The City Law School: Conference Skills, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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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.

Key Features:
· Conference Skills features how-to-do-it guides designed to identify the general principles and basic rules which are applicable to every client conference, providing the trainee barrister with a useful framework for good practice
· Worked examples and realistic case documentation provide valuable insight into the strategies and techniques used to prepare and conduct client conferences
· All aspects of the client conference are covered, from the receipt of the brief through to following-up the client's case after the conference
· Contains a unique chapter on the importance of avoiding racial and cultural intolerance and ignorance, providing invaluable advice to help trainee barristers improve their cross-cultural communication skills
· Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support