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www.legal-english.biz is part of The Pyramid Group.
Pyramid is owned and managed
by Paul East and is based in Ulm, Germany.
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Paul East
Paul East is the founder and managing director of The Pyramid Group which offers
a range of specialist English training (ESP) as well as providing translations
and interpreting in 58 langauges. He is also the owner of eBooks World, an
online publishing venture. He is the ELTAU president (English Language Teachers
Association of Ulm / Neu-Ulm) and President of the Ulm Toastmasters. Paul is
also active as the coordinator des International Association of Technical English
Trainers (IATET) as well as being a founding member of EULETA. Memberships
include Arbeitskreises für Technikgeschichte, Ulm, Ulm / Neu-Ulm Marketing
Clubs and BVMW (Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft Unternehmerverband
Deutschland e.V.). |
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Course Director Matt Firth
Matt is the ILEC Regional Manager for Austria and Germany and runs regular
workshops on teaching Legal English. He has recently completed an MA
dissertation on materials and course design in English for Legal Purposes,
and is co-author of the International Legal English (Cambridge University
Press) online research tasks. Matt also teaches English for Legal Purposes
at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland and the Hochschule Vaduz,
Liechtenstein. He is currently writing Introduction to International
Legal English (CUP, 2008) together with Amy Krois-Lindner,and is production
manager on the PLEAD Legal English blended learning course (TransLegal/Boston
University/Cambridge University Press). Matt Firth and Amy Krois-Linder
have been commissioned to produce a regular column on Legal English for
Business Spotlight. |
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James Faulkner
Jim taught English in London, Zambia, Spain and Romania before
settling in Hamburg in the late seventies. He holds degrees in history
and law, as well as a post-graduate certificate in education and a masters
in teaching English as a foreign language. Having decided to specialise
in legal English, he taught at the law faculties of Hamburg and Augsburg
before being appointed head of languages at Bucerius Law School, a post
he holds currently.His teaching interests include interactive teaching
based on legal content (case studies), contract drafting and mooting. He
is LS of an internal ESOL centre offering ILEC, and also offers courses
in law firms.
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Dorthe G.A. Engelhardt
Dorthe G. A. Engelhardt, M.A. (Norwich) taught English (EFL, EAP, EBP) at various
institutions of higher and further education in Germany. She became responsible
for Legal English language training at the Faculty of Law and Economics of
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald in 2001 when the English module
of the newly established LL.B. Programme was offered for the first time. Besides
ELP and EALP she has remained involved in EAP in general and EBP. At the beginning
of the academic year 2007/08 she launched a new two-year course leading to
the Greifswald Certificate in English for Law, which is intended to prepare
for the ILEC exam at the same time. She is one of the founding members of EULETA
and has held the post of treasurer since its establishment in March 2007.
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Ken Raphael
Ken is an American attorney with 30 years of experience in the practice of law.
Ken served as in-house counsel with several US-based, Fortune 500 companies
before relocating to Geneva, Switzerland in 2002. He is currently a professor
with the International University in Geneva where he teaches English Composition,
Corporate Governance, Business Law and International Law. Ken also teaches
Legal English and Commercial Law at the Moscow State University Faculty of
Law in Geneva. Ken is also certified by Cambridge University as a qualified
teacher of English as a Second Language. In addition to his university instruction
Ken teaches Legal and Business English.
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Alison Wiebalck Dr iur.
Born in the UK, Alison has a BA in English literature and linguistics
and an LLB from Macquarie University, Australia; a doctorate in international
law
from UNISA in South Africa, and the CELTA from Zurich, Switzerland. Alison
spent a number of years teaching general English before branching out into
business English in-company. In 2004 she began to specialise in legal English.
An active member of EULETA, Alison teaches legal English in private practice,
runs ILEC courses in Zurich, and is the coordinator for the ETAS ESP SIG (English
Teachers Association Switzerland English for Specific Purposes Special Interest
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