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🗒️ About this episode: In Episode 137 of the Study Legal English Podcast, I interview Barrie J. Roberts, author of "The Getting to Yes Guide for ESL Students and Professionals: Principled Negotiation for Non-Native Speakers of English." Barrie shares insights from her unique car ... Show More

🗒️ About this episode: In this episode, I'm joined by Natasha Costello to share our top three tips for effective legal email writing. We dive into how to start emails, ensure clarity, and structure your messages for a professional impact. If you'd like to improve your legal writ ... Show More

🗒️ About this episode: In this special episode, I'm joined by Natasha Costello to celebrate the one-year anniversary of our book, "Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers." The episode answers key questions from listeners and readers and includes information on upcoming co ... Show More

Here's an idea from one of my group classes - laws and justice. I think it's a really interesting topic to discuss. Are there any laws we shouldn't be following?What laws would you make?What laws would you abolish?We also look at a few good and relevant expressions ... Show More

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're introducing a new series of podcast episodes called "Listen and Learn," where we're going to review substantive areas of the law and apply some of that law to facts. In this episode, we're talking about the Commerce Cla ... Show More

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In today's episode from our "Listen and Learn" series, we're discussing the Taxing and Spending Clause of the Constitution, which specifies how Congress can collect taxes and allocate spending. In this episode we discuss: Different ... Show More

Welcome to the latest episode of Stairway to English: Conversation Edition! This is a 2 part episode. Here, in part 1, Marisa and I talk about her life, her background with language learning, where her family is from, and growing up as an English language learner. Marisa speaks w ... Show More

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about some scenarios that people often ask about if they're incoming law students. We address concerns related to finding your motivation, fitting into law school, succeeding academically, and more.   In this ep ... Show More

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're excited to have John Passmore - a practicing attorney and one of our Law School Toolbox writers - with us to talk about some ways that law students can get involved in the legal profession. In this episode we discuss: A ... Show More

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about the Federal Rules of Evidence, and how to apply the rules of character evidence to both civil and criminal case hypos. In this episode we discuss: In what cases character evidence may be admissible in cour ... Show More

This week's episode of the @englishvocabularyhelp Podcast is all about Diet vocabulary. I will explain the most popular and trendy diets in the United States and I will tell you about my guilty pleasures when it comes to eating. I love to study health and wellness so this topic w ... Show More

Welcome to the Law School Toolbox podcast for our special series on starting off on the right foot in law school! Today, in the second episode of the series, we're discussing reading law school cases and preparing for class. In this episode we discuss: Why it's important to spend ... Show More

Let's look at some conjunctions (also known as connectives) to help improve your conversation and debating skills in English.Conjunctions are an effective way to make your sentences more complex and sound much more natural - rather than simply using a string of short, simple ... Show More