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.
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
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