Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

This book presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism.

Randall Kiser (Author)

9781108416443, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 August 2017

326 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.58 kg

'This is a great book for lawyers. It explains skills that help lawyers do a better job for their clients. Some of these skills are patience, trust, and optimism. People can develop these skills and make them stronger. For example, the book lists seven ideas for lawyers to help them be more creative … It should be mandatory reading for every lawyer, law student, law professor, and CLE provider.' Lainey Feingold, Disability Rights Lawyer

In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and fulfillment, organizational respect and accomplishment, client satisfaction and appreciation, and professional improvement and distinction. It identifies the most important soft skills for attorneys, describes and applies hundreds of studies regarding psychology, law, and soft skills, and provides concrete steps and methods to improve soft skills. The book should be read by law students, attorneys, and anyone else interested in how lawyers should practice law.

1. Introduction
2. Essential soft skills
3. Self-awareness
4. Self-development
5. Social proficiency
6. Wisdom
7. Leadership
8. Professionalism
9. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Legal skills & practice [LAS]