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to 200 words to secretary [at] euleta.org . Profiles of individuals should reflect you as a teaching
professional and not be commercially orientated. 

TRAINER ABCDE

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    

Contact: St-Gilles, Bruxelles / Belgium   Phone: +32 471716083   E-Mail: dbestio@yahoo.co.in   Website:

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

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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.

Mark Brophy
Contact: Lissone / Italy   Phone: +39 9140409 /  339 8475196 E-Mail: mark.brophy@english-training.it  
Website: www.english-training.it

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.

Agnieszka A. Chojecka
Contact: Poznán / Poland   Phone: +48 600 600 550  E-Mail: agnieszka.chw@wp.pl  Website:
www.legalenglish.net.pl    www.legaltalk.pl

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

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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.

Natasha Costello 
Contact: Paris Phone: +33 (0)6 31 61 72 00 E-mail: nclegalenglish@gmail.com LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-costello

Natasha Costello LLB, PGCE is British, a solicitor (non-practising) and former senior
lecturer in law at Manchester Metropolitan University. She currently works as an
independent teacher in Paris, France and teaches legal English to practising French
lawyers and to law students at various universities in the Paris area.

Natasha has over 16 years’ teaching experience and enjoys creating fun and practical
activities to encourage student participation and interaction. Natasha offers legal English
training in oral and written communication including legal writing, telephone skills,
negotiation, and advocacy. In addition, she runs workshops on 'Understanding and drafting
contracts in English' and 'Effective English Drafting'.

TRAINER FGHIJ

Myriam Farhand  
Contact: Ladenburg / Germany   Phone: +49(0)6203 93 82 68   E-Mail: info@english-for-law.de   Website:
www.english-for-law.de

Matt Firth
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Contact: Innsbruck / Austria   Phone: +4369919524267  E-Mail: matt.firth@me.com  Website:

www.legalenglishtrainer.com

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.

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.

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TRAINER KLMNO

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.

Louise Kulbicki 
Contact: Lecco/Italy Phone: +447711163485 E-Mail: Louise@studylegalenglish.com Website:
www.studylegalenglish.com

Louise is a British Legal English teacher and founder of Study Legal English which provides
Legal English resources to language learners including a free podcast. She holds a first
class degree and master's in Law and following university worked in the legal field working
on the development of international environmental law.

Since 2013 she has been teaching Legal English (including preparation for LL.M., TOLES,
and contract drafting), to people from around the world both in-house and online, spending
2013-2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and now currently based in Lecco, Italy. 

Szabó László
Contact:  Budapest / Hungary  Phone: +36-20-345-8702 E-Mail: ifj.szabo.laszlo@gmail.com   Website: 

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.

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Patrick Mustu
Contact: Düsseldorf / Germany   Phone: +49(0)0211 38 30 933  E-Mail: info@kanzleienglisch.de  
Website: www.kanzleienglisch.de

Anton Osminkin
Contact: Paris, France Email: anton.osminkin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

I am a Legal English trainer with ten years of professional experience both in Moscow and
in France (Caen and Paris). I have a Master’s degree in Economics and Law from Moscow
State University as well as from the University of Caen, France. I also have a diploma in
English linguistics and Translation from the same Institutions. From 2007 to 2013 I worked
as a legal English teacher and translator in the legal department of Capital Partners, a real
estate company. From 2016 till 2018 I was selected as an interpreter in the Court of
Appeal of Caen (Russian and French)

From 2016 until present I am teaching Business and Legal English both online and live to
various companies in Paris and at the New Sorbonne University (Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle Paris 3), where I am conducting research in jurilinguistics. Also, I prepare online
lectures on different subjects related to Legal English, based on the adopted results of my research work.    

TRAINER PQRST

Sofia Parastatidou
Contact: Bologna Italy Phone no. +39 051 266 842, Email: tolesitalia@gmail.com / parastatidou.s@gmail.com
Website: 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.

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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.

Elizabeth Staels
Contact: Paris, France E-mail : eslegalenglish@gmail.com  Phone: + 33 6 25 18 46 9

Elisabeth is a lawyer (former member of the Brussel’s Bar), an English teacher and a
coach. She studied Law at the University of Leuven, Belgium and holds an LLM from
King’s College London. She has a TEFL (Teaching English as a foreign language) degree.

Elisabeth is based in Paris where she teaches Legal English. She works with legal
professionals (lawyers and notaries) and law students at the Université Catholique de
Lille. Her additional training as a coach allows her to have a pragmatic approach to Legal
English teaching.

TRAINER UVWXYZ

Alison Wiebalck
Contact: Zurich, Switzerland  Phone: +41(0)44 9751270  Email: alison.wiebalck@legalenglishskills.com Website:
www.legalenglishskills.com

Founder of legalenglishskills.com and co-author of The Legal English Manual (2013),

Alison Wiebalck has been coaching legal professionals in legal English in and around
Zurich since 2004.

Alison holds a BA LLB from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; a Doctor of Laws
from UNISA, South Africa; a Masters of Applied Linguistics from the University of
Birmingham, UK, and the CELTA / SVEB 1 from Zurich, Switzerland. She is an active
member of the English Teachers Association of Switzerland (ETAS) and the European
Legal English Teachers Association (EULETA).

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