matter

IA believes that the relationship between the trainer and the participant is key. It is something that must be nurtured throughout the service provision. They work with your talent to improve their skill set.

Participant confidentiality is always respected. A culture of mutual respect and trust is created.

But likewise we believe the relationship between IA and the client is key. We stay in contact throughout offering feedback and asking for the same. Key account managers are assigned to large contracts and PSR issued regularly for all IA participants.

The legal programs also receive the added and constant support of the program director who can always be contacted by both participant and trainer in terms of content and materials support, roadmap and needs analysis guidance. In the case of the Partner Plus Program the program director will co-ordinate the online support, telephone sessions and language support portion of the service provision.

SOURCES: Materials and Resources

There is no one textbook that will explain your job as you do it today. Neither is there one textbook that can address all your needs with English for Legal Purposes. Instead, we utilise the realia you would want to access in English and build and provide the support frame around these real life resources to aid your language acquisition and improvement.

Based on the insight of leading academics and practitioners in the field of English for Legal Purpose this approach has its roots in the early days of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and is proven to be the most efficient and effective approach for adult occupational legal learners. Drawing on insight from legal linguists, forensic linguists, discourse analysts, psychologists and sociologists, this approach is in line with current English language training trends towards communicative competence and task-based learning (TBL). The Partner Plus Program also trends towards Computer Aided Language Learning Approachs (CALL).

We also encourage the use TILT based learning approaches. Translation from Spanish to English and English to Spanish has received a great deal of criticism in recent years as being old fashioned and backwards looking. While we seek to create a English language based training environment in which the working language is English, we believe that we can use Spanish as an essential and useful tool to both learn and save time. Translation in English Language Teaching approaches in English for Legal Purposes are especially useful due to the differentiation between Legal and General Spanish and Legal and General English.

Reading
- Reading for Gist
- Detailed Reading
- Error correction
- Research skills
Writing
- Grammar and Vocabulary
- Error correction
- Tone and Register
- Emails, letter, reports and memos
Listening
- Active listening
- Effective note-taking
- Listening for gist
- Top-down or bottom-up
Speaking
- Pronounciation
- Conversation skills
- Networking
- Public Speaking
Legal
- Jargon and Legalese
- Document style
- Writing conventions
- Drafting and construction
Personal Language Assistant
- Translation
- Proofreading
- Preparation
- Drafting
Telephone Training
- At home, abroad
- Immediate needs
- Double checking
- Listening practice
Online Support
- Email support
- Fast response
- Focused content
- Research projects
Customer Service
- Responsive service
- Key Account Managers
- Feedback culture
- Regular meet ups
Scheduling
- Your schedule
- Your location
- Flexibility
- Punctual and prompt
Feedback and Progress
- Bi-directional feedback
- Progress reports
- Needs Analysis
- Personal Roadmap

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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”
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