Paralegal position: upgrade your skills – 2022

Training Context

Reinvent yourself and your profession!

Paralegals experience a huge evolution in their work and therefore need to reinvent themselves by re-discovering fundamental skills with a contemporary perspective and/or by acquiring specific legal skills proper to their daily challenges.

Goals

At the end of the training, participants will have enhanced job and communication skills specific to their profession, while having been introduced to some of the subtleties of the Luxembourg legal framework.

Training Content

The training follows a modular system including 5 modules : 

Agenda and Learning Objectives

• Introductory Module – 16/09/2022 (from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
  • Identify the specificities of the Luxembourg legal centre (its history, the factors of its emergence, the impact on the law)
  • Understand the different institutions and sources of Luxembourg law
  • Understand the Luxembourg judicial organisation
• Corporate Law Module – 20/09/2022 (from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
  • Identify the different forms of legal companies in Luxembourg
  • Explain the different stages a company goes through in Luxembourg
  • Identify the role of corporate decision-making bodies
• Contract Law Module – 27/09/2022 (from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
  • Analyze the contract’s life cycle
  • Identify different contract types and their specificities
  • Identify key elements on which negotiation is based
• Administrative Work Module – 04/10/2022 (from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
  • Manage the study agenda efficiently
  • Write simple acts: convocations, agendas, minutes, deliberations of general meetings
  • Develop editorial reflexes
  • Prepare files and ensure their follow-up (Follow-up of deadlines and reminders, filing)
  • Manage correspondence with the parties
  • Adapt the firm’s practices to the General Data Protection Regulation
• Communication Module – ONLINE CLASS : 11/10/2022 + 18/10/2022 (from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) 
  • • Optimize communication: verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, reformulation, questioning techniques
    • Apply suitable legal language
    • Develop assertiveness

Teachers

• Thierry HOSCHEIT, First Vice-President @ District Court Luxembourg
  • Director of studies of the complementary courses in Luxembourg law  @ CCDL (Cours Complémentaires en Droit Luxembourgeois
• Isabelle CORBISIER, Full Professor in Civil Law
  • European and Comparative Commercial Law @ University of Luxembourg
• Peggy GOOSSENS, Avocat à la Cour & Partner @ Pierre Thielen Avocats
  • Founder of “Pierre Thielen Avocats SARL”
  • Head of the litigation departement
  • Responsible for law cases related to civil and commercial contracts as well as contractual and non-contractual liabilities
•  Kristina LAZATIAN, Président @Imagine Legal design
  • Managing Director La Law Box
  • Head of Innovation ERAGE
  • Certified design thinking facilitator
• Patrícia Oliveira, Avocat à la Cour & Partner @JuRiDex
  • Founder of JuRiDex, Avocats à la Cour
  • Lecturer at the University of Luxembourg

Contact

Pour toute information supplémentaire, veuillez contacter :

Alexandra Neves | +352 26 15 92 32

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