This book takes a collaborative approach to legal interviewing and counseling. It suggests that clients will be best served when lawyers and clients work together to resolve problems. Under a collaborative decision-making model, the client controls most decisions, but the lawyer structures the process and provides advice in a manner that is likely to yield wise decisions.
 The Counselor-at-Law explores the major approaches to legal interviewing and counseling and outlines the available research on the psychology and the sociology of clients and lawyers. This book explores communication and decision-making theory, memory and recall, power and submission, personality types, and ethics. From this base, the authors construct a model of interviewing and counseling based on the techniques that are effective in real-life encounters. They also include psychological type theory and explain how it can be used to improve a lawyer's communication, interviewing, and counseling skills.
 This innovative casebook provides students with a template for effective legal interviewing and counseling. The most effective legal counselors are the ones instilled with respect for the client, cognizant of building rapport, aware of the psychological dynamics of the lawyer-client relationship, and equipped with technical communication skills to gather information without sacrificing rapport.

The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling

Martha M. Peters

John M.A. DiPippa

Robert F. Cochran

Rules & Procedures

LexisNexis / Lexis Publishing

The Counselor-At-Law: a Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling (Teacher's Manual)

Robert F. Cochran, Jr.

Lexis Publishing

LexisNexis

Juris Types: Learning Law through Self-Understanding is a first-of-its-kind law school study guide. Written by law school professors and psychological type experts Don and Martha Peters, Juris Types goes beyond general study tips to help you find learning strategies ideally suited to your unique personality. The means to better self-understanding and study strategies is the well-established personality theory of psychological type, familiar to millions of people who have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument. Juris Types begins with a clear, straightforward explanation of the concepts of type, addressing the different ways we take in and process information, organize our time and attention, and make decisions. The bulk of the book is dedicated to applying knowledge of type to study routines and exam-taking strategies. Included is a CD-ROM of reproducible step-by-step exercises to help guide you through each chapter. You will discover your own methods to better organize your time, study effectively, and prepare for and perform successfully on tests. An indispensable tool for maximum law school success with a minimum of stress.

Juris Types: Learning Law Through Self-Understanding

Don C. Peters

Legal Education

Myers & Briggs Foundation

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