Conference skills

Conference skills

Covering all aspects of a client interview in both civil and criminal proceedings, Conference Skills equips trainee barristers with the key case-work, written, and interpersonal skills required to conduct successful client conferences, and is fully supported by how-to-do-it guides, worked examples,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blake, Susan H. [ (Susan Heather)] , 1953- (Author), Samwell-Smith, Rosemary (Author), Soanes, Marcus (Author)
Corporate Author: City Law School (London, England)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press , c2012
Series:Blackstone bar manual
Subjects:
Interviewing in law practice > England
Interviewing in law practice > Great Britain > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Interviewing in law practice > Wales
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and overview
  • 2. General principles
  • 3. The client
  • 4. Meeting the client - conducting the conference
  • 5. Case preparation
  • 6. Questioning techniques
  • 7. Advice
  • 8. Concluding the conference
  • 9. Specific ethical problems
  • 10. Specific client needs
  • 11. Cross-cultural communication
  • 12. How to judge an effective conference
  • 13. Practitioners' perspective
  • 14. Sample exercise

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