Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis

An abundance of solid features makes this text a dependable choice for your classroom: - an experienced author team draws upon many years of teaching and writing about lawyering skills - complete coverage of the essential skills -- problem solving, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis -- ensures a comprehensive approach - exceptional coverage of fact analysis (not found in other texts) and the persuasive value of facts - charts illustrate how to organize facts and fact patterns - plenty of examples promote interest, and accessibility, and place topics in context - ethical concerns are discussed throughout the book, where appropriate The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to provide students with the latest information: - introduces new topics to counseling and negotiation, including decision theory and financial analysis of proposed agreements - introduces new topics to negotiation, including creativity in generating options, drafting deals, and transactional bargaining - provides additional material on narrative theory and legal story-telling - includes a bound-in CD-ROM with a case file and planning exercises for counseling, fact analysis, and negotiation - offers a fully updated Teacher's Manual that includes new and revised exercises