Description

The only text that fully combines coverage of legal systems with academic and professional legal skills. Coupled with the focus on employability and commercial awareness, Legal Systems & Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for law students.

• Legal Systems & Skills speaks directly to students: it is accessible, with an engaging writing style and a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge practically
• Supports students to become more confident with new concepts: clear, no-nonsense explanation is supported by annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts and diagrams that provide a visual representation of concepts and processes
• Encourages students to think critically about the law: ‘essential debate’ boxes and ‘practical exercises’ throughout challenge students’ thinking about law and the legal system; great for exam and interview preparation
• Helps students understand how law operates in practice, and develops their professional skills and commercial awareness: the practical focus throughout is enhanced by features such as ‘what the professionals say’, which brings in voices from across the world of legal services and other professions
• Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support

New to this edition

• Legal skills: each skill is now explained in the context of its development and application, first during legal studies, and then in legal practice
• New skills of negotiation and mediation are included, with increased coverage of interviews and presentations
• Analysis and guidance on each of the skills proposed to be assessed in SQE2, including case and matter analysis, persuasive oral communication, and negotiation
• Downloadable flowcharts and diagrams for each of the key skills: – for academia, including how to write case summaries, answer problem questions, plan and write essays which succeed against assessment criteria, and communicate with confidence in class. – for practice, showing with consistency how to develop these academic skills into new practical skills such as taking effective notes, structure a successful interview and negotiation, present and conduct advocacy with influence.
• New contemporary case studies and further recommended reading to develop commercial awareness
• Consideration of the impact of technology and AI on business and legal services, and the increasing changes in the legal services environment
• Additional material on professional conduct and ethics
• Updated Brexit coverage