Legal Drafting and Global Compliance

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About

This is a practitioner-oriented course designed to equip law students, fresh graduates, apprentice advocates, paralegals and junior lawyers with the practical legal skills required to serve clients in modern commercial practice and on global freelancing platforms.

The course moves beyond abstract legal theory and focuses on how legal work is actually structured, drafted, reviewed, and delivered in professional engagements. Participants learn how to approach commercial documents not as generic templates, but as instruments that allocate risk, define obligations, protect commercial interests, and create enforceable outcomes.

Across the course, trainees will develop practical competence in commercial drafting, contract review, legal opinions, compliance documentation, corporate formation support, paralegal deliverables, and professional client communication. The course is particularly tailored for young Pakistani lawyers who wish to build independent, remote, and commercially viable legal service offerings for local and international clients.

The course covers commercial drafting foundations, transactional documents, website documents and its compliance documents, global corporate and compliance practice, paralegal and litigation support, and freelancing platform skills.

Meet The Trainer(s)

Barrister Hassan Nawaz Sheikh

Barrister Hassan Nawaz Sheikh  (Advocate | High Court of Pakistan)

Barrister Hassan Nawaz Sheikh is the Head of Chambers at Hassan Law Chambers, Lahore, and an Advocate of the High Court of Pakistan. He is a Member of the Lahore High Court Bar Association and the Punjab Bar and was called to the Bar by The Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 2009.

 

Barrister Sheikh has extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, construction disputes, banking matters, corporate advisory, regulatory work, and transactional legal practice. Since establishing Hassan Law Chambers in 2012, he has advised public authorities, financial institutions, developers, investors, corporate clients, and sectoral bodies on complex legal and commercial matters.

 

His arbitration and disputes practice includes major construction and infrastructure matters, including FIDIC-based disputes and high-value arbitral awards. He has also handled over 600 cases before High Courts, Commercial Courts, Civil Courts and other forums, including matters relating to construction, infrastructure, commercial, banking, regulatory and corporate disputes.

 

In addition to litigation and arbitration, Barrister Sheikh has advised national and multinational clients on commercial, regulatory, real estate, infrastructure, energy and financial matters, and has contributed to policy advisory assignments involving free trade, the European Green Deal, transit trade, and arbitration rules for ease of doing business.

 

He brings to this course a practical, chambers-based understanding of how legal work is performed, priced, reviewed, and delivered, making the course especially relevant for young lawyers who want to convert legal knowledge into professional, client-ready work.

  • Batch Duration: 12 Weeks
  • Videos Duration: 24 hours
  • Start Date: 03 Aug 2026
  • Fee: Free of Cost
  • Who can Join: Everyone
  • Enrolled Trainees: 3408
  • Video Medium: Urdu & English

What you will learn

    After completing this course, a trainee will be able to:

    • Understand the purpose, function, and commercial value of legal documents.
    • Draft, review, and improve standard commercial agreements, including NDAs, service agreements, contractor agreements, partnership agreements, and memoranda of understanding.
    • Identify and draft core contract provisions, including parties’ clauses, recitals, definitions, obligations, payment terms, confidentiality, intellectual property, termination, liability, governing law, dispute resolution, and boilerplate provisions.
    • Use professional contract review methods, including structured review notes, risk summaries, redlines, track changes, and client-facing advice.
    • Prepare legal opinions for banks, corporate boards, and commercial clients, including capacity, authority, enforceability, security, and compliance opinions.
    • Develop website documents and its compliance documents, including privacy policies, terms of service, cookie notices, e-commerce policies, HR policies, and plain-English compliance memos.
    • Understand global corporate support work, including US LLC and Delaware C-Corp formation, UK private limited company incorporation, registered agents, EIN, VAT/GST frameworks, and post-incorporation compliance calendars.
    • Prepare paralegal and litigation-support deliverables, including case chronologies, pleading summaries, discovery indexes, document summaries, and client intake questionnaires.
    • Use Artificial Intelligence tools responsibly for legal drafting, review, prompt engineering, clause comparison, and document improvement.
    • Build a professional freelancing presence on Upwork, Fiverr, and LinkedIn through proper profile positioning, proposal writing, service packaging, pricing, client communication, and ethical delivery.
    • Produce a portfolio of practical legal deliverables that can be used to demonstrate competence to clients, law firms, and freelancing platforms.

Conceived By

Ministry of IT and Telecom

Funded By

Ignite

Executed By

Virtual University Of Pakistan