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International lawyer? Ask yourself…
In other words…Is your legal English good enough for the best law firms in the world?
The Cambridge ILEC – International Legal English Certificate – meets these needs!
What is ILEC?
ILEC is a Cambridge ESOL examination, developed in co-operation with TransLegal – Europe’s leading firm of lawyer-linguists. The exam is a high-level legal-oriented language qualification for lawyers and law students set at levels B2 to C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
The exam is based on realistic tasks of the kind that legal practitioners would be expected to encounter in their daily working lives. Successful candidates are able to use the language in practical situations, to participate in meetings, negotiations, and discussions of a legal nature, express opinions clearly are able to understand and produce texts such a legal correspondence and memoranda. Starting in 2010, the ILEC exam will be offered once a month. The examination tests the full range of communications skills needed by legal practitioners, takes approximately four hours in total and consists of four papers:
Internationally recognised
ILEC is recognised by leading associations of lawyers including the European Company Lawyers Association, the European Law Students Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers, and the European Young Bar Association.
The exam is also recognized by leading academic institutions such as the College of Europe.