The Legal English Center

Improve your legal English: From the basics of grammar and vocabulary, to contracts and negotiating! 

We are an English school that specializes in legal English. In all of our classes, we focus on speaking, reading, writing, and listening, as well as on legal principles and professional culture.

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TOEIC Exam Preparation

We provide online preparation for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). This is a great place to start if you think the legal English courses will be too challenging at first.

Business English

Our online tutoring in the essentials of business English. We offer this at every level and for all skills: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. We also practice specialized language for negotiating, business law, and travel.

TOLES Exam Preparation

The TOLES (Test of Legal English Skills) provides proof of your level of English legal language and basic familiarity with common law concepts. It is offered at three levels, foundation (90 minutes), higher (90 minutes), and advanced (120 minutes).

LSAT Exam Preparation

We provide online preparation for all sections of the Law Schools Admission Test (LSAT). The LSAT is necessary for admission to law schools in the US and Canada for the JD degree in common law. It includes reading comprehension, logical reasoning, and argumentative writing sections.

Grammar, logic, and rhetoric for lawyers

This foundational course focuses on the linguistics of English law, for every level and for all skills: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. This is a great place to start your legal English studies. We offer 10- and 20-hour courses to prepare you for advanced training in legal English. This module will also give you a head start on the TOLES preparation courses.

Negotiating

This is an enjoyable and practical way to practice your speaking skills and learn business and law vocabulary, including common idioms. The course will boost your speaking self-confidence. It also includes practice in small talk. It prepares you for advanced training in legal English.


Business law ...

provides an overview of the essential grammar and expressions required for general concepts in business law. It is the first of a series of courses in this area that include commercial, contract, company, copyright, and banking law.

Commercial law ...

introduces the principles and language behind this very important part of the law. It includes practice in negotiation. Learn how to express in legal terms the many legal issues that commercial law addresses.

Contract law ...

examines the main concepts of contract law and the related vocabulary and grammar. We go beyond the main principles of contract law of offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity, and legality.

Company law ...

presents the important language to describe the various legal forms that companies can take. Like many of our other courses, company law examines both the common law and international law.

Copyright law ...

includes industrial, technological, and internet copyright law. This course will provide students with the vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills to stay up to date with all of the news related to technology transfer.

Banking law ...

encompasses a range of common law issues related to banking. The course includes fintech law as well. As with our other law courses, we will look at recent cases.

We offer specialized courses in law or legal skills on request!

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About the Legal English Center
Brian Welter has taught English since 2001 in South Korea, Canada, France, and Taiwan. In addition to a degree in History, he trained as an English teacher (Cambridge University: CELTA and DELTA; Chichester University: MA). He is currently studying for his PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Toulouse, where he is researching the teaching of legal English to English learners. Welter is interested in legal linguistics. He is also specialized in exam preparation.

The Legal English Center offers group classes and 1-1 or 1-2 tutoring online or in-person if you live in northern Taiwan.

Our law classes do not constitute legal advice.