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Practical Legal Skills: Developing your Clinical Technique, 4th Edition

Practical Legal Skills: Developing your Clinical Technique, 4th Edition

Author: Ross Hyams; Susan Campbell; Adrian Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195529999
Published In: March 2014
Format: Paperback , 224 pages
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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The ideal handbook to help develop skills in interviewing, advising, advocacy, writing and drafting, and negotiation and mediation.
Exercises throughout the text help readers practice a full range of legal skills.
New content on ethics and professional responsibilities.

Practical Legal Skills is an established and respected handbook for those engaged in legal training at all levels. Written by an expert author team, this book covers the practical skills of lawyering, including interviewing, advising, advocacy, writing and drafting, and negotiation and mediation. The fourth edition also explores the ethical risks faced by clinical students and practitioners, and discusses the ethics, values and professional responsibilities surrounding the decisions lawyers make. Exercises throughout allow readers to practise the full range of skills required in every-day legal work.

Clear and concise, Practical Legal Skills is the essential guide for preparing skilled and ethical lawyers in a rapidly changing environment of practice.

New to this edition

New chapter 'Keeping Out of Trouble' explores ethical methods and promotes ethical awareness, piloting a technique to assist law students and lawyers to identify the alternative ethical approach to problem solving

Expanded coverage of alternative dispute resolution, therapeutic jurisprudence, multidisciplinary and collaborative legal practice.

Readership: Law students and new lawyers working in a legal clinic, whether as part of a formal subject in a law degree, work experience, or paid work.

List of Exercises
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Interviewing: Listening and Questioning
3 Interviewing: Advising
4 Keeping out of Trouble
5 Writing and Drafting
6 Negotiation and Mediation
7 Advocacy

Ross Hyams is a practising solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Law and Convenor of the Legal Practice Program at Monash University. The late Susan Campbell AM was a practicing solicitor, legal education consultant and former Professorial Fellow in Legal Practice at Monash University. Adrian Evans is a practising solicitor and Professor in Law at Monash University.