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BRITISH www.british-legal-centre.com LEGAL CENTRE LEGAL ENGLISH BY DISTANCE LEARNING

OUR MISSION: ”TO DEVELOP THE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OF LAWYERS AROUND THE WORLD”

www.british-legal-centre.com WHO WE ARE: The British Legal Centre is the trading name of UK Legal Centre Limited, a UK company. Registered Office: Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester St, London, WC1n 3AX, UK. Company Registration No: 07378244. Since 2010 we have been teaching and training lawyers around the World through Online lessons and training events broadcast over the Internet. Most of our trainers are qualified lawyers with experience of legal practice and who also possess language teaching qualifications. We have over 10 courses of law, legal soft-skills, and specialized law/finance courses in our portfolio.

www.british-legal-centre.com WHAT WE DO: We teach and train lawyers, and other professional staff, who want to achieve professional excellence in their chosen profession. We provide newly qualified lawyers and others with the necessary skills to become successful international professionals. We do this both through on-line lessons, broadcast over the Internet, as well as traditional live training events and courses - delivered in traditional classroom and conference settings. We also run intensive one and two week courses in residential schools in Ireland.

OUR PURPOSE OBJECTIVES: To be the leader in the field of legal skills teaching/training. VISION To develop our customers’ professional skills by providing unique courses and training services that exceeds their expectations. MISSION STATEMENT To develop the professional skills of lawyers around the World. CORE VALUES We believe in the principles of the Rule of law. We treat our customers with respect and good faith to establish long-term relationships. We grow through creativity, invention and innovation. We integrate honesty, integrity and business ethics into all aspects of our business. We believe in using the latest technology to assist us in reaching new markets. GOALS To expand both Geographically and in terms of market-share in legal-skills teaching/training and associated professional areas. To build a reputation for excellence. To become the main player in the global legal-training market.

OUR STRATEGY: To develop partnerships in key geographical markets with key legal To develop a full range of courses knowledge providers, regulatory and training to answer all legal, bodies and Universities. financial and other professional skills development needs. To develop and register our own range of professional exams and To develop strong consistent brand qualifications with Universities, and training product range. International and Government bodies. To open our own training centres in key geographical centres to service the needs of regional markets.

GENERAL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES: We have 3 areas of business which generate revenue. All of these relate to the www.british-legal-centre.com provision of legal or financial skills and courses to professional staff who want to improve their level of professional ability using the English language: We provide traditional live We provide on-line lessons We run intensive one and training events and courses in of legal skills, law and two week courses in classrooms and conferences. finance broadcast over the residential schools in These cover legal, financial, Internet to individuals and Ireland, Dubai, and environmental and groups (both in-house and elsewhere. professional topics. public).

www.british-legal-centre.com OUR MILESTONES: In 2013 we ran our first legal training events in Central Asia in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. In 2014 we ran our first live training events in Brazil, Qatar, Thailand and Indonesia. In 2015 we were authorized by the Gov’t of Dubai to run CLPD training under the scheme run by the Government of Dubai. In 2016 we ran training for the judiciary of the Dubai International Financial Centre. In 2018 we created our first course leading to International qualifications – FIDIC Construction Contracts Law and Practice Course. In the last 3 years we have formed associations with training companies, and Universities, to provide us with training premises in Cyprus, Dubai, Ireland, Vietnam, and Pakistan.

OUR MILESTONES: www.british-legal-centre.com During the past 11 years we have taught professional legal skills to lawyers and other professionals in many leading law, construction and audit companies in Europe and elsewhere. Our client list includes many of the World’s leading law and audit companies, organisations, and Fortune 500 commercial corporations around the World, including Shell Oil, Master Foods, ENKA (Turkey), DAMAC (UAE), EMBRACO/Whirlpool (Brazil), PHILIPS LIGHTING (Netherlands), MOWASALAT (Qatar) and NATO.

FEEDBACK: Although I work with contracts on a daily basis, after A substantial percentage of our work in Art Project taking the course I feel that I've started looking at the Management is administrative, in particular contracts, https://www.british-legal-centre.com/testimonials documents through a different lens. The architecture of agreements, NDAs, MoUs… Most of the time we manage the course and each individual lesson is very clear and this documentation in consultation with our experts from easy to follow. I appreciate the effort of the course specific departments such as Legal, Acquisitions or designer to structure all key concepts for each subject in Procurement, but we are required to understand the a way that it is conveyed as one whole picture. I also fundamentals of Contract Law. A few months ago we appreciate that the lessons included explanations on the attended a training course with Richard Brady from \"little\" details, which even experienced professionals British Legal Centre . The course was a complete overview sometimes overuse/misuse, maybe without even knowing of Contract Law, from the basics of the contractual it. In summary, the course provides a well-structured language (plain English is always the best way to go) to basis for writing legal documents. But, of course, it is up detailed clauses such as Confidentiality terms (very to each individual to continue doing further research and important in our field). I keep the contents of this course to practice writing to acquire the best result from the as a valuable consultancy resource. Totally recommended course.. for those in a similar situation. Olga Sadaeva, China, 24th July 2021, Ignacio Zamora, Project Management, Qatar Contract and Legal Document Drafting Course Museums, 26th November 2020, Contract Law Course Dear Mr. Richard, I would like to thank you for being my teacher for the Legal English Course. Your I have taken some formal legal studies in the past few years excellent teaching skills and courteous personality but I am not fully confident with my writing skills. As such, I has helped me a lot and without your helpfulness and was searching for a suitable writing course for over a year but directness, the course would have been more most writing courses in Australia are fairly short (one or two challenging. I appreciate you being always very kind, day courses) and costly. I enrolled in the Legal Writing Course patient, helpful and truly care about your profession with the British Legal Centre in January 2019. It took me and your students. I like that you refer to your close to two months outside of my work to complete it. The 60 personal work-related situations as examples when sessions are comprehensive, I've learnt so much from how to teaching a lesson along with a regular course outline. choose and use precise words, understanding the power of I have learned so much from you and I look forward persuasive writing and drafting good legal letters and the like. to learning more. Thank you for being a remarkable Also, Richard is an amazing legal English teacher. He speaks teacher and I am very grateful to you for being my clear and slow so non-native lawyers or law students should teacher! not have a problem understanding the sessions. I strongly recommend this course to law students, support staff who Zienab Brnawi, United Arab Emirates, work in the legal industry and new lawyers and conveyancers. 1st February 2021, Legal English Course Venus Chow, Australia, 7th March 2019, Legal Writing Course, pre-recorded

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