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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1:Introduction and overview2: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
AUTHOR INFORMATION
The City Law School
This manual is edited by Marcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School
Contributors:
AuthorsRosemary Samwell-Smith, Barrister, former Principal Lecturer, The City Law SchoolMarcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law SchoolContributorsSusan Blake, Barrister, Professor of Law, The City Law SchoolLord Justice Brooke CMG, Lord Justice of AppealAnn Halpern, Barrister, former Reader, ICSLSusannah Leahy, Barrister, former Senior Lecturer, ICSLDebbie Lithman, Barrister, former Principal Lecturer, ICSLBartholomew O'Toole, Barrister, Middle TempleMargot Taylor, Solicitor, former Principal Lecturer, The City Law SchoolCarl Teper, Barrister, Middle TempleEditorMarcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law SchoolSeries EditorJulie Browne, Associate Professor of Law, The City Law School