SATC offers a variety of courses designed to increase the skills and abilities of professionals. All courses are taught using the latest interactive techniques and are designed to provide practical knowledge and usable skills for participants.

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

Course Methodology: Each of the courses are taught using the most advanced adult teaching methodologies recognizing the need for interactive methods of teaching with high levels of student participation. Mini-lectures and power point presentations are supplemented with small group exercises, brainstorming, case studies, role-plays, and problem solving.  Printed course materials that can serve as a resource for the students during and following the training are provided to each student.

All courses are available in English or Polish. The length of each course is subject to negotiation and varies with each course.

Courses Available:

Legal Reasoning: This course is about developing the ability to “think like a lawyer.” The course will focus on developing the student’s critical thinking ability through discussions, exercises, and simulations designed to increase the students’ ability to spot issues in legally complex situations, and to develop solutions to legal problems. The course will focus on issue identification, case, statutory and factual analysis, the form and function of rules, analytical tests and practical problem solving.

Legal Writing: This course is designed to improve the legal writing ability of practicing lawyers. It focuses on the proper preparation of legal memoranda, written arguments such as those contained in legal briefs and other advocacy filings with the courts, as well as client correspondence and contracts. The course identifies and discusses some of the most common writing errors made by lawyers (for both Native and non-Native English speakers) and through interactive exercises gives the participants an opportunity to develop the ability to keep these errors out of their writing.  This course is very complimentary with the legal reasoning course and can be taught as an integrated supplement to that course.

Legal Advocacy: This course focuses on developing oral advocacy skills including oral advocacy in trial and appellate courts, developing evidence, questioning witnesses, developing legal issues and reacting to courtroom developments. Students will complete exercises based on real cases that would provide them the opportunity to make oral arguments and do direct and cross examination of witnesses. Focus will also be placed on developing the skills necessary to have a good communication relationship with their audience. These skills are transferable to any legal system.
Negotiation: This course is designed to develop the student’s ability to successfully engage in negotiations in business and legal environments. The course will focus on the six key skills in a negotiation: Preparation; Setting Limits and Goals; Good Listening Skills (including the art of reading body language); Clarity of Communication; Keeping Emotional Distance and Closing the Deal.  Students will work to develop their own negotiation style and learn how to make these skills work in their every day professional lives.  Topics such as cultural aspects of negotiation, telephone negotiation, and negotiation in difficult situations will also be covered.

Client Interviewing and Counseling: This course is designed to give lawyers the background and skills they need to effectively meet with and advise clients. The course focuses on client interviewing skills including methods of collection of client information and establishing appropriate client-lawyer relationships. Also included will be client-counseling training including how to deal with difficult clients and situations as well as providing advice to clients that is both helpful and understandable to the client and meet the firm’s expectations as well as all legal and ethical requirements.

Training of Trainers: This course is designed for individuals who will be training others. The course develops the distinctions between child based (pedagogy) and adult based education (andragogy). It trains the students to implement interactive teaching methods such as small group discussions, brainstorming, role-plays, case studies, panel discussions, and the Socratic dialog. Addition emphasis is placed on the use of questions and visual aids in training, training evaluation and course and curriculum development and planning.