Conference Skills - 22nd Edition

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.

List of 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: Practitioner's perspective


• 14: Sample exercise

About the author

This manual is edited by Marcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School

Product details

• Authors: The City Law School
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9780198923572
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892357-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Bar Manuals
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, Wales, LAW / General Practice, LAW / Legal Profession, Legal skills & practice, Legal skills and practice, Legal profession: general, Legal profession / practice of law: general, Wales / Cymru