4th Edition

A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills

Edited By Fiona Boyle, Deveral Capps Copyright 2020
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

  Legal skills are an important and increasing part of undergraduate law degrees as well as postgraduate vocational law courses. This fully updated fourth edition continues to bring together the theory and practice of these skills in an accessible and practical context. The authors draw on their experience of teaching and of law in practice to develop the core skills taught on both... Read more

1:  Foreword by The Secret Barrister;  2: Chapter 1: Legal Writing: Basic Principles, Planning, Plain English and Presentation;  3: Chapter 2: Legal Writing: Applying Writing Skills – Letters, Memoranda, Briefs, Attendance Notes, Reports and Minutes;  4: Chapter 3: Legal Research;  5: Chapter 4: Practical Legal Research;  6: Chapter 5: Opinion Writing;  7: Chapter 6: Legal Drafting: Planning, Structure and Content of Formal Documents;  8: Chapter 7: Advocacy;  9: Chapter 8: Interviewing/Conferencing Skills;  10: Chapter 9: Negotiation;  11: Chapter 10: Mediation: The Process and Practice of Mediation as a Form of Dispute Resolution;  12: Chapter 11: Ethics;  13: Chapter 12: Legal Services Landscape;  14: Chapter 13: Careers, Employability and Commercial Awareness;  15: Index

Biography

Fiona Boyle is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cumbria.

Deveral Capps is Dean of Leeds Law School at Leeds Beckett University.