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Legal Writing in Arabic Meirc Plus Speciality Training

Legal Writing in Arabic

Why Attend

This course focuses on clear legal writing in Arabic. Effective communication with lawyers is about more than simply words. It entails understanding the unique way lawyers think and approach the legal, political, and business world.

During this Arabic course, a number of legal documents are discussed, including drafting contracts, contracts, letters, laws and legal reports. Participants also look at a wide variety of commercial agreements during practical drafting sessions. This course helps participants to draft confidently and effectively in Arabic regardless of the governing law.

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Overview
Course Methodology

The course consists of group discussions as well as individual and team tasks. There will be writing practice throughout the exercises.

Course Objectives

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

  • Apply a plain Arabic style of writing to all legal documents
  • Recognize the need for legal clarity in different types of legal documents: legal letters, emails, memorandum and opinions
  • Apply good legal writing practice
  • Use best practice techniques to write contracts, letters, legislation and legal reports 
  • Correct common mistakes in legal writing 
  • Address and deal with challenges and issues relating to the use of legal jargon
  • Proofread effectively 
Target Audience

The course is suitable for Arabic speakers looking for a better understanding of how to write Arabic legal documents.  This course is for lawyers, legal secretaries, commercial managers, contract managers, HR executives and managers, purchasing managers, tender executives and anyone who must draft, amend or update contracts, legal letters and company policies and bylaws. 

Target Competencies
  • Drafting letters, policies, company bylaws and contracts
  • Proofreading
  • Writing in plain Arabic
  • Understanding legal terms
  • Legal writing practice
Note

The Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department has introduced a Continuing Legal Professional Development (CLPD) programme to legal consultants authorised to practice through a licensed firm in the Emirate of Dubai.  We are proud to announce that the Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department has accredited EMG Associates as a CLPD provider. In addition, all our legal programmes have been approved.

Course Outline
  •  Basic legal writing concepts and the basics of contract drafting
    • The various types of legal documents
    • Tips in writing legal documents
    • The various factors affecting legal writing
    • The practice importance of good legal writing
    • Contracts ; the most important legal document
    • Definition and main elements of contracts
    • Identifying the legal formalities for a binding contract
  •  Contract Drafting
    • Structure and formation of a commercial contract: following the formula
    • Understand the contracting phases ; your gateway to good contracts
    • Building the team to draft contracts
    • Three strategies to draft good contracts
    • The Importance of asking the right questions in building contracts
    • The importance of Boilerplate clauses
    • What to write and not to write in a contract
  • Plain Arabic in writing a legal letter
    • Good legal writing practice
    • Pitfalls and issues relating to the use of legal jargon in legal writing
    • Writing different types of legal letters
    • Layout of a letter
    • Body of a letter
    • Putting a letter together
    • Typical sentences in legal letters
    • The letter writing clinic: looking at the ten most common problems
  • Writing laws, bylaws and Instructions
    • Layout of a law or a  bylaw
    • Body of a law or bylaw
    • How to write the best law or bylaw
    • Understanding the principles of legal interpretation
    • The four defects that affect legislative  legal writing
    • Use of consistent terminology
    • The process of legislation writing ; step by step
  •  Writing Legal Reports
    • The Importance  and necessity of legal reports
    • Layout of a legal report
    • Body of a legal report
    • How to write the best legal report
    • The various methods of writing legal reports
    • Successful legal report writing ; follow the steps
Schedule & Fees

2025 Schedule & Fees

There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.

2026 Schedule & Fees
Per participant
  • 12 - 16 Apr, 2026
  • Arabic
  • Riyadh
  • Venue to be assigned
Per participant
  • 6 - 10 Dec, 2026
  • Arabic
  • Riyadh
  • Venue to be assigned
Fees + VAT as applicable (including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily) Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

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Course Contact
Alissar N.
+971 56 682 4136
[email protected]
Contact me if you have any questions.
I speak English & Arabic!