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.

Caroline Maughan (Author), Julian Webb (Author)

9780521619509, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 September 2005

466 pages, 17 b/w illus. 2 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.744 kg

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.

Preface
Table of cases and legislation
Introduction
1. Descent into the swamp
2. Learning to live in the swamp
3. Law talk and lay talk: lawyers as communicators
4. You'll never work alone: group learning and group skills
5. Interviewing: building the relationship and gaining participation
6. The 'Good Lawyer': ethics and values in legal work
7. Clarifying language: making sense of writing
8. Manipulating language: drafting legal documents
9. Handling conflict: negotiation
10. Advocacy: case management and preparation
11. Into court: the deepest swamp?
Further reading.

Subject Areas: Legal skills & practice [LAS]