Writing & Presenting Legal Advice to Your Clients

BPP Professional Education

Course summary

6 hours

455 GBP excl. VAT

English

BPP Professional Education

Open / Scheduled

Next available date: 24/09/2019 - London

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Course Dates

London

24/09/2019 (English)

455 GBP

05/12/2019 (English)

455 GBP

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Course description

Writing & Presenting Legal Advice to Your Clients

This course will allow participants to practice using plain English in client correspondence and when delivering client presentations. There are plenty of exercises and examples which makes for an interactive and stimulating course helping the participants to develop their writing and presenting styles.

Suitability - Who should attend?

This course will be of benefit to any practitioner involved in delivering legal advice, from trainees to senior partners and from pupils to silks. This course does not cover legal drafting or advocacy but focuses on presenting advice in a client-friendly way, both in writing and verbally. This course looks at various communication methods including presentation skills, written and verbal communication. Please note that those participants with a particular interest in improving their writing skills may be interested in attending Clear Legal Writing

Training Course Content

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course you will be able to:

Apply the principles of plain English
Use readability tools such as the Fog Index
Access the Readability Statistics function in Microsoft Word to help assess the clarity of their writing
State the nine different structures that can be used for business documents
Apply a four-point action plan when editing text
Design clear and effective PowerPoint presentations
Deliver client presentations confidently

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BPP Professional Education - Accountancy, Tax, Financial Services, Law & Insolvency Courses

BPP Professional Education is one of the specialist examination-based and professional development training arm of the BPP Group, Europe's biggest professional education and publishing provider with 2,000 staff members across 40 countries and over 30,000 students per year. BPP Professional Education...