A legal memo carries the same evidentiary weight as a piece of academic research — it stands or falls on how well it was prepared and how rigorously it follows a sound method. Yet knowing the law is not the same as being able to interpret it correctly, classify it, and turn that interpretation into a written memorandum a court will actually rely on.

This course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy trains legal professionals to interpret statutes and regulations with precision, classify laws correctly by type and subject, and draft legal memos, pleadings and administrative memoranda that are free of the material errors and gaps that weaken a case before it is even heard.

Course Objectives:

• Provide legal opinions on matters and affairs referred for review.
• Study different types of cases and memoranda of a legal nature.
• Understand the characteristics and concepts of laws and regulations, and how legislation is classified.
• Identify the types and divisions of laws and who is subject to each.
• Prepare and draft legal memos and statements, and formulate administrative resolutions and memoranda.
• Gain advanced experience in writing and preparing contracts, and in concluding contracts and legal notes.

Target Audience:

• Managers and directors of companies and enterprises.
• Personnel in charge of legal departments in business and commercial firms.
• Directors of legal departments across companies and enterprises.
• Legal officers and businessmen wishing to develop their legal skills.
• Employees in legal management, and law students, graduates and trainee lawyers.

Module 1: Why Legal Memos Matter as Much as the Law Itself

• Formulating documents, memos, statements and legal memoranda of various types.
• Providing legal opinions on matters referred for review.
• Studying various types of cases and memoranda of a legal nature.

Module 2: Laws, Legislation and How to Read Them

• Characteristics and concepts of laws and regulations.
• Types and divisions of laws, the persons subject to each, and the classification of legislation.
• Legal provisions — their definition, interpretation and importance — and the origins of legal interpretation.

Module 3: From Interpretation to a Defensible Written Memo

• Applications and examples in writing legal memos.
• Skills and methods of legal drafting for lawsuit purposes.
• Stages and mechanisms for preparing legal advice, based on extensive study of legal sciences.

Module 4: Contracts, Negotiation and Administrative Memoranda

• Advanced experience in writing, preparing and concluding contracts.
• Negotiation, dispute resolution and persuasion skills.
• Formulating administrative resolutions and memoranda.