The legal profession swears by the maxim, “verba volant, scripta manent” which means spoken words fly away, written words remain! In business, contracts are extremely important and often play a central role in a company’s success. Whether people are drafting contracts for builders, construction management contracts, a real estate contract or any other contract, it is essential for them to draft effective business contracts.
Legal drafting has always been the most important instrument of legal communication. The skill to draft well is the skill to think and communicate well. Therefore, it is important to recognize the purpose that a legal document has to serve. A legal document must be drafted in a way that it categorically specifies the legal issue, statements of the client and the remedies sought if any.
The whole legal scenario has in recent times seen a radical shift in its mode of functioning. Not so long ago, it was like a closed society with law firms offering comprehensive services to their clients. Every aspect was taken care of in-house and when there was a rise in business budding and promising lawyers were hired to look after certain tedious and mundane tasks while legal luminaries took care of the more serious facets such as interpretation and dissection of law.
This was the arrangement that had prevailed since time immemorial until economic upheavals in the recent past disturbed the very foundation of most industries including the legal sector and necessitated large scale changes.
A well-drafted document is equivalent to a strong argument in today’s competitive world where time is of essence and hence a well drafted document can make or break a case! A legal document, whether it is a contract, written statement or an affidavit, serves two purposes- informing and engaging both the client and the court about the legal issue. It becomes essential for lawyers and judges to draft all legal documents with precision, to clearly depict all essential facts as well as engage a layman to its content. A lawyer equipped with legal drafting skills is able to identify his target audience who is going to read the document. The content of a legal document must be understood by the audience who is reading it. Legal drafting skills are also important as they ensure that the legal document is structured properly. An unstructured document without balance lacks effectiveness. A document free of such failures and errors is considered most authentic and effective.
The advance Contract drafting and legal writing course is for practicing lawyers, law students, and all corporate professionals, business managers, entrepreneurs who need to understand the nuances of a legal contract and should also know how to write a good contract.
Legal Writing and Contract Drafting is extremely crucial for not just the legal sector for lawyers, judges and those in the paralegal profession but also for professionals working in companies as a well drafted document would aid the author of the document to persuade the reader and hence achieve the purpose for which the document has been written.
The topics covered by Enhelion for the subject
- Module 1:Structure and Style of Legal Writing
- Module 2:Pre-contract Negotiations
- Module 3:Understanding Contract Purpose and Form
- Module 4:Drafting a Contracts
- Module 5:Preliminary Agreement Forms
Enhelion’s course is very useful as it will help the paritcipants to improve on the points where the legal document lacks from the perspective of drafting skills enhancing the ability to produce crisp documents and also to acquaint a layman with the intention of the legal document.
Participants will learn how to:
- Use the techniques of clear writing to express legal concepts
- Avoid basic contract drafting errors which invalidate contracts
- Recognize the characteristics of good drafting
- Be able to draft well structured, practical, clear and concise letters and documents
- Be able to comment effectively and sensibly on other lawyers’ documents
- Approach drafting and legal writing with increased confidence
- Use clear specific words and phrases to set out obligations and benefits
For more details on our Online Certification Course On Contract Drafting Contact Us or write to us on info@enhelion.com