Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process

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Cambridge University Press, 2005 - Law - 443 pages
Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process bridges the gap between academic and practical law for students undertaking skills-based and clinical legal education courses at university. It develops oral and written communication, group working, problem solving and conflict resolution skills in a range of legal contexts: client interviewing, drafting, managing cases, legal negotiation and advocacy. The book is designed specifically to help students to practise and develop skills that will be essential in a range of occupations; develop a deeper understanding of the English legal process and the lawyer s role in that process; enhance their understanding of the relationship between legal skills and ethics; and understand how they learn and how they can make their learning more effective. This book provides a stimulating, accessible and challenging approach to understanding the problems and uncertainties of practising law that goes beyond the standard approaches to lawyers skills.

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Contents

Learning to live in the swamp
34
lawyers as communicators
54
group learning and group skills
81
1 Who am
84
3 Broken squares
90
How groups grow
96
Feedback
103
Assumptions about the relationship
111
making sense of writing
205
drafting legal documents
256
negotiation
302
6 Have your cake and eat it
327
8 How low can you go?
333
10 Staying cool calm and collected
340
Negotiation and mediation advocacy
346
the deepest swamp?
397

establishing a relationship in the interview
117
Parting and beginning the continuing relationship
139
ethics and values in legal work
152

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