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Sofia Parastatidou
Contact: Bologna Italy Phone no. +39 051 266 842, Email: tolesitalia@gmail.com / parastatidou.s@gmail.comWebsite: https://tolesitalia.com ; https://formazioneprofessionaleblog.wordpress.com
Qualified as a UK lawyer and former member of the New York Bar Association, Sofia is now based in Italy where she trains lawyers, accountants and notaries through the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili and the Ordine degli Avvocati. She also trains psychologists through the Ordine dei psicologi di Emilia Romagna and C-Level directors in many multinational and national companies.
She has also taught law students at various universities, master courses and post -graduate courses. She also runs training courses for in-house Counsel (giuristi d’impresa), translators and other professionals.
She teaches Legal English, Finance English and Business English as well as Contract Law, Commercial Law, Company Law, Trusts, Banking Law, Intellectual Property, International Trade Law, Customs Law, Freight Forwarding, Aviation & Maritime Law, Franchising, Accounting and Taxation. She has also held courses in UK/US Practice and Procedure Courses for judges in Bologna.
A registered TOLES trainer and examiner, Sofia is passionate about not only training up-and-coming lawyers in law subjects or language but also in soft-skill acquisition. To this end, she also trains in effective writing, presentation and public speaking skills, debating, negotiation and mediation skills.
She provides consultancy to Italian professionals who wish to train and re-qualify in common law jurisdictions through the up-coming SQE (currently QLTS) or for accountants to become Chartered Accountants in UK.
Stefano Enepi
Contact: London, United Kingdom, Phone: +44 (0) 747 760 0594, E-Mail: hello@legalenglishlessons.com, Websites: www.britishenglishlessons.com and www.legalenglishlessons.com
Stefano is a CELTA qualified teacher from London who is also a qualified UK Lawyer.
In 2010 after passing a TEFL course he moved to Brazil with his family where he taught English in companies, people's homes, online and in a school. He teaches General, Business and Legal English (TOLES/ILEC) and has successfully prepared students for IELTS exams. Since his family moved back to the UK in 2014, he has taught English fulltime to many students of many different nationalities.
He also has experience of working in IT, sales and customer service across 3 continents.
Olga Grishyna
Contact: Odessa / Ukraine Phone: 0038050-410-81-03 E-Mail: legal-english@ukr.net Website: http://legal-english.in.ua
Olga is a lawyer-linguist
having her private practice established in 2004. As a professional
teacher of English (Philologist; Teacher of English language and
literature) and a qualified lawyer (State Administration and
International Relationships), her activity has always been closely
connected with teaching, jurisprudence and translation. As a Legal English trainer,
Olga delivers the course to both future lawyers and legal professionals
from private and public sectors. She has participated in various
international and domestic projects.
Among the courses developed and successfully implemented – Legal English (comprehensive course for legal practitioners), Legal Writing (with accent on plain English), Contract Language, Interviewing and Advising, Legal English for Secretaries.
Olga is a co-author of
English-Ukrainian Dictionary of Legal Terms and an author of
English-Ukrainian Explanatory Dictionary of Legal Terms Used in Maritime
Law.
Tom Heaven
Contact: Berlin / Germany Phone: +49(0)17671287031 E-Mail: tom@tomheaven.com Website: http:// tomheaven.com
I hold a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Cardiff University, during the completion of which I attended assessed courses at Universität Trier. I have experience of teaching lawyers and legal professionals. I also have experience of working in the fields of copyright and licensing.Agneszka Kocel
Contact: Poland / Phone: +48509 116 883 E-Mail: agakocel@op.pl biuro@linglex.pl Website: www.linglex.pl
I’m a Ph.D. holder, a university lecturer and a sworn
translator/interpreter, specializing in legal translation and conference
interpreting. I have graduated from the University of Warsaw in Poland,
where I obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. degree, followed by two years of
post-graduate training in conference interpreting and a few years of
teaching experience both in Poland and England. I am particularly
interested in comparing legal systems of various countries and currently
I am doing research related to insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings in
Poland, Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. I have
set up LingLex, a School of Legal English, which offers courses and
seminars on various aspects of Legal English and I run Legal English
classes, teaching lawyers and business people. At the moment, I am also
working on my own Legal English coursebook, which I will have published
in the near future. English, and Legal English in particular, has always
been my great passion, which ensures that whatever I do in terms of my
work, I also do as part of what I identify with.
Sophia Barinova
Contact: Russia / St.Petersburg Phone: +7 (812) 963 40 62 E-Mail: info@legalenglishcentre.com Website: www.legalenglishcentre.com
Sophia Barinova is a Legal English trainer and language consultant;
director of an authorised TOLES Exams center (Test of Legal English
Skills) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sophia also holds PhD in English and
German, and works for the Leningrad State University.David Best
David has taught ESP/Legal English/English for Economics, Management and Marketing (combined with EU Multilingualism/Translation Policy) within the Faculty of Law, Université libre de Bruxelles since 2011. He holds a BA in European Studies, Languages and Literatures (1999) and a PhD in Italian Studies (2008), both from University College Cork, Ireland.
