Congratulations  to V. Galbacheva on the ILEC exam in 2010! Good luck to you and Jasmina in your International Law studies in Lausanne!

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Additional materials:


ILEC sample test

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The Practice of Law

The legal profession >> >>

Common law >> >>

Civil law >> >>

Common law courts >> >>

Common law of Europe >> >>


Company formation and management

Homework: listening for details >> >> Business organizations >> >>

 

Capitalisation

Listing >> >>

Minority shareholders >> >>

 

Contract Law

Key words: consideration vs causa, vitiating factors, to the world at large, criterion, lapse, option agreement, unilateral contract, executory, binding, gratuitous, construe, ambiguous, privity, misrepresentation, discharge, duress, undue influence

 

Fill in the gaps >> >>

What is a contract? Download  >> >>

Performance and discharge Download >> >>

Offer and acceptance Download >> >>

Genuineness of assent Download >> >>



Remedies

Key words: condition vs. warranty, discharge, repudiation, anticipatory breach, rescission, R&R, injunction, specific performance, breach of the peace, judicial remedies, remedial goals, misappropriation, punitive (exemplary) damages, nominal damages, vindication, disgorgement, ascertained sum, by operation of law, unjust enrichment, subrogation, constructive trust, coercive award, rectification, discrepancies, discretion

Breach of contract >> >>

Writing task on remedies >>

Mistakes: phrases and collocations >> >>


Employment Law
What is employment law? Listen >> >>

 

Sale of Goods Skimreading Sale of Goods Act (1995) >> >>

Real Property Law
The really real >> >>

 

Intellectual Property Law

Fair use and legal vorticism >> >>

Blast 2 >> >>

 

Negotiable Instruments

Securities >> >>

Back to the drawing board >> >>


Secured Transactions



Debtor-Creditor Law

 

Competition Law Key words: cartel, trust, monopoly, The Sherman Act, felony, sentence, The Clayton Act, predatory, antitrust, anti-competitive conspiracies, bid rigging, price fixing, market allocation, partitioning, collusion, collusive agreement, circumstantial evidence, restrict, limit, eliminate, price discounts, courtesy bidding, bid rotation, subcontracting, detest, determine, call for tenders, proven beyond a reasonable doubt, abuse of market power, contravene, exclusive dealing, refusal to deal, M&A

 

 

See also

Legal English course >>


the PLEAD  course >>

 

FIINANCIAL LAW >>

 

Info & recognition: www.legalenglishtest.org

 


4 practice tests in the ILEC format

 

 

 

Legal writing resources:

 

 

 

Orwell's style guide from 'Politics and the English Language' >>

William Strunk's classic 'The Elements of Style' >> >>

Fowler's The King's English >> >>

Manual of parliamentary procedure >> >>

Free legal forms >> >>

Legal forms archive >> >> 

LawInfo forms >> >>


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask your teacher for an enrolment key.

Tips on writing to opposing attorneys >> >>

How to write letters nonlawyers will read >> >>

Confirming letters >> >>

How to write an effective demand letter >> >>

Legal writing in plain English >> >>

Applied legal storytelling, politics, and factual realism >> >>

Analogies to precedent >> >>

The ten commandments of brief-writing >> >> 

Grammar and composition for lawyers >> >>


 

 

Legal research

 

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Supreme Court archive of decisions from Cornell >> >> 

US Code, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson >> >>

The Golden state law >> >>

The Empire strikes back. Bloomberg Law >>

 

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