American Legal Concepts

Law Talk helps foreign lawyers understand and work with American legal concepts.  Law Talk delivers that understanding quickly, freeing up lawyer time for higher-value activities.

A foreign lawyer could of course obtain the understanding alone, using the knowledge base and research skills common to all laywers.  However, self-instruction would take much, much longer.

Wooden man and bookFor a lawyer in a law firm, the need to better understand and work with American legal concepts might relate to business development: when pitching to an American company or attending an international conference, it’s useful to explain France-based experience and skills in a way that’s easily understood to a counterpart operating within an American law framework.  Alternately, the need might relate to an open client matter: a France-based transaction or dispute might involve issues of American law; or if the client or cooperating counsel is American, then ongoing communication will be facilitated by making France-based issues and analysis easily understood within an American law framework.

For an in-house company lawyer (or administrative and finance director with legal oversight responsibilities), the need to better understand and work with American legal concepts arises in two areas: managing an international or American law firm for US-related matters; and negotiating and otherwise communicating with American suppliers, clients, and partners.

In these situations, the need goes beyond simple English grammar and vocabulary: what’s needed is a higher-level understanding of American legal doctrine.

Law Talk training can be customized to meet precise needs, addressing the specific points most relevant for the situation.  Training can be one-on-one or in groups.  In a group training, everyone can be from the same organization, or the training can be a workshop combining lawyers from different organizations.  There’s a solution for every need.

Some of the Law Talk training topics are listed below.  This list isn’t exhaustive.  Click here to schedule a training at your office.  Or if you prefer a group workshop, then click here to indicate which topics interest you, and we’ll contact you when we’re organizing a group workshop on a topic of interest to you.

Administrative law

Bankruptcy

Bond financing

Civil procedure

Competition (antitrust)

Conflict of laws

Constitutional law

Consumer protection

Contract drafting

Contract law

Corporate/companies law

Courts (federal and state)

Discovery

Employment and labor law

Enforcement of foreign judgments

Environmental protection

 

 

 

Evidence

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Immigration

Income tax

Insurance

Intellectual property

IPOs

Leasing and landlord-tenant law

Legal ethics

Legislative process

Loans (secured and unsecured)

Lobbying and government relations

Mergers and acquisitions

Non-disclosure and non-compete agreements

Nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations

Partnerships and joint ventures

 

Personal injury liability (torts)

Privacy

Private equity placements

Property acquisition and development

Property tax

Public-private partnerships

Real estate finance

Real property

Remedies

Sale of goods (the UCC)

Sarbanes-Oxley

Securities regulation

Telecom, broadcast, and Internet

Trade secrets

Trusts

US legal system