Showing posts with label Attenza Law Firm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attenza Law Firm. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Attorney Karen Lundquist Offers Online Legal English Courses on Employment Law

International Students Learn Effective Negotiation & Arbitration Skills Virtually

Minneapolis, MN, October 24, 2011 - Minneapolis business attorney and tenured legal Engish professor, Karen Lundquist, announces the availability of Global E-Learning courses on employment law and negotiation techniques, as well as various other legal English topics. Areas of the law addressed include wrongful employment terminations, non-competition agreement violations, intellectual property, misappropriation of trade secrets and more. The next course is scheduled to begin in January 2012. Full details and sign-up information are available at KarenLundquist.com.

Carefully designed virtual classrooms and syllabi accommodate students and their needs to develop legal English vocabulary as well as powerful negotiation skills in areas of the law that pertain to their given careers. International students benefit from courses which are designed on real-life fact patterns. Mimicking scenarios encountered in worldwide courtrooms and conference rooms, students represent fictitious clientele and engage in:

* Mock settlement negotiations;

* Client interviews;

* Interpretation of case files;

* Dispute arbitration;

* More...

By acting as attorneys, students encounter opportunities to use the technical legal English vocabulary terms they have been studying and need for their profession. At the same time, they hone their lawyering skills that they use when practicing law in their native tongues. Karen states, "The important fact about these courses is not necessarily the topic, such as employment law or intellectual property, but that they revolve around real-life fact patterns with correspondence, affidavits and other documents that an attorney would deal with if working in a real law firm."

To further simulate the authenticity of real life courtroom situations and negotiations, students are also able to initiate "break-out sessions", time periods where they can have confidential discussions in private before returning to the main classroom where the negotiation or arbitration is taking place. Karen concludes, "This course is important and useful because it gives participants chances to learn in the best way possible: by doing."

About Karen Lundquist: Karen Lundquist is a multilingual business attorney who owns the Attenza Law Firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is also a veteran professor of English, serving for two decades as a cultured, caring instructor. She specializes in training professionals from various legal realms in developing specific legal-based vocabulary sets that are integral for their abilities to perform an array of spoken career duties. Catering to a global market of legal professionals that need to develop legal English vocabularies, Karen can be reached at http://karenlundquist.com.

Contact:
Karen Lundquist
Legal Language Consultant
Attenza Law, LLC
125 Main St. SE, Suite 250
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Tel: 001-612-702-1399
Fax: 001-651-379-5503

Friday, September 30, 2011

Prominent Minneapolis Attorney/Linguist Offers Online Legal English Instruction

Non-Native English Speakers Learn Industry-Specific Legal English Terminology

Minneapolis, MN, October 01, 2011 - Karen Lundquist, a leading Minneapolis business attorney and veteran English instructor, offers expert instruction in legal English terminology for attorneys and other legal professionals. Her online services cater to the needs of any and all professionals who are required to engage audiences using specific legal English vocabulary, yet lack the verbal efficiency needed to convey their messages effectively. In a nutshell, Karen teaches non-native English speakers the legal English terms and vocabulary they need to excel in their respective legal fields.

By visiting karenlundquist.com, authorities from law firms, law schools, governmental agencies and many other industries are able to benefit from the following services:

* Private Legal Language Coaching
* Small Group Classes
* Weekly Online Discussion Forums
* Global e-Law Courses
* Translation & Language Consulting Services

Lawyers, law students and others that speak English as a second language regularly experience difficulties communicating effectively in various career-based scenarios. On a worldwide basis, legal authorities from all business realms are finding that they need to confidently express technical legal jargon in English, not their native languages. Often, receiving traditional instruction in English fails to teach the vocabulary necessary to speak assuredly and authoritatively in courtrooms and/or other formalized business settings. Karen accommodates focused online learning sessions in which her students concentrate on the specific legal English requirements needed for their particular practice areas of law.

Karen Lundquist graduated with honors from William Mitchell College of Law in 2005 and now owns the Attenza Law Firm. She developed her love for culture, language and the legal process before attending law school while living in Italy, Chile and Mexico. Miss Lundquist also taught English as a foreign language in Rome, Italy for more than a decade before entering William Mitchell. Karen is currently the Co-Director of the Business Practicum at William Mitchell College of Law and teaches in the LLM program at the University of Minnesota Law School where she instructs foreign attorneys in legal writing and research. For six years, she served as the coordinator and instructor for William Mitchell’s Summer Institute on American Law, a summer study abroad for Turkish lawyers and law students.

Speaking English, Spanish and Italian fluently, she assists her global clientele in developing the presence and confidence they need to rise up and excel in their legal professions. Karen states, “Law is very technical subject matter and using English for the law is very different than using it for everyday purposes. With my experiences as a language teacher, my students gain the fluency that they need and want so they are able to speak about legal matters in English confidently. Additionally, with my experiences as an attorney, my students can talk to me about the law and know that I understand, something that few other language teachers can do.”

About Karen Lundquist: Karen Lundquist is a multilingual business attorney who owns the Attenza Law Firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is also a veteran professor of English, serving for two decades as a cultured, caring instructor. She specializes in training professionals from various legal realms in mastering specific legal English vocabulary that is integral for their abilities to perform an array of spoken career duties. Catering to a global market of legal professionals that need to develop legal English, Karen can be reached at http://www.karenlundquist.com.

Contact:
Karen Lundquist
Legal Language Consultant
Attenza Law, LLC
125 Main St. SE, Suite 250
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Tel: 001-612-702-1399
Fax: 001-651-379-5503