МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РФ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ БЮДЖЕТНОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ «ВОРОНЕЖСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ» LEGAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT Учебно-методическое пособие для вузов Составители: А. <...> Климова Воронеж Издательский дом ВГУ 2014 Утверждено научно-методическим советом факультета романо-германской филологии 25 февраля 2014 г., протокол № 2 Рецензент канд. филол. наук, доцент ВГУ С. <...> Трухина Учебно-методическое пособие подготовлено на кафедре английского языка гуманитарных факультетов факультета романо-германской филологии Воронежского государственного университета. <...> Пояснительная записка Данное учебно-методическое пособие “Legal Career Development” рекомендуется для студентов 1 курса магистратуры дневного отделения юридического факультета. <...> Пособие состоит из трех разделов (units), в центре каждого из которых – текст, в ходе работы с которым отрабатываются рецептивные и продуктивные виды речевой деятельности. <...> На каждый раздел рекомендуется отводить 2-4 аудиторных часа и 2 часа для самостоятельной работы, хотя в зависимости от уровня подготовленности студентов программа может меняться. 4 Данное пособие будет соответствовать принципам коммуникативной направленности, культурной и педагогической целесообразности, а также позволит студентам соответствовать уровню выпускных требований по дисциплине «Деловой иностранный язык в юриспруденции (английский)» с учетом специфики вуза и потребностей студентов. 5 UNIT 1 Legal Professions in Russia In this Unit you’re going to read the text about different types of legal profession in the Russian Federation. <...> Discuss the following questions with your partner: 1. <...> What legal profession would you like to choose after graduating from the University? <...> In the text you will find the following words and word combinations (1-12). <...> Match the words with their definitions (a-l). 1) license (n) a) the property of a person, company that has value and that may be sold to pay a debt; 2) legal adviser 3) depository (n) b) something that has a single, separate, and independent existence; c) serious and detailed study of a subject, that is <...>
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МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РФ
ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ
БЮДЖЕТНОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ
ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
«ВОРОНЕЖСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ
УНИВЕРСИТЕТ»
LEGAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Учебно-методическое пособие для вузов
Составители:
А.Б. Пешкова,
А.Ю. Климова
Воронеж
Издательский дом ВГУ
2014
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Содержание
1. Содержание……………………………………………………………………3
2. Пояснительная записка……………………………………………………….4
3. Unit 1 Legal professions in Russia .……………….…………………………6
4. Unit 2 Lawyer’s work ………………………………….…………………….14
5. Unit 3 Applying for a job ……………………………………………………23
6. Библиография………………………………………………………………..34
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UNIT 1
Legal Professions in Russia
In this Unit you’re going to read the text about different types of legal profession
in the Russian Federation.
Warming-up Activity
Task 1. Work in a small group. Discuss the following questions with your
partner:
1. How do lawyers apply the knowledge of law in their practice?
2. Where do lawyers work? What legal jobs do you know?
3. Is it important to specialize in any particular area? Why? (Give your reasons)
4. What legal profession would you like to choose after graduating from the University?
Task
2. In the text you will find the following words and word combinations
(1-12). Match the words with their definitions (a-l).
1) license (n)
a) the property of a person, company that has
value and that may be sold to pay a debt;
2) legal adviser
3) depository (n)
b) something that has a single, separate, and
independent existence;
c) serious and detailed study of a subject, that
is aimed at learning new facts, scientific
laws, testing ideas etc;
4) enterprise (n)
d) a legal inquiry to settle a lawsuit which
concerns money or property a person
receives after someone’s death;
5) investigator (n)
6) research work
e) an official paper, card etc showing that
permission has been given to do something;
f) to compose a document in which a person
declares what will happen to his money or
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property after his death;
7) to draft a will
8) inheritance case
9) asset (n)
10) to certify (a document)
11) entity (n)
12) to pop up
g) to sign a document in order to make it
legally valid;
h) to happen or appear suddenly or unexpectedly;
i)
a person whose job is to give legal advice
to people or organizations;
j) an organization, especially a business firm;
k) a person that keeps things safely stored;
l) a person who examines all the details of an
event or situation in order to find out what
happened and what is happening (as a part of
his job).
Task 3. Read the text. The following sentences (1-7) have been taken out of
the text. Fill in the gaps (A-G) with the appropriate sentence.
1) Also you have to present a substantial research work and pass a very difficult
qualification exam.
2) Most of them are practicing lawyers or judges, or for example, prosecutors.
3) In Russia there are forty institutions of higher education in law (either a law
school attached to a university or a separate entity called a "juridical institute").
4) There are about twenty thousand of them in Russia, and in view of the economic
reform this body is growing.
5) Every kind of business has a jurist position and if it’s a big corporation – even
a legal department.
6) They draft wills, act as their depository and conduct inheritance cases by dividing
the assets between heirs according to the will or law.
7) They are a part of the profession too, because they are required to have a high
legal University education.
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Legal Professions in Russia
Legal profession is one of the most prestigious and highly paid professions
in Russia. There is a high admission competition on Law Departments of the
Universities. But after graduation people usually have a lot of options where to
apply their knowledge.
There are the following job titles in the Russian Federation:
1/ Jurists. Everyone who has got a University Law Degree is a jurist. If
you are a jurist, you can work in any position where special license is not required
and everything that you have to have is a University Law degree (and of
course some legal practice is strongly recommended). For example, you can work
as a legal adviser for any public or private firm. A_____ Also, every Federal or
State Governmental Agency or Commission has a legal department. So, normally
University graduates have a lot of choices.
2. Lawyers in Russia work mostly within colleges of advocates – selfmanaged
organizations. To get the status of a lawyer one should have a 5-year
education at an accredited University and at least 2 years of legal experience (or
at least 6 month of practice in any division of the State Lawyer Chamber) and to
pass a qualification exam. Upon receiving the status, a lawyer can practice law
everywhere in Russia.
Many lawyers are employed by the law offices of enterprises, ministries
and agencies as an in-house counsel (juriconsult). These lawyers have all powers
of an attorney, but they represent their single and permanent "client" – their
respective organization. B_____
3. Judges. To be a judge you have to have a University education and a
particular number of years of legal experience. For example, for the Supreme
Court of the Russian Federation – 15 years, for the trial court – no less than 5
years. C_____ Almost all judges have life-term positions but only until they
reach 70 years old.
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