Effective Communication for Lawyers

A Practical Guide

David Cowan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2031-8 (ISBN)

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Effective Communication for Lawyers is an essential guide to communicating in the radically and rapidly changing environment of professional law today. The book offers a deep dive into understanding communication as behaviour, as well as practical tools and insights. It connects theory to practice in order to improve client communication, support the current transformation of legal work and prepare readers for future developments and disruptions in the legal profession.

Key Features:

Introduces ‘The Dialogue Box’ and explains how to use this foundational communication tool in everyday legal work

Provides a solid grounding in the theoretical context and expands the horizons of the relationship between law and communication

Offers the reader a clear understanding of why they are communicating and enables effective use of various channels, tools and skills of communication

This book will be crucial reading for all practising lawyers, as well as arbitrators, mediators and negotiators. It will also be helpful for law students looking to develop their communication skills ahead of going into practice.

David Cowan, Assistant Professor, School of Law and Criminology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland and Associate Lecturer in Faculté de droit, Université Catholique de Lyon, France

Contents: Preface 1. Dialogue and law – new horizons 2. Law as communication, communication as law PART I THE COMMUNICATING LAWYER 3. Emotional lawyering 4. Collaborative lawyering 5. Changing channel 6. Changing paradigms – confront or collaborate? PART II THE DIALOGUE BOX FOR LAWYERS 7. Introducing the Dialogue Box 8. The Intelligence Zon 9. The Emotion Zone 10. The Interpretation Zone 11. The Narrative Zone 12. Ready to dialogue? Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Guides to Professional Skills for Lawyers
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	1-0353-2031-2 / 1035320312
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2031-8 / 9781035320318
Zustand	Neuware