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Bar Manual: Conference Skills, 21st Edition

Bar Manual: Conference Skills, 21st Edition

Author: The City Law School
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192857903
Published In: August 2022
Format: Paperback , 248 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Contents
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- 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, written by Lord Justice Brooke, on the importance of avoiding racial and cultural intolerance and ignorance, providing invaluable advice to help trainee barristers improve their cross-cultural communication skills.
Covering all aspects of the client interview, Conference Skills is designed to help trainee barristers develop the key written, interpersonal, and case-work skills required to conduct successful client conferences. Special attention is devoted to skills of questioning, listening, and advising, to ensure the trainee barrister is well equipped to maximise a client conference in terms of gathering information and giving advice.

Featuring numerous how-to-do-it guides, worked examples, and realistic case documentation, the manual offers practical step-by-step guidance so that the trainee barrister can approach any client conference with confidence.

Readership: Students studying on the Bar Professional Training Course.
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
Further reading
This manual is edited by Marcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School

Contributors:
Authors
Rosemary Samwell-Smith, Barrister, former Principal Lecturer, The City Law School
Marcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School

Contributors
Susan Blake, Barrister, Associate Dean, The City Law School
Lord Justice Brooke, Lord Justice of Appeal
Ann Halpern, Barrister, former Reader, ICSL
Susannah Leahy, Barrister, former Senior Lecturer, ICSL
Debbie Lithman, Barrister, former Principal Lecturer, ICSL
Bartholomew O'Toole, Barrister, Middle Temple
Margot Taylor, Solicitor, Former Principal Lecturer, The City Law School
Carl Teper, Barrister, Middle Temple

Editor
Marcus Soanes, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School