Practical Guide To Lawyering Skills

The book looks at how skills are taught and assessed both on undergraduate and vocational courses, and helps students to see skills as an integral element of law in both its academic and practical context. A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills provides a key introduction to the fundamental skills of writing and drafting, interviewing and advising, research and Opinion writing, and advocacy, while also introducing students to the key skills needed by modern lawyers, such as Information Technology.

Written to provide students with guidance and support in developing their lawyering skills across both undergraduate and vocational courses, the book draws on the authors' long experience as both academics and practitioners, both as solicitors and barristers. Philip Plowden is Director of Professional Studies at the University of Northumbria, and a practising solicitor. Fiona Boyle is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria and a solicitor. Deveral Capps is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria and a barrister. Clare Sandford is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria and a solicitor. All the authors teach both on the vocational law courses and on the undergraduate Exempting Degree with its integrated approach to the teaching of legal skills across the undergraduate curriculum.

A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills is the essential guide to legal skills for all law students as they develop the skills that they need to work with law in its 21st century context.