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 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
12: General principles3: The client4: Meeting the client - conducting the conference5: Case preparation6: Questioning techniques7: Advice8: Concluding the conference9: Specific ethical problems10: Specific client needs11: Cross-cultural communication12: How to judge an effective conference13: Practitioners' perspective14: Sample exercise
