A practical guide to lawyering skills

✍ Scribed by Fiona Boyle

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lawyering skills are increasingly part of undergraduate law degrees as well essential elements in the postgraduate vocational law courses, the LPC and the BVC. This fully updated third edition continues to bring together the theory and practice of these skills in an accessible and practical context.The authors draw on their vast experience of law in practice to develop the core skills taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Skills covered include:written communicationmediationinformation technologyopinion writingdrafting<  Read more...

Abstract:

Lawyering skills are part of undergraduate law degrees as well essential elements in the postgraduate vocational law courses, the LPC and the BVC. This third edition brings together the theory and practice of these skills. It is aimed at undergraduate and vocational law students seeking to develop the skills to work successfully with law.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Legal writing : basic principles, planning, plain English and presentation --
2. Legal writing : applying writing skills : letters, memoranda, briefs, attendance notes, reports --
3. Legal research --
4. Practical legal research --
5. Opinion writing --
6. Legal drafting : planning, structure and content of formal documents --
7. Advocacy --
8. Interviewing/conferencing skills --
9. Negotiation --
10. Mediation : the process and practice of mediation as a form of dispute resolution --
11. Information technology.

✦ Subjects

Practice of law -- England.;Practice of law -- Wales.;Practice of law.;England.;Wales.