Advanced Legal Translation and Memo Writing

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
16 Oct 2025 Muscat, Oman $ 4,500 Register

Advanced Legal Translation and Memo Writing

Introduction

This resource explains two dominant ideas in professional writing that will help you produce persuasive, usable resumes, letters, memos, reports, white papers, etc. This section outlines the concepts of rhetorical awareness and user-centered design, provides examples of these ideas, and it contains a glossary of terms. This course will handle the two legal systems (common & civil law systems) and their impact on legal writing and translation. The course will be structured in a practical, “hands-on” manner, offering the attendee’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

    The course will be structured in a practical, “hands-on” manner, offering the attendee’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.

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

  • Translators, Lawyers, Contract Section, Legal Department

Course Outline

 Types of legal literature

  • Write the legislative (laws, contracts, regulations, rules, and commandments
  • Analysis of the substantive legal (court judgments, arbitration awards, the formulation of the legal opinion notes, etc.)
  • Impartial legal analysis (notes pleadings)
  • Communicate through writing (regular letters, e-mail)
  • The difficulties in understanding the legal text, England at the level of the floor, a group of words, phrase, sentence, the relationship between the sentences
  • See examples of important commercial contract clauses & its translation

Vocabulary

  • Choice of words (official words, technical words, words borrowed)
  • Artificial legal language
  • Redundancy (terms of marital and triple)
  • There, were, here basis.
  • Legal expressions

Formation, effective, structure & types of contracts

  • Why we need contracts
  • The reasons for using contracts
  • The use of written or verbal contracts
  • Basic principles in contract formation and contract effectiveness
  • Basic contractual structures
  • A model kit to build a contract
  • Different business models use different types of contract
  • International commercial terms ( incoterms )

Sentence structure

  • Elements of the legal basis
  • Building paragraphs
  • Writing templates
  • The syntax of legal analytical
  • Problems with prepositions

Civil law and common law systems

  • The difference between the two legal systems in relation to substantive law & its impact on translation.
  • Drafting & translating articles of the contract according to differences in civil & common law.

 Exercises

  • Reading and analysis and translation of selected texts from Arabic and English (the laws, contracts, memoranda of the pleadings, a court ruling, the decision to arbitration, power of attorney)

 

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