A Practical Approach to Effective Litigation - Softcover

Blake, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841740101 ISBN 13: 9781841740102

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2005

Synopsis

This book sets out and analyses the key skills that a lawyer needs to handle a case effectively. Written in a practical and readable style, A Practical Approach to Effective Litigation addresses the skills required to deal with clients, write legal documents, and present a case in court. The text demonstrates how to analyse a case, how to use law effectively, and how to develop persuasive arguments. Based on the popular A Practical Approach to Legal Advice and Drafting, this sixth edition has been radically rewritten to take into account the many changes to the way barristers and solicitors work. Lawyers now operate in an increasingly complex environment, faced with challenges in funding litigation and the growing international dimension in litigation. The book addresses how legal professional skills can be developed and used effectively within this rapidly changing context. A Practical Approach to Effective Litigation fuses professional skills and techniques with knowledge of substantive law to show how a sound knowledge of legal principle can be used to get results for a real client in a real case. Now expanded to include advice on developing your practice, it will be essential for anyone starting work in legal practice, or training to be a barrister or solicitor.

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Review

Review from previous edition 'A Practical Approach to Effective Litigation is an excellent text for any lawyer, particularly a young lawyer who has just completed their training. The text provides a number of excellent tips to guide the reader through the effective management of litigation...' this is a well-written and practical guide to litigation and certainly a text that I will keep close to my desk. It provides a number of precedents which will be extremely useful to any practitioner and it provides excellent value for money. Any commercial or civil litigator should seriously consider purchasing this text.' (Russell Kelsall, The Student Law Journal)

About the Author

Susan Blake, Director of Studies and Associate Dean - Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School) Susan Blake spent several years in practice at the Bar dealing with a variety of types of case in all levels of courts. She was formerly Course Director of the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, having played a major part in devising and implementing the BVC. She became Director of Studies in 1998, and is now also Programme Director for the LLM in Legal Professional Skills that was introduced in 2006. Since the last edition she has become Programme Director of the LLM in Professional Legal Skills, a route by which Bar Vocational Course students can convert their qualification to a full Master's degree. As the students complete dissertations on practice related topics