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• The EULETA Legal English Workshop 2024

  • Start
    20 Sep 2024
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • End
    22 Sep 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels

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  EULETA WORKSHOP 2024: practical activities for LEGAL ENGLISH teaching
  

  
  

  Co-organised by Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and EULETA

   FINAL REGISTRATION DATE: 15 AUGUST

  Download the programme here: 2024.07.02 2024 EULETA Workshop Programme.pdf
  

  Workshop INFORMATION 

  EULETA’s membership is made up of many people working in different capacities in legal English, for example: lawyers, linguists, translators, legal English trainers for professionals, and legal English university professors. This workshop, co-organised by Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and EULETA, aims to bring our diverse members together to share and find new practical ways of combining our expertise to improve our legal English teaching.
  

  We invite you to attend our workshop taking place LIVE in-person at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels.

  provisional SCHEDULE

  Friday 20 September 

  •  Afternoon: for those arriving early in Brussels, there will be an informal walking tour of the European quarter.

  • 19:00: meet and greet at a restaurant in Brussels (cost of food and drinks not included in workshop ticket)
    

  Saturday 21 September 

  • 8:30-9:00 Registration and welcome coffee
    
  • 9:00-9:45 Opening address
  • 9:45-11:15 Workshop sessions
  • 11:15-11:45 Tea & coffee break
  • 11:45-12:30 Workshop sessions
    
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch
  • 13:45-15:15 Workshop sessions
  • 15:15-15:45 Tea & coffee break
  • 15:45-16:30 Workshop sessions
  • 16:30 -18:30 Closing addresses and EULETA AGM
  • 20:00+ Dinner

  The cost of all workshop sessions, coffee breaks, lunch, and cultural activity are included in the workshop registration fee. Dinner on Saturday evening is also included, but the beverages are limited to water.
  

  Sunday 22 September
  

  • Cultural activity (to be defined)
    

  The price for this activity is included in workshop ticket.
  

  Accommodation

  Participants need to make own arrangements for accommodation.
  

  We recommend the areas Quartier du Châtelain or Flagey.

  CANCELLATION POLICY
  

  Cancellation up to and including 16 August 2024 23:59 CET: full refund
  
  Cancellation up to and including 10 September 2024 23:59 CET: 50 euro refund

  Cancellation after 10 September 2024 23:59 CET: no refund

  
  

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  If you have a question about the conference, please email secretary@euleta.org (Jennifer Hill).
  

  If you have a question about registration, please email webmaster@euleta.org (Thaís Darahem).
  

  NOTE: If you register using the "REGISTER" button, an invoice with your registration details will automatically be sent to your email. You do not need to manually register, or manually request an invoice.

            
  

  
  

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• External Speaker: Lisa Lipsky on "Plain language and the legal profession’s struggle with simplicity".

  • When
    8 Oct 2024
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  The EULETA External-Speaker Training Series features speakers who are experts in their fields and external to EULETA. The talks are on topics which are connected to our work as legal English teachers and which help our continued professional development. 

  Our next external speaker training event will be on Tuesday 8th October 2024 from 6 pm to 7.30 pm CET.

  Lisa Lipsky will be speaking about Plain language and the legal profession’s struggle with simplicity.

  About Lisa Lipsky's talk

  Lawyers and non-lawyers alike have been arguing against complicated legal language for decades; and yet, despite the rise of the plain language movement, demonstrated benefits of using plain language and emerging regulatory requirements mandating plain language in certain documents, the legal profession still clings to traditional, complicated drafting styles. Lisa will share her views from a private legal practice perspective on lawyers’ reluctance to embrace plain language, the barriers to change, and what it will take for lawyers to see that with plain language they can offer clients more with less.

  You will be invited to share your ideas on quantifying the tangible benefits of plain language and getting plain language buy-in from lawyers.

  About Lisa Lipsky

  Lisa is a former practising solicitor (admitted in England and Wales, and in Australia), and has worked as a transactional lawyer in Australia, Russia and France, and also as a knowledge support lawyer. Although no longer working as a lawyer, she continues to work in private legal practice in a role that involves a significant amount of content drafting. She is passionate about plain language and strives to change how lawyers communicate, challenging traditional
  approaches to legal writing and setting a standard and discipline of simple but effective plain language communication.
  

  This event is for EULETA members only. If you are not a EULETA member, you are welcome to join or renew your membership to attend this event.

  Registration is free and closes on 7th October.

  Please register here. After you register you will receive a confirmation email (check your spam). If you do not receive this, it means you are not registered correctly and you should contact us.

  We will send out a Zoom link on the day of the event.

  If you have any questions about this event or any suggestions for potential speakers, who are not EULETA members, please let us know at: internal@euleta.org.

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