Conference Skills

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.

Auteur
This manual is edited by Marcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School

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The only manuals supporting students on Bar courses, providing detailed coverage of the key laws, rules and procedures alongside practical exercises.

Contenu

• 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: Practitioner's perspective

• 14: Sample exercise