“Mastering Legal English” (MLE) is a post-academic legal-English training programme for Dutch-speaking legal professionals working in English.
  • Designed by anglophone lawyers for Dutch lawyers
  • A flexible, modular approach
  • Small-group classes, with an online component
  • Suitable for all Dutch legal professionals

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Welcome to Mastering Legal English

MLE helps a Dutch lawyer to reach an even more professional level in his or her international practice. It is suitable for anyone seeking a proper introduction, a standard programme or a comprehensive refresher. Over the past 25 years, MLE (and its predecessor, PLE) have been taught to over a thousand Dutch legal professionals at many of the finest law firms, in-house legal departments and legal training organizations in the Netherlands.
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Practical Legal English

The PLE course helps Dutch legal professionals to work in English more easily, more effectively and more accurately.
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Grammar Plus

The Grammar Plus course is dubbed “grammar plus”, but it could also be called “verb plus” or the “heart of the sentence” programme.
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Better Legal Writing

The goal is to improve a Dutch legal professional’s ability to write in English by correcting errors relating to sentence structure, formality, style and politeness.
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Clearer Legal Writing

This is an English legal writing programme focused on a difficult area dubbed “modality”.
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