Bar Manual: Conference Skills 21st ed

Covering all aspects of a client interview in both civil and criminal proceedings, Conference Skills equips trainee barristers with the key case-work, written, and interpersonal skills required to conduct successful client conferences, and is fully supported by how-to-do-it guides, worked examples, and realistic case documentation.

• Conference Skills features how-to-do-it guides designed to identify the general principles and basic rules which are applicable to every client conference, providing the trainee barrister with a useful framework for good practice
• Worked examples and realistic case documentation provide valuable insight into the strategies and techniques used to prepare and conduct client conferences
• All aspects of the client conference are covered, from the receipt of the brief through to following-up the client's case after the conference
• Contains a unique chapter on the importance of avoiding racial and cultural intolerance and ignorance, providing invaluable advice to help trainee barristers improve their cross-cultural communication skills
• Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support

table of content

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:Practitioners' perspective

14:Sample exercise