Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process

Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process bridges the gap between academic and practical law for students undertaking skills-based and clinical legal education courses at university. It develops oral and written communication, group working, problem solving and conflict resolution skills in a range of legal contexts: client interviewing, drafting, managing cases, legal negotiation and advocacy. The book is designed specifically to help students to practise and develop skills that will be essential in a range of occupations; develop a deeper understanding of the English legal process and the lawyer's role in that process; enhance their understanding of the relationship between legal skills and ethics; and understand how they learn and how they can make their learning more effective. This book provides a stimulating, accessible and challenging approach to understanding the problems and uncertainties of practising law that goes beyond the standard approaches to lawyers' skills.

ISBN 0521619505   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521619509 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 680 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Law in Context Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780406044662 Publication date 29 Sep 2005   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress KD474 .M38 2005   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 340   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 466

1		Descent into the swamp		11
2		Learning to live in the swamp		34
3		Law talk and lay talk : lawyers as communicators		54
4		You'll never work alone : group learning and group skills		81
5		Interviewing : building the relationship and gaining participation		107
6		The 'good lawyer' : ethics and values in legal work		152
7		Clarifying language : making sense of writing		205
8		Manipulating language : drafting legal documents		256
9		Handling conflict : negotiation		302
10		Advocacy : case management and preparation		350
11		Into court : the deepest swamp?		397

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