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Expert interviews

Learn about legal writing and oral advocacy by watching interviews with expert legal professionals

Quick guide to legal writing

Watch our training videos and learn how to write like a lawyer

Quick guide to oral advocacy

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Featured Videos

2017-02-08-EI-CJ-01 — The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma Tao-li (1): What...
An interview with The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma Tao-li about features and challenges of good legal writing and what he looks for in the writing that he is exposed to as a judge. Produced by legal English in Hong Kong, with support from the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. More videos at http://legalenglish.hk.
February 8, 20173625 views/by admin

2016-10-20 Sabrina (QGOA Ep 1) — Oral Advocacy (1): An overview
An instructional video about oral advocacy in mooting. This episode describes the mooting facts that are used in the rest of the series and introduces the mooters.
October 20, 2016758 views/by mwong

2016-03-18 Sabrina — Problem questions (1): An overview
An instructional video about writing legal problem question answers. This episode describes the problem question facts that are used in the rest of the series and introduces IRAC, a tool for legal argument.
March 19, 20162496 views/by Christoph

Latest Videos

2017-08-10-ST-Janet-Ainsworth — Professor Janet Ainsworth: How does the discourse of poli...
August 10, 201797 views/by admin

2017-08-08-ST-Audrey-Campbell-Moffat — The Honourable Mrs Justice Audrey Campbell-Moffat: Langua...
August 8, 2017109 views/by admin

2017-08-03-ST-Rajesh-Sharma — Dr Rajesh Sharma: The art and science of advocacy
August 3, 2017132 views/by admin

2017-08-01-ST-Janny-Leung — Dr Janny Leung: Tension and goals in legal communication
August 1, 2017181 views/by admin

2017-07-27-ST-Richard-Bates — Mr Richard Bates: Can we cure lawyers of legalese?
July 27, 201789 views/by admin

Version 2 — Dr Christoph A Hafner: Promoting effective legal communic...
July 25, 201781 views/by admin

2017-07-19-EI-Harp-Singh-03 — Mr Harprabdeep Singh (3): My composing process
July 19, 201771 views/by admin

2017-07-12-EI-Alexander-Mak-02 — Mr Alexander Mak (2): Advice on oral advocacy
July 12, 2017103 views/by admin

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