Maudric
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W5

Contracts, law and governance

Japanese for working with lawyers and legal teams: contracts and key clauses, negotiation and redlines, compliance, disputes, intellectual property and corporate governance. Language lessons, not legal advice.

For anyone whose work crosses the legal team's desk: business managers, in-house lawyers from abroad, company secretaries and anyone who has to read a Japanese contract. You'll learn to follow a contract article by article, discuss a mark-up, raise a compliance concern and sit through a board or AGM discussion without getting lost. Best after Everyday Japanese 5 or 6.

Free to use. If these lessons help you, you can support new lessons on Patreon.

This course opens on 5 July 2027.

  1. W501The legal team and lawyersFrom 5 July 2027The legal department, outside counsel, scriveners and patent attorneys, and asking for a legal check or an opinion.
  2. W502Reading a contractFrom 5 July 2027Parties A and B, articles and schedules, renewal, signing, seals, e-signatures and revenue stamps.
  3. W503Key clausesFrom 5 July 2027NDAs, damages and liability caps, termination, force majeure, governing law, jurisdiction and the anti-social forces clause.
  4. W504Negotiation and redlinesFrom 5 July 2027Mark-ups and tracked changes, holding firm, giving way, taking it back and agreeing the final version.
  5. W505Compliance and regulationFrom 5 July 2027Training, personal data, whistleblowing, bribery, competition law and investigations.
  6. W506Disputes and the courtsFrom 5 July 2027Certified letters, claims, lawsuits, hearings, settlement, mediation, judgments and appeals.
  7. W507Intellectual propertyFrom 5 July 2027Patents, trademarks, designs, copyright and trade secrets: filing, licensing and infringement.
  8. W508Corporate governanceFrom 5 July 2027The board, outside directors and statutory auditors, the AGM, minutes, the articles and registration.
  9. W509ReviewFrom 5 July 2027The whole course again: about 30 sentences for the walking drill.