Bar Manual: Conference Skills 23rd ed

Author: The City Law School
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198989578

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780198923572
Published In: July 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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 maximize 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.

Key Features:

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

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