Conference on Legal Translation of Contracts and Legislative Drafting Techniques

Overview:

Introduction:

Legal translation of contracts is a precise process that requires converting legal texts between languages while maintaining their legal and contextual accuracy. This conference is designed to present modern strategies in legal drafting that will help lawyers and professionals improve their performance in drafting legal documents. It will enable them to develop skills in using flexible and effective legal drafting techniques.

Conference Objectives:

By the end of the conference, participants will be able to:

• Master translation skills and the art of drafting, with a deep understanding of the characteristics and rules of English legal language.

• Learn the features of legal language and English drafting rules with illustrative examples.

• Apply legal terminology skills in contract translation and practice on various commercial and administrative contract models.

• Enhance creativity in legal drafting and writing legal and administrative memos and reports.

• Excel in preparing and drafting legislations, regulations, and circulars, while observing legal principles.

Target Audience:

• Legal translators.

• Lawyers and legal consultants.

• Specialists in legal drafting.

• Employees in legal departments.

• Legal writers.

Conference Outline:

Unit 1:

Legal Drafting Techniques:

• Concept and characteristics of legal drafting.

• Division of law and sources of legislation.

• Types of legislation and legal drafting methods.

• Recent changes and updates in drafting techniques.

Unit 2:

Methods and Tools for Legal Drafting:

• Tools and techniques of legal drafting.

• The difference between rigid and flexible drafting.

• How to effectively use both types of drafting.

• Innovations in legal drafting: New techniques and tools to improve drafting.

Unit 3:

Material and Substantive Drafting:

• General principles of legal drafting.

• Defects in legislative drafting and solutions to avoid them.

• Linguistic skills and drafting style.

Unit 4:

Interpretation of Regulations and Legal Decisions:

• Structure and nature of legal sentences.

• Characteristics of legal sentences and the methods used in constructing them.

• The use of words in legal texts.

• Case studies and interpretative examples of regulations and legal decisions.

Unit 5:

Drafting Legal Memos:

• Rules for using punctuation in legal memos.

• Legal memo drafting rules and types.

• Guidelines for drafting legal documents, papers, and contracts.

• Considerations for legal translation.

• Reviewing and editing legal memos.