Legal Communication Skills Workshops and Coaching
What I offer
Workshops
On-site and virtual workshops on Legal Communications Skills and Legal Writing - incorporating work with Large Language Models and relevant scenarios drawn from everyday practice - designed in consultation with you to achieve the greatest possible relevance, flexibility, efficiency and effectiveness for your lawyers, tax advisors or auditors.
Sample projects:
International Atlantic Services, Portugal (part of the Mercan Group) - since 2024: On-site Legal Communication Skills workshops in Porto for the whole in-house legal team.
Helmholtz Zentrum München - 2024: On-site modular workshop series on Legal Communication Skills for the whole in-house legal team.
Sonntag & Partner (Germany) - since 2023: Virtual weekly group training on Legal Communication Skills for lawyers, tax advisors and auditors.
A&O Shearman (Germany) - since 2020: Virtual modular workshop series on Legal Drafting.
medac Group - since 2019: multiple on-site and virtual workshops on Legal Communication Skills and Legal Writing for the whole in-house legal team.
Munich Lawyers’ Association - 2018 to 2020: multiple on-site and vitual workshops on Legal Communication Skills and Legal Writing.
Baker McKenzie (DACH) - since 2018: multiple on-site and virtual two-day workshops on Legal Writing for the Inhouse University - optimising correspondence, advice and contract drafting.
Siemens AG & Siemens Mobility - since 2016: multiple on-site and virtual two-day Legal Writing Skills Workshops for in-house counsel and contract managers worldwide - optimising correspondence, advice and contract drafting; workshops on optimising communication between Legal and business partners.
Communication Skills Coaching
One-to-one and small-group coaching (on-site or virtual) tailored to suit individual needs. Focus: preparing for high-stakes conversations, negotiations, or presentations; optimising legal correspondence, advice or contract drafts, especially with reference to potential risks arising from conceptual differences across jurisdictions.
Many of my clients choose to combine Legal Communication Skills coaching with Rapid Transformational Coaching (RTC®). All my coaching is tailored to your needs.
Client sample:
medac Group - individual coaching for the whole legal team, including the Head of Legal & Insurance as well as the Associate Director of medac GmbH.
Wach und Meckes - small-group coaching for all Associates and Senior Associates.
Judge of the German Federal Court and the Unified Patent Court, Court of Appeal.
General Counsel, and Director of the US subsidiary of, a German company in the renewable energy sector.
Head of Claims Europe & DACH and Deputy MD DACH of Markel Insurance SE.
Legal translation (DE-EN) and post-editing
Legal translation (DE-EN) and post-editing of contracts, academic articles, court judgments and other complex legal texts.
Client sample:
d.velop AG - German-to-English legal translation of business-critical contracts in the Software-as-a-Service business.
Siemens AG - German-to-English legal translation and post-editing of IT contracts.
The Insititute for European and International Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business - post-editing academic articles.
The Augsburg Center for Global Economic Law and Regulation - German-to-English translation and post-editing of academic articles.