This is a clear and concise guide to key practical legal skills: interviewing, advising, negotiating, letter writing and advocacy. This revised and updated edition of Practical Legal Skills provides more detailed coverage of advocacy and negotiation skills and has a strong commercial emphasis with the addition of a number of commercially focused exercises and examples. The expanded content maintains all the features of the original edition and meets the practice needs of lawyers in large commercial firms. The broad ethical issues arising from commercial practice are described and discussed.
'Legal Skills' encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills vital to a law degree in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for the first year law student and a valuable resource for those studying law at any level.
The essential handbook for law clinics.Practical Legal Skills is an established and respected handbook for all those engaged in legal education.
Offering invaluable guidance on the key skills required on the LPC, Lawyers' Skills also features a number of tasks, examples and reflective exercises specifically designed to support students in developing, practising and refining the ...
Packed full of practical examples and diagrams across the range of legal skills from language and research skills to mooting and negotiation, this edition will be invaluable to law students seeking to acquire a deeper understanding of how ...
A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills is essential reading for all undergraduate and vocational law students seeking to develop the necessary skills to work successfully with law in the twenty-first century.
Whether you are in your first year or your last, this book will ensure you make the most of your time at university, developing skills inside and outside the lecture theatre, so that you are in the best possible position to pursue your ...
Practical Legal Skills: Employment
With this book, they have produced a compendium of useful information and valuable advice that will be real assistance to law students at all stages of the degree programme.
In this chapter of the book, we consider the skill of advocacy as an integral element of learning about law. We look briefly at the relationship between advocacy and its near cousin, mooting, and between advocacy and its more ...
The sooner you get a handle on the basics, the sooner you can start putting them into practice. And not just in a legal context; the tools of a successful lawyer are transferrable across the working world. Whatever turns life takes, ...