COMMON GROUND : Legal-Ease International Goals..... A STORY

Common Ground: Legal Ease International Goals Eric is an accomplished corporate lawyer for a multi-national company that is always looking for expansion opportunities. Therefore, he knows better than to be complacent. He needs to make sure that he is updated with the latest news about business and in addition, he needs to be on top of the game where legal English language is concerned. In order to be efficient, he knows that he needs to communicate well. Sadly, he admits to himself that he does not really get a lot of “genuine” interaction with other people. Mostly, his communications are purposeful. Although he attends Legal Ease International events to improve his legal English skills, it offers a lot more than the technicalities and training. One of the things he love most about these events is getting to know other people and through the other participants, getting to know more about the culture and the business atmosphere in the places where they are from. He loves that he gets to talk to real people with real stories. He adjusted his glasses and made sure that his tie is perfectly in place. The setting is quite familiar and memories of past events and people he met on those events. There was Miss Laine from Mexico who invested in an online venture but lost all of her money just because she just did not understand the terms that she signed clearly. Now, she wants to make sure that she fully understands everything that she should before she makes another investment. She also loves cat and owns a Persian that she named Venom. Another interesting person who stayed in touch even after the event was Liam, a real estate investor in Guatemala. He is the only one in their family who got into college and became successful in business. He participates in different trainings and seminars to make sure that he has the skills to stay on top and secure a good future for the rest of the family. Mr. De Niro was a retired teacher who wants to put his retirement money into good use. He decided to put up his own restaurant in Honduras. He went to Legal Ease International because he knows that his business and legal English skills will help him with marketing. Once they were asked to pair up for an icebreaker and that was when he met Elizabeth. Elizabeth was a law student from Chile. She is a government scholar and she wants to pay the government back by being a public attorney and do some pro bono work to help out her fellowmen. The participant that made the most impact in Eric’s life, specifically in his career, was Mr. DaRossi. He became a partner of Eric’s company in Italy and that partnership started when Eric met him at Legal Ease International a couple of years ago. Now, it is time to meet new people as one by one, those who were assigned to the same group as him sat down for the small group discussion. They are all excited for the course to begin of Legal-Ease International and wait for the present, Dena Falken, the teacher raved about Worldwide