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Interviewing Skills for Legal Professionals, 3rd Edition
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Interviewing Skills for Legal Professionals, 3rd Edition

Douglas Cochran
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Interviewing Skills for Legal Professionals, 3rd Edition is specifically designed to teach legal professionals how to prepare for, structure, and conduct effective client interviews. The quality of client interviews is essential to ensure that counsel receive essential information in order to achieve better results for their clients. 

Suitable for a national audience, this essential resource examines topics such as, working with interpreters; managing biases during fact-finding; selecting questioning techniques; ethical or interpersonal challenges that may arise while interviewing; and trauma-informed interviewing. Sample scenarios, examples, and role plays provide a practical, applied guide on key aspects of the client-centred interview. By implementing the techniques addressed in this text, readers will have the skills to confidently tackle fact-finding through client-centred interviewing. 

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ISBN
978-1-77462-191-2
Page Count
284
Publisher
Emond Publishing
Publication Date
January 2022
Status
Available
Subjects
Legal Practice Skills and Management
Tags
Higher Education Paralegal Law Clerk and Legal Assistant

  • A new chapter by expert Jill Taylor devoted to trauma-informed interviewing with a clear explanation of the effects of trauma; a practical guide on how to conduct a trauma-informed interview; how to support trauma survivors to share their experience; and scenarios that demonstrate the approach in action.  

  • Expanded discussion on working with interpreters. 

  • ”Author Aside” feature boxes contextualize key concepts and offer decades’ worth of practical advice. 

  • Sample interviews, illustrating the application of interviewing techniques. 

  • New scenarios and examples to help readers recognize and overcome various challenges. 

  • Instructor package: PowerPoints, and Instructor’s Guide. 

  • Numerous checklists and references in the appendices. 

  • Additional end-of-chapter review questions, exercises, and new role plays. 

Chapter 1: What’s Behind Good Client Interviewing?
Chapter 2: Interview Preparation
Chapter 3: Interview Structure
Chapter 4: Environment of the Interview
Chapter 5: The Interview
Chapter 6: Questioning Techniques
Chapter 7: Interviewing in Special Circumstances
Chapter 8: Client Advice, Ethical Concerns, and Challenging Clients
Chapter 9: Trauma-Informed Interviewing Authored by Jill Taylor
Chapter 10: The Art of Criticism

Appendix A: Interview Stages and Tasks
Appendix B: Obstacles to Communication
Appendix C: Avoidance Responses
Appendix D: Interview Checklist
Appendix E: Inventory of Interviewing Inhibitors
Appendix F: Typical Question Starters
Appendix G: Critic’s Guide to Interview Feedback
Appendix H: Impact of Constructive Criticism

Chapter 1: What's Behind Good Client Interviewing?

  • Instructor's Guide

  • PowerPoint Presentations

For free instructor resources, please contact instructor support.

Pair this text with Emond’s handbook on Advocacy for Paralegals, 3rd Edition and receive 10% off the bundle. Please note that all bundle products are sold on a final sale basis. 

Pair this text with Emond’s handbook on Communication and Writing for Paralegals and receive 10% off the bundle. Please note that all bundle products are sold on a final sale basis. 

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