A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills
Fiona Boyle, Deveral Capps, Fiona Boyle, Deveral Capps
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A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills
Fiona Boyle, Deveral Capps, Fiona Boyle, Deveral Capps
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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 undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Skills covered include:
• written communication;
• mediation;
• opinion writing;
• drafting;
• advocacy;
• interviewing;
• negotiation;
• legal research.
The text also considers the professional and ethical context of legal practice, provides an insight into the legal services landscape as well as offering valuable careers advice.
Diagrams and flow charts help to explain and develop each skill and each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading.
A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills is essential reading for all undergraduate and vocational law students seeking to develop the necessary skills to work successfully with law in the twenty-first century.
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Chapter 1
Legal writing: basic principles, planning, plain English and presentation
Introduction
Legal writing and lawyers
Writing in practice and in law school
Writing style in the firm is dictated by custom and practice, tempered by partners’ individual styles and preferences. Trainees also receive an extensive note on drafting, but this covers mainly agreements.Typically, property and litigation lawyers write letters in the first person plural, often adopting a more formal tone than is necessary. We would advise that this is not a style which generally meets the approval of the writer of this letter.Typically, a corporate lawyer adopts a less formal style with assistants, just as partners, writing letters in their own name and in the first person singular. I approve of this, as I am sure you do too, Margot.1
Why are these chapters about legal writing rather than drafting?
Legal writing is essentially a process of solving problems and proposing options. Legal drafting is a process of defining relationships and setting out procedures. Much of legal drafting is about adapting precedents: more of legal writing is about original composition.2
Writing and communication
What is the function of lawyers?
Why communicate by writing?
Does all communication have the same purpose?
- to advise;
- to record;
- to inform;
- to confront;
- to reply;
- to confirm;
- to justify;
- to reassure.