About us

Grammatika International is a legal skills training and consulting company that designs, reviews, and teaches legal writing and legal skills courses for individual lawyers and law students, firms, and institutions. Grammatika is led by experienced lawyer-mediator-educator Rebecca Lockwood.

 
 

Rebecca founded Grammatika International in 2012 with the goal of helping lawyers and law students advance their careers through legal skill development, legal writing in particular. She is the lead developer and instructor of all curricula, applying her wide-ranging and international experience in law, languages, and skills-based education to the Grammatika classroom. She has lived and worked in five jurisdictions throughout her career.

Rebecca has been a licensed barrister and solicitor with the Law Society of Ontario for the last decade, being called to the bar in 2015 after graduating from the prestigious Juris Doctor program at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. After completing her articles under Barbara Jackman, she opened her own immigration and refugee law practice in association Jackman & Associates. She ran a hybrid virtual practice between Canada, India, and the UK for a number of years. She is now based in Perth, Australia where she is an accredited Mediator under the Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Standards. She now splits her working hours between mediation and education.

Rebecca has worked in education for 17 years. She began teaching languages in Spain and, since the launch of Grammatika, has focused on legal education in practical, skills-based learning for lawyers and legal professionals. From 2017 to 2020, Rebecca was a Senior Lecturer and Programme Manager at the University of Law in Manchester where she taught Legal Skills, Ethics, Immigration & Refugee Law, and Public Law. In Spain, she held various positions teaching professional English with government, language academies, private companies, and her own tutoring business. 

Rebecca is a published writer She was a monthly columnist for Canadian Lawyer Magazine 4Students and a regular columnist at The Lawyer's Daily writing on topics from immigration law to legal education.

Rebecca is fluent in English and Spanish and has working knowledge of French and Italian. She is currently studying Portuguese.

 
 

 

 

Our mission is to create quality professional development programs for lawyers and law students that can be applied directly to the practice and study of law in an inclusive learning environment.

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“The Grammatika classroom is inclusive, open, and relevant.”


— Rebecca, Founder of Grammatika International

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