Meet Our Team
Cambridge Law Studio is proud of our international team of experts.
Our Team
Catherine Mason
Catherine is the founder of Cambridge Law Studio.
Between 1999-2024 she has trained corporate lawyers from all over the world, as well as setting up specialist English courses for law students to prepare them for work. She holds a BA Hons in English, and the Postgraduate Diploma in Law and as well as being a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language.
In 2000 she was one of the founders of the Test of Legal English Skills (TOLES), which have been adopted by numerous organizations around the world, and are appreciated by the employers of lawyers because of the strong focus on testing a candidate’s understanding of commercial legal vocabulary as well as grammatical accuracy and appropriate use of professional register.
She is the author of several legal English textbooks including ‘The Lawyer’s English Language Coursebook’ and ‘Advanced Legal English.’ She also authored the online ‘Illuminate Program’ in legal English, and in 2023, authored her first online guide to drafting commercial contracts in English.
Phillip Armstrong
Phil is the Director of Studies for our in-person courses in Cambridge.
He has more than 20 years’ experience in education and has contributed as a writer and editor of courses for organizations such as Pearson, Kaplan, and the British Council. He holds a Masters in English Literature.
In his position of directing our in-person courses in Cambridge, he manages immersive courses covering a wide range of legal and language topics. He acted as an expert instructional designer in the development of our online law and legal English modules, which are included as part of our Cambridge courses. His classes also include key areas of legal English accuracy, including use of collocation and prepositions in legal writing, English legal vocabulary, the English of commercial negotiation, presentation skills, and more.
He has developed his own uniquely helpful and exclusive classroom materials based on his years of working closely with lawyers and law students from all over the world.
Rosalyn Sheehy
Rosalyn is a solicitor and teacher.
She occasionally teaches on our in-person courses in Cambridge, as well as contributing to our planned online modules in substantive law.
She is a graduate of the University of Law and holds the Bachelor of Laws (LLB.) and is a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language. She ran her own extremely successful ‘English for Lawyers’ courses in Dublin before joining Cambridge Law Studio in 2022.
As part of her role as a teacher on the Legal Force Program in Oman, she gained valuable experience in preparing students for the TOLES Foundation exam, as well as teaching substantive law.
She has a wealth of experience in assisting international lawyers to understand the difference between the way the law works in their own system as compared to the common law systems of the UK and the USA.
She is currently developing an online course in substantive contract law to assist students studying on the SQE and LLB courses.
Melissa Gray
Melissa is Head of Administrative Operations.
She joined Cambridge Law Studio/TOLES in 2008, and since then has become responsible for every aspect of the smooth running of our daily communications with our international colleagues and clients.
She is a leading ‘TOLES Teach and Test Consultant’ for Cambridge Law Studio, and guides teachers of English as a Foreign Language into developing their own successful legal English courses, wherever they are in the world.
She has a strong background in IT, and was responsible for introducing the option of online courses and online TOLES exams between 2019-2024, and in doing so introduced quality legal English training to thousands more lawyers and law students worldwide.
She is our main liaison with our UK accreditation body, the ASIC, and makes sure that we continue to exceed expectations in every area of operations.
Rachel Renshaw
Rachel is Senior Administrative Assistant.
Rachel joined Cambridge Law Studio/TOLES in 2024, and we admired her academic qualifications and inter-personal skills so much that we selected her from over 400 candidates.
As well as being a great contact in the UK for Cambridge Law Studio students who are planning to attend our Cambridge courses, she is also currently learning how things work with TOLES exam candidates and TOLES centres so that she can help to provide the best service possible to our clients worldwide.
She has studied to post-graduate level, and has previously worked in the UK as a teaching assistant. Our team could see immediately that she has a knowledge of the process of effective learning, and empathetic approach to students and teachers alike.
She graduated in 2021 with a Master’s degree in English Literature, and has continued her studies in this field, working towards a PhD.
As well as dealing with daily admin tasks, as a recent graduates and member of Generation Z, Rachel is helping to guide our team on better communication with the law students and lawyers who are qualifying now, and, as we know, have different and better expectations of us than any generation before them.
Aleksandra Łuczak
Aleksandra is our official partner in Poland.
We are honoured that she has been our trusted partner in the region for more than 20 years, and her expertise has been extremely valuable to Cambridge Law Studio as we have developed new study and testing materials for lawyers.
She holds a Master’s degree as well as PhD, and graduated from the Institute of English Studies at Warsaw University in 1994 where she also defended her doctoral thesis on The Construction and Evaluation of English for Specific Purposes Syllabus in 2006.
Since 1997 she has been working as an ESP teacher at Kozminski University in Warsaw where she is the Director of the Centre for Foreign Languages and runs legal English courses preparing students for the TOLES examinations.
She cooperates with language schools and training institutions providing them with teacher training and ELT consultancy. Her interests include the use of the latest technologies
We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with Aleksandra for many years to come.
Karolina Rankovic
Karolina is our official partner in the Balkan region.
Karolina is an Attorney-at-Law and an experienced trainer.
She has spent five years operating her own legal practice in Serbia, representing international clients from the UK and the USA, and collaborating with European institutions. She has an in-depth knowledge of the practices of the European Court of Human Rights.
She has over 13 years’ experience in international public and private law, and as a trainer, combines non-formal education methods and COMPAS with creative tools, adjusting them accordingly for specific students. She leads soft skills projects and non-formal education training, supported by the European Commission. She also implements international projects, and is an active member of English Language Teachers’ Association.
We are delighted to welcome Karolina to our team, and have several exciting projects planned with her.
Caroline Barton
Caroline is our Professional Tour Guide for days in the law courts/legal London.
She joined us in 2017 as a dedicated student guide for our group visits to the London law courts and has a great deal of expertise on how things work for visitors at the London Central Criminal Court, the UK Supreme Court, and the area known as ‘Legal London.’
When our students have their all-important visit to the famous ‘Old Bailey’, as the London Central Criminal Court is known, Caroline is the official support for the group. She will accompany groups from Cambridge to London, help them through security at the court, and find the most interesting case possible for our visiting lawyers.
Before joining us, Caroline was a tour guide for a Cambridge excursion company, accompanying groups of international students to cities around the UK, France and the Netherlands.
Among Caroline’s many talents, she has previously run a hotel in France, completed a carpentry and joinery course and is a qualified personal trainer!
Maral Erol
Maral is our official partner in Turkey.
Maral is a multi-lingual lawyer who is a graduate of the University of Baskent, Turkey. She has been successfully practising law since 2012. She works at an international level and speaks several languages, having been a sworn Turkish-Russian translator since 2022.
She is registered to the Ankara Bar Association, where she is an instructor in the subject of Artificial Intelligence and International Law at the Bar Association’s Law and Internship Academy (AVSA).
She is very active in the legal community in Ankara, and is proud to be a founding member of the ‘Space Law Commission’, and is also an expert in Customs Law and International CIS, EAC.
We were delighted to have Maral join our team as our representative in Turkey in 2024.
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