Legal advice is judged the moment it is put into practice — in a courtroom, a disciplinary hearing, or a negotiation table. A consultant who knows the law but cannot apply it with impartiality, structure it into a defensible written opinion, or negotiate its consequences with the parties involved, is only half-equipped for the profession.

This course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy brings together the full range of skills legal professionals need to practise with real competence — from the discipline of writing an impartial legal opinion and mastering the drafting of contracts, memos and pleadings, through to the negotiation and persuasion skills that turn sound legal advice into a workable outcome.

Course Objectives:

• Build full working knowledge of the legal branches relevant to daily practice, both practical and theoretical.
• Practise discipline procedures in public-sector positions, and understand the procedures enforceable against public officers.
• Acquire advanced skills for dealing with judicial authorities and understanding their scope of authority.
• Draft contracts and document them in a complete and legally sound format.

Target Audience:

• Managers and directors of companies and enterprises.
• Personnel in charge of legal departments in business and commercial firms.
• Directors of legal departments and legal affairs across companies.
• Legal officers, businessmen and employees in legal management.
• Students, graduates and trainee lawyers.

Module 1: Foundations of Professional Legal Practice

• The concept of legal management, and legal provisions — their definition, interpretation and importance.
• The origins of legal interpretation and an extensive study of legal sciences.

Module 2: From Legal Opinion to Legal Memo

• Applications and examples in writing legal memos.
• Skills and methods of legal drafting for lawsuit purposes.
• Stages and mechanisms for preparing legal advice.
• Formulating documents, memos, statements and legal memoranda of various types.

Module 3: Contracts, Specifications and Negotiation

• Skills for preparing and concluding contracts.
• Negotiation, dispute resolution, and persuasion skills.
• Writing and analysing contract specifications and procurement processes.
• The legal importance of contractual specifications and their link to the "Invitation to Tender" process, and identifying doubtful or deficient descriptive specifications.