Advocacy & Alternative Dispute Resolution: Client Counseling

"Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell" provides essential insights into the techniques and principles of effective legal interviewing and client counseling. The book focuses on building strong relationships, understanding client needs, and ethical decision-making within the legal context.

"Addressing a Client's Litigation Issues" offers insights from leading lawyers on effectively educating clients about the legal process and managing their expectations throughout a case. The book emphasizes the importance of developing a strategic approach to litigation to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.

"Legal Counseling and Negotiating: A Practical Approach" offers a thorough exploration of the essential skills needed for effective legal counseling, interviewing, and negotiation. The book combines descriptive insights with practical strategies, addressing key processes such as mediation and plea-bargaining to equip legal professionals with the tools necessary for successful client interactions.

"The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling" emphasizes the importance of collaboration between lawyers and clients throughout the legal process. It explores effective communication strategies, decision-making frameworks, and the psychological dynamics that shape client-lawyer relationships, ultimately enhancing the quality of legal counseling.

"Lawyering: Practice and Planning" provides a comprehensive guide for legal professionals, emphasizing the importance of effective communication and strategic planning in their practice. It covers essential aspects of lawyering, including client interviewing, negotiation tactics, dispute resolution, and the discovery process, to equip lawyers with the skills necessary to advocate successfully for their clients.

"Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis" offers practical guidance for developing key competencies necessary in legal practice, focusing on how to effectively communicate and negotiate with clients and opposing parties. The book emphasizes the importance of interviewing and counseling skills, alongside strategies for persuasive analysis, to enhance the effectiveness of legal professionals in various scenarios.

"Fact Investigation: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Counseling, and Case Theory Development" offers lawyers essential strategies and techniques for effectively serving their clients through thorough client interviews, witness questioning, and comprehensive fact investigation. The book emphasizes practical approaches to understanding clients' needs and developing robust case theories to support their legitimate interests.

Illustrates interviewing and active listening techniques appropriate for lawyer-client negotiations or for similar agent-principal negotiations. Mnookin provides negotiation advice and commentary interspersed with two simulated lawyer-client interviews.

"Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy" offers a comprehensive guide for legal practitioners navigating the pretrial process. Featuring 78 role-playing assignments in both criminal and civil cases, the book is complemented by a CD and DVD that include practical videos on taking depositions and applying techniques in trial settings. The resource also showcases mediation strategies, a settlement documentary, and an insightful tour of a crime scene, enhanced by computer animations for a dynamic learning experience.