English for legal purposes

Dávid Juhar
The importance of
teaching legal English

• Law is inherently a communicative

profession
• Proficiency in English is crucial for
comprehending the subtle nuances and
intricacies of legal texts.7
• Legal research involves extensive
reading
• English is the primary language of legal
scholarship
Target audience
• Law students
• Corporate professionals
• Language instructors
• Government officials
• Interpreters and legal translators
Teaching
legal English
• Vocabulary
• Extensive reading
• roleplay
Useful resources for
teaching legal English
• Legal ESL resources - a website with grammar, dictionaries and
some legal vocabulary
• Linguahouse Business Law - lesson plans related to business law
(the lesson plans without the padlock icon are free to use without
subscription)
• Business English Pod - audio materials to do with the law
• Onestopenglish: Law - articles and lessons
• UsingEnglish.com - a few lesson plans and some legal vocabulary
• Best Legal English Podcasts - a website offering a choice of legal
English podcasts
• Discussion questions
• Law - a chart with several questions
• ESL vault: law - discussion questions and law idioms
• Youtube channels
• Study Legal English with Louise - plenty of videos here
• Legal English Cenre - a channel to recommend to Polish speakers
• Aims: To work with real documents,
and introduce new vocabulary based
on cases that happened in real life.

• Teaching aids: Computer, Projector,

Mobile phones, Textbook, Printed
version of legal documents

• Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

 • Introduction of new vocabulary (15 minutes)

Lesson •Document Analysis (20mins)

•Client Consultation Document Simulation (40 mins):

•Interactive Group Reflection Board (15 mins)