International lawyer? Ask yourself…

1. Could you amend a share purchase agreement worth €100 million in English?
2. Could you negotiate warranties in English with a leading London Law firm?
3. Could you summarise the findings of the due diligence process in English for a client who wants only the most essential facts?
4. Could you draft a formal letter in English to the CEO of a major world bank?
5. Could you take part in a conference call in English with lawyers across three jurisdictions?

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:

1. Test of Reading
2. Test of Writing
3. Test of Listening
4. Test of Speaking

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.