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Legal Writing and Drafting Skills for Commercial and Contracts Managers Training Course (ONLINE EVENT: June 27, 2025)

  • Training

  • 1 Day
  • June 27, 2025 09:00-17:00 GMT+1
  • IPI Academy
  • ID: 5993302
OFF until May 23rd 2025

Commercial and contracts managers don't usually need to write contracts from scratch, but they do have to draft new clauses, amend, or update contracts, and write legal letters. A good understanding and grasp of clear legal writing and drafting skills is essential to fulfil this element of the role.

Under the careful guidance of the expert trainer, this course will ensure you gain a comprehensive understanding of the common pitfalls to be aware of. This intensive day will make sure you’re up to date with the key areas of risk and have a full understanding of the latest drafting techniques and writing skills in clear English. 

This course is also relevant for business owners and managers - well-written contracts are essential for protecting your company's interests. Business managers have valuable experience and knowledge to contribute to contracts and this can help make legal documents more precise, better-written and more effective for a company's goals.

This is a highly-practical course including many exercises to help embed the learning. There will also be time during the course to ask your questions and get clarity on contract drafting and legal writing technicalities. By attending this course and enhancing your skills and knowledge you will ensure you protect your organisation against unnecessary risk and be successful in your role.

Benefits of attending

By attending this highly practical course you will: 

  • Learn how to recognise drafting inaccuracies and effectively re-draft poorly written clauses
  • Draft effective standard clauses that can be used across the organisation to manage exposure to legal risk
  • Understand the principles of using plain English within your contracts to reduce uncertainty
  • Discover how to avoid over-complex sentences and structures to limit the risk of dispute
  • Develop more effective legal writing skills that can be used in all your legal and business communications

Certifications:

  • CPD: 6 hours for your records
  • Certificate of completion

Course Content

Guidelines to writing/drafting contracts in clear English
  • How to structure clauses
  • Using the language of obligation and discretion accurately: shall, may and must
  • Avoiding old-fashioned language
  • Effective use of provisos and exceptions (e.g. ‘provided that’ and ‘notwithstanding’)
  • Avoiding ambiguity
PRACTICAL EXERCISE: Redrafting clauses in clear English
During this practical session, participants will apply the principles above to redrafting a range of clauses from international commercial agreements. Both individual and group work exercises will be undertaken with results reviewed in a group forum and constructive feedback and guidance supplied by the expert trainer.

Legal correspondence: writing emails and letters with precision and clarity
  • Different types of written communication and their appropriate use
  • Examples of standard opening and closing
  • Differences between semi-formal and informal register
  • Structuring a letter of advice
  • Differences between British and American English
PRACTICAL EXERCISE: Drafting emails with precision and clarity
The participants will apply the principles above by redrafting a badly written piece of legal correspondence under the guidance of the expert trainer.

Advanced contract drafting practical exercise
With guidance from the expert trainer, participants will be working in small teams to draft a number of clauses from scratch based on written instructions taken from a membership agreement of a health club and a commercial lease.

Legal vocabulary
There will be a series of exercises to develop the knowledge of the participants of legal vocabulary.