Description
Covering all aspects of the client interview, Conference Skills is designed to help trainee barristers develop the key written, interpersonal, and case-work skills required to conduct successful client conferences. Special attention is devoted to skills of questioning, listening, and advising, to ensure the trainee barrister is well equipped to maximize a client conference in terms of gathering information and giving advice.
Featuring numerous how-to-do-it guides, worked examples, and realistic case documentation, the manual offers practical step-by-step guidance so that the trainee barrister can approach any client conference with confidence.
- 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
