Legal English training built around your real work
The vocabulary you need, practised until it's yours to use without thinking.
Are you reading a contract in English for the third time, still not fully sure what it says?
Not only do you have to get it right, you have to do it in a language you didn't train in.
There's no time to check.
You read “material breach” in the contract. Does it mean a serious breach, or something else? It could be a false friend. But your comments are due tonight, and there's no time to check.
It never goes as planned.
The day before the negotiation call, you write out every question they might ask and every answer you'll give. Then, on the call, they ask something else.
Your trainee finishes your sentence.
On the call, someone asks something you didn't prepare for. You start to answer, but the word you need in English isn't there. Your trainee finishes the sentence for you.
You check it again and again.
The report on the call takes five minutes in your own language. In English, it takes thirty, because you check every line again and again.
Plenty of legal professionals feel exactly this. I built SpeechLex around real legal tasks — contracts, negotiations, live calls — because I know what it’s like to need the words and not have them.
With SpeechLex, you get the training to trust yourself in English, the same way you already trust yourself in your own language.
How I can help
Start with what your work needs today: the right words and grammar, regular practice, or help with one specific situation.
Learn it
Build the vocabulary and grammar you need, in general or in one area of law.
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Legal Language for Legal Life
Civil and Commercial Practice
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English Grammar for Legal Life
Live it
Keep your legal English active, and practise real tasks.
Legal English News Bites
One real legal news story every Friday, in a small live group online.
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Legal English Confidence Boost
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Walk-in Ready series
Level up
Specialised help for one specific situation in your work.
Not sure where to start?
Start free with the Legal English Movie Club
One film a month, its workbook, and a live session.
I’m Claudia, a former Italian lawyer, Vice President of EULETA, the European Legal English Teachers’ Association, and an authorised provider of TOLES, the Test of Legal English Skills, since 2017. I didn’t come to legal English as a language teacher. I came to it because I needed it myself, for a career I’d already started.
Free, every month
Legal English Movie Club
A free monthly club for legal professionals. Every month, I choose a film about law and show you the legal English in it: the key terms, and a few notes on the case, the jurisdiction or the courtroom. At the end of the month, we talk about it together, live.
When you sign up, you get your first film and its workbook right away, for free, with the legal terms to listen for as you watch. Then, every month, you receive the new film, its workbook, and the link to register for the live session.
