FREE LIVE LEGAL ENGLISH WEBINAR
Better Legal Emails
How to Sound Clear, Professional, and Confident
Learn a practical method for writing legal emails that are clear, appropriately professional, and easy for the recipient to act upon.
Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · 11:00 GMT
12:00 London · 13:00 Central Europe · 15:00 Dubai/Tbilisi · 16:30 India
60 minutes · Live on Microsoft Teams · Free
What You Will Learn
During this practical webinar, you will learn how to make professional emails easier to understand, appropriately direct, and easier for the recipient to act upon.
Organize your message
Put the purpose, essential information, and required action in a logical order.
Choose the right tone
Sound confident and professional without becoming abrupt, aggressive, or excessively hesitant.
Write clear requests
State what you need, why you need it, and when it must be provided.
Edit unnecessary complexity
Replace vague, overly formal, or complicated language with clearer professional English.
Put the method into practice
This is not just a lecture. During a guided email clinic, you will examine a realistic professional email, identify what makes it unclear, and improve its most important parts.
Subject: Documents
Dear Ms Rossi,
Further to our previous correspondence regarding the above-mentioned matter, we would be grateful if you could provide us with the documents previously requested at your earliest convenience...
What exactly must Ms Rossi do—and by when?
1. Diagnose the problem
Identify the vague subject line, buried request, missing information, unclear deadline, and unnecessarily formal language.
2. Improve the email
Rewrite the subject line and request using the practical method introduced during the webinar.
3. Compare your revision
Compare your version with a model answer and use the editing checklist to evaluate its clarity, tone, and effectiveness.
You can complete the exercise privately on the worksheet or share an answer in the Teams chat. Speaking and camera use are entirely optional.
Is this webinar for you?
Who it is for
This webinar is designed for lawyers, junior lawyers, law students, legal translators, and other professionals who communicate about legal matters in English.
It is best suited to intermediate and advanced English users. No specialist knowledge of legal drafting is required.
Especially useful if you…
You will benefit whether you write legal emails every day or are preparing for future international legal work.
Meet Your Presenter: Timothy Barrett
Attorney, law professor, and Legal English educator
Timothy Barrett is an American attorney, law professor, and Legal English educator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has more than ten years’ experience teaching Legal, Business, and Academic English to lawyers, judges, law students, and other professionals. He is also the creator and host of the 4 Legal English Podcast, listened to in more than 185 countries.
- Former practicing attorney in the United States
- More than 1,000 students taught
- Creator of Elemental Legal English and host of the 4 Legal English Podcast
Webinar Registration
Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · 11:00 GMT
Free · Live on Microsoft Teams · 60 minutesThis webinar will not be recorded.
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