A contract that omits one specification, or a legal memorandum translated without preserving its exact legal meaning, can cost an organization far more than the paper it's written on. Legal drafting and legal translation are exacting disciplines — precision in language is not a stylistic preference here, it is what makes a document enforceable.

This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built for professionals who need that precision daily. It covers the scientific principles behind legal drafting, the legal weight of contract specifications throughout the procurement cycle, and the translation skills needed to move legal memoranda, statements, and contracts between languages without losing their legal force.

Program Objectives

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Master the legal formulation requirements involved in drafting and concluding contracts, and apply them to avoid execution problems caused by omitted or ambiguous terms.
• Build full working knowledge of contract and legal document drafting, including procurement-cycle specifications and their legal weight in the "invitation to tender" process.
• Understand how different specification types affect prospective bidders, and the role technical proposals play in evaluating tenders.
• Apply appropriate international or enterprise standards when drafting contracts and specifications.
• Understand the characteristics, types, and classifications of laws, regulations, and legislation, and the subjects each governs.
• Practice legal dispute procedures and apply the principles, methods, and tools of sound legal drafting.

Who Should Attend?

• Managers of companies and enterprises, and legal department personnel.
• Business owners wishing to develop their legal skills.
• Employees working in legal management.
• Law students, graduates, and trainee lawyers.

Module 1: The Role and Structure of Law

• The concepts behind law and its significant role in societies.
• An extensive grounding in the legal sciences.
• Characteristics of laws and regulations, and how legislation is classified.

Module 2: Contract Preparation and Negotiation Skills

• Skills for preparing and concluding contracts.
• Negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
• Persuasion techniques that support effective contract negotiation.

Module 3: Writing and Assessing Contract Specifications

• Writing and analyzing contract specifications and procurement processes.
• The legal importance of contractual specifications and their link to the "invitation to tender" process.
• Spotting doubtful or deficient specifications, and the risks tied to different specification types.

Module 4: Language, Translation and Legal Drafting

• How word choice affects the meaning of contractual articles and legal conditions.
• Translating and formulating legal documents, memoranda, and statements across languages.
• The controls that govern legal translation and the methods used in contract drafting.

Module 5: Applying International Standards in Contract Drafting

• Adopting the appropriate international or enterprise standards where required.
• The principles of legal drafting — concepts, methods, and tools.
• Concluding contracts and writing legal notes to a professional standard.