About the Book
Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis
Fourth Edition
Stefan H. Krieger
Hofstra University
Richard K. Neumann, Jr.
Hofstra University
2011. 460 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-9996-3. with Teacher's Manual.
About the Book
Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis, Fourth Edition is a readable and concise introduction to the essential skills of interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis.
Features:
- Experienced authors, who draw upon many years of teaching and writing about lawyering skills
- Concise, straightforward, practical explanations provide a less theoretical focus than other ICN texts
- Complete coverage of the essential skills: problem solving, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis
- Exceptional coverage of fact analysis and the persuasive value of facts
- Use of charts to illustrate how to organize facts/fact patterns
- The only ICN text covering fact analysis
- Plenty of examples promote interest, accessibility, and place topics in context
- Ethical concerns are discussed throughout the book, where appropriate
- Accompanied by a Teacher’s Manual
New to the Fourth Edition:
- Incorporates the latest research on
- cognitive science research on fact analysis
- storytelling process
- negotiation theory
- Includes state-of-the-art techniques for fact investigation
- Updated Teacher’s Manual includes
- Design of effective experiential learning courses
- Section on outcome assessments
