Legal Opinion 2025

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13 - 14 February 2025

INDABA HOTEL, FOURWAYS, Sandton.
Virtual: MS Teams & ZOOM

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OVERVIEW

Writing Legal Advice, more loosely called Legal Opinion, will enable you to build on problem-solving skills and take them one step further, applying them in a way that will be useful to you in your job and to your Organisation.
The importance of legal advice/ writing whilst studying will have equipped you with the knowledge and skill to answer problem-type questions.
This is an important skill, because it trains you on how to abstract the relevant facts from the irrelevant, identify the legal issues, state the Law relevant to the issues, apply the Law to the facts and then conclude on the issues.
This will be so, irrespective of where you practice. The most important feature of a Legal Advice/Opinion which distinguishes it from other types of legal writing is that is must be presented in a specific format.
This Workshop seeks to empower Delegates with uniformity in style and to address Procedural and various other aspects regarding the Formulation of Legal Opinion Reports within the Public & Private Sectors

Legal Opinion Writing 2025 will address the following:

  • Analytical thinking and problem solving
  • Legal writing – writing technique, clarity and plain language, citation.
  • Legal research – research techniques, types of research resources, efficiency, and timesaving
  • Role of the Opinion Writer
  • Types of Opinion
  • Obtaining instructions and establishing the facts – fact analysis
  • Defining the legal questions / issues
  • Structure, style, and content of your report.

Benefits of Attending:

  • Improving written advice
  • Research Techniques
  • Enhancing Drafting Skills
  • The use of correct language when drafting written advice
  • Establishing Best Practice across the Legal Department

Who Must Attend:

  • Advocates
  • Attorneys
  • Heads of Legal Departments
  • Legal Advisors
  • In-House Legal Counsel
  • Para Legal’s
  • Company Secretaries
  • Legal Assistants
  • Business Development Directors

Facilitated By: Adv. Alexia Vosloo - De Witt, LLB, Audiometry (NQF 5)

Current Practicing Advocate of the High Court of South Africa since 2013, Adv. Alexia Vosloo - De Witt focuses on Commercial, Corporate, Contractual, & Human Rights matters, chairing enquiries, and administrative boards. Her expertise spans Labour Law, Criminal Law, Civil Law, Family and Divorce Law, Harassment and Protection Orders, Contract Law, and Commercial Law, as well as Air, Space, and Telecommunications Law.

Adv. Vosloo - De Witt acts as a training facilitator for several training companies. Courses she has presented include Employment Equity, Labour Law, chairing a Disciplinary Hearing, Nuts and Bolts of Labour Law (How to Present Your Case), Consumer Protection Act, and Sexual Harassment.

Her previous international clients include Projex CI Telecommunications Company Guinea, where she assisted with legal compliance in Labour Law and Telecommunications and Infrastructure. She has comprehensive training experience, involving the development and implementation of internationally benchmarked curricula, lecturing at the tertiary level, and corporate training as a facilitator.

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Day 1

07:00-07:30 Registration & Early Morning Tea & Coffee

08:30Welcome, Workshop commences.

Introduction To Legal Opinion Writing

  • Definition And Purpose of Legal Opinions
  • Types Of Opinion
  • Role Of the Opinion Writer

    • Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

  • Problem Solving Techniques
  • Logical Deduction
  • Reasoning By Analogy

10:00-10:30 Morning Teas, Coffee, & Refreshments

Legal Writing

  • Writing Techniques
  • Pursuit Of Clarity
  • Plain Language Principles

    • Role Of the Opinion Writer

  • Types Of Opinion
  • Layout And Structure Of Opinion
  • The Key Elements

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Networking

Legal Opinions

Types of Opinions

There are different types of Legal Opinions that are used when writing a Legal Opinion.

In this session, the different types of Legal Opinions will be analyzed as well as where the different Legal Opinion should be used and in what context.

Instructions & Fact Establishment

  • Taking Instructions and Asking the Right Questions
  • Collecting Relevant Information and Documents
  • Analysing The Facts
  • Download the bundle or index for printing

Defining The Legal Questions / Issues

  • Identifying The Legal Problem
  • Framing The Key Questions

15:0015:00 Afternoon Teas/Coffees & Refreshments /p>

Legal Research

  • Research Techniques
  • Efficiency And Timesaving
  • Research Resources/Sources
  • Necessity to Do Research

16:00 End of Day 1

Day 2

07:30-08:30Registration, Tea & Coffee

Caselaw Research

Practical session (Computer/Tablet or Smartphone with internet access needed)

  • Delegates will get Subject references and need to find Applicable Acts, Legislation and Caselaw on such.

Identifying And Analyzing the Relevant Law

  • Identifying And Analysing the Relevant Law
  • Applying The Law to The Facts
  • Critical Analysis and Discussion

Formulating the Legal Conclusion

  • Key Facts and Law
  • Answering The Questions

Composing The Opinion

  • Opinion structure and outline
  • Use and importance of headings!
  • Identifying the legal questions / issues
  • Reviewing the relevant facts
  • Discussing the relevant law and its application to the facts
  • Drafting the conclusion

Reviewing And Settling the Opinion

  • Taking A Bird’s Eye View
  • Attention To Detail and Language Use
  • Reviewing The Advice

12:30 - 13:00 Lunch & Networking

Practical Legal Opinion Writing

Session

Extended Session

This session will entail the actual Writing of a Legal Opinion by Delegates/Attendees

  • Key tips and trouble shooting
  • Practical opinion writing exercises.

15:00 Questions & Certificate Handout & End of Workshop

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