Legal English
Twelve interactive chapters, the last of them a final test, and a placement test, for lawyers and law students working in English. Every chapter runs in the browser, saves your work on your own device and prints to PDF.
Each chapter is self-contained. Work through them in order for a full course, or go straight to the field you need. Exercises mark themselves and explain what was wrong, and the writing tasks include a checker that reads your draft.
Answer keys and model answers sit behind a code that your teacher holds. If you are teaching with these pages, the key explains the marking scheme for every written task.
New to the course? Read the English for lawyers overview first: who it is for, how the chapters work and how to get live lessons.
Foundations
Rights, obligations and the relationships a commercial lawyer meets first.
Intellectual property
Patents, trade marks, copyright and the language of licensing and infringement.
Competition law
Agreements, dominance, investigations and the vocabulary of regulatory correspondence.
Employment law
Contracts of employment, dismissal, discrimination and advising on procedure.
Contract law 1
Formation, terms and the words that decide whether an agreement binds.
Contract law 2
Breach, remedies, limitation of liability and negotiating a way out.
Real property law
Interests in land, leases, landlord risk, title insurance and careful purchasing.
Business and environment
Company work, from formation to insolvency, and the regulation around it. These chapters add recorded listening and two model answers for every written task.
Company law 1
Business forms, governance, meetings and community interest companies.
Company law 2
Restructuring, share classes, corporate finance, cross-border insolvency and M and A.
Environmental law
Access to information, polluter pays, product and waste rules, and impact assessment.
Maritime
A two-part sequence: the voyage and its documents, then the casualty file that follows when something goes wrong.
Maritime law 1
Ships, cargo, jurisdiction, charterparties, ship recycling and the compliance conventions.
Maritime law 2
Collision, salvage, general average, limitation, pollution, insurance, arrest and settlement.
Grammar for lawyers
Three shorter units on the grammar that legal writing leans on most. Keys open with the teacher code.
Conditional sentences in legal English
Rules, possibilities, hypotheticals and past alternatives in contracts and advice.
Relative clauses in legal English
Defining and non-defining clauses that identify parties, documents and rules precisely.
Maritime law English (IMLI Malta focus)
Terminology, legal effect and drafting practice around an applied case; pairs with chapters 10 and 11.
Check your level
Sit the placement test at the start to find your level, or at the end to see what has stuck. The final test closes the course and points you back to the chapters that need another look.
Chapter 12: final test
The test that closes the series: 99 questions spread evenly across chapters 1 to 11, a capstone client briefing and two drafting tasks. You get a score, a breakdown by chapter and links to the chapters to revisit.
Legal English test: placement and progress
Two hundred questions across every field in the course, four short reading tasks and a written advice task that is marked for you. You get a score, a breakdown by field and your weakest areas.
How your work is saved. Everything stays in the browser you are using, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, so use the same browser to come back to a chapter, and use Print or PDF if you want a copy to keep. The one exception is the written task in the placement test, where the text you submit is sent for marking and nothing else; the final test’s drafting tasks stay in your browser for your teacher to mark.