Previous to embarking on the field of Legal English in 2011, he lectured for ten years on Italian language, literature and cultural studies at University College Cork, at the University of St Andrews, and at Trinity College Dublin; then on English Language and Translation at l’Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’
He has published mainly on 20th/21st-century Italian literature. His latest research concerns EU legal terminology and the “untranslatability” of legal language in the supranational EU context. An article-chapter entitled “Equal respect or equal effect: the untranslatability of legal terminology and its impact on language parity in the EU” is forthcoming in a collected volume to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2015.
Myriam Farhand
Patrick Mustu
Matt Firth
Matt Firth teaches Legal English at the University of St. Gallen, the Hochschule Vaduz, and the Management Centre Innsbruck. He is Academic Director at TransLegal, the world`s largest provider of Legal English courses and materials.
Matt has authored many Legal English courses with TransLegal, and also edits an online Dictionary of Law. He organises regular workshops for teachers, as well as training seminars for lawyers and businesspeople. His recent publications include Introduction to International Legal English, several teacher`s books in academic English, and a series of online workbooks. Matt also writes the Legal English column for Business Spotlight.
Matt has organized many training seminars for teachers of Legal English across Austria and around the world. His work as EULETA representative includes encouraging networking between teachers, supporting new Legal English initiatives in Austria, and establishing a regular ideas swap shop.
David Thornton
David Thornton has been working in ELT since 1998, with experience of teaching in the UK (Oxford and Bath) and Italy (Palermo), including at International House and Bell English Language Schools. Currently a University Teacher and Trainer specialising in accredited (ESP) courses – Legal English, Financial English and Business English – in Further and Higher Education institutions, for professional associations such as the Association of Chartered Accountants (l`Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili), independent legal and financial professionals and businesses.
As well as Teacher Training/Certification courses, as of 2015 also a Teacher Trainer/Conference Presenter in Italy for Cambridge English Language Assessment, University of Cambridge. Professional responsibilities also encompass editing and translating academic papers for academic journals at the Law Faculty and other faculties and universities. Driven by sharing the passion for the teaching/learning process in ELT.
Mark Brophy
I graduated from Manchester University in Management Sciences and worked
in the UK in industry and IT for a few years before moving to Monza,
Italy in the mid 1990s. My client base includes multinational
organisations as well as tax consultants and legal professionals. I
teach specialized courses to the local branches of both the Law Society (Ordine degli Avvocati) and Chartered Accountants (Ordine dei Dottor Commercialisti e Esperti Contabili)
as well as many local private law and tax firms. Through my role as
EULETA Board member I have an extensive network of contacts throughout
Europe and regulary organize international seminars with professional in
other European countries.
Rebecca van Es
I have a bachelor of arts degree in English literature & psychology,
a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Cape Town, and an LL.M
in international legal studies from New York University. I have lived
in Berlin since 2010 and have since then taught several legal English
courses in Berlin and Brandenburg, primarily to law students at the
University of Potsdam. I continue to teach at the University Potsdam,
where I also give private legal English lessons to one of the law
professors.
Szabó László
Szabó László is a certified translator in English-Hungarian languages, working in law. He worked as an in-house translator at a market-leading Hungarian translation company for 8 years, then as a freelancer, working for major UK and Hungarian translation companies, translating texts in law.
He holds a degree in teaching English. His studies covered four years of studies in linguistics. Then he completed a six-month law course provided by the University of London, and also passed TOLES at its advanced level. In summary of more than 15 years of translations in law, he has written a book on legal English, duly proofread by a U.S. attorney and linguist, which was acknowledged by an Oxford Law Professor as "a masterly work".
In 2017, he participated as speaker at the Bialystok Legal English Conference and as a speaker at the Brno workshop of EULETA.
Agnieszka A. Chojecka
A legal English tutor and language consultant
I graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (the English Philology Department). Since 1998 I have been teaching business professionals and since 2004 I have focused on legal and financial English and tutored law students, legal trainees, advocates, legal advisers, tax advisers, accountants and judges of common and administrative courts. In my Legal English Centre, an authorised TOLES exam centre, I offer workshops for lawyers, group courses and individual tuition.
I can help legal professionals to:
- work on effective legal writing and contract drafting
- prepare for the TOLES exams
- practise presentation and negotiation skills
- improve vocabulary in their areas of expertise
- increase confidence, fluency and accuracy in speech.
I have designed and published my study materials (Civil Procedure Terminology: Survival Guide for Polish Lawyers; Prepositions in Legal Use and More: Networks of Meaning, Higher level and Advanced level; Employment Law Terminology: Survival Guide for Polish Lawyers).
My students benefit from guidance on how to:
- memorise legal vocabulary most efficiently
- take advantage of their individual learning styles
- become independent language learners.
Dr. Mark Spittle
Mark is a PhD-qualified Engineer and European Patent Attorney, with 7
years of experience as a CELTA-qualified teacher of English to adults.
In addition to his work as a consultant in Intellectual Property Law, Mark is also a part-time lecturer in Academic, Technical and Legal English at the University of South Wales and delivers the university’s International Foundation Programme module in Law.
Mark also runs his own private language training company – International Legal English Ltd. – which provides courses in Legal English (including preparation courses for the TOLES suite of Legal English examinations), as well as professional training courses on behalf of Swansea University’s English Language Training Services.