Full 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 maximise 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 ; Further reading
