A practical course in clarity, rhythm, framing and rhetorical technique for lawyers who work in English.
By Marc Roche
Format: Online self-study multimedia course with digital downloads
Level: B2–C2+ Legal English
Study mode: Self-paced
Eloquence for Lawyers Course | The Eloquent Lawyer
Learn how to make spoken and written legal language clearer, more controlled and more memorable. This polished multimedia course combines video and audio lessons with a digital book, practical frameworks, slides and exercises.
The Eloquent Lawyer is a self-paced multimedia course on the language choices that give legal writing and speech greater clarity, rhythm and force. Through video and audio lessons, examples and guided exercises, the course shows how to remove unnecessary legalese, reduce excessive hedging, create emphasis through sentence structure and frame difficult messages more effectively.
The course then introduces five rhetorical techniques: anaphora, epiphora, mesodiplosis, anadiplosis and alliteration. Learners examine how repetition, progression and sound can give an argument structure and memorability. The final section explores metaphor, unexpected word choices and other ways to make an important idea distinctive without sacrificing professionalism.
The multimedia self-studycourse includes:
- Structured online self-study modules
- Video and audio lessons
- The complete downloadable Eloquent Lawyer digital book
- Presentation slides and communication frameworks
- An initial communication diagnostic
- A seven-day practice program
- Guided rewriting and rhetorical exercises
- Before-and-after legal language examples
- Legal language reference sheets
- 25 high-impact legal verbs
- 10 outdated legal phrases and clearer alternatives
- A final self-assessment and practice plan
Designed for international lawyers, in-house legal professionals, paralegals, trainees and advanced Legal English learners. The course assumes a working command of English and focuses on professional expression rather than basic grammar or legal knowledge.
Follow the modules in sequence or return to a specific technique when preparing an email, memo, argument, presentation or difficult professional message. There are no scheduled classes or deadlines.
This version includes everything in the Digital Book & Audio Pack, together with video instruction and access to the structured online multimedia course.
Digital product for individual use only. No physical item will be shipped.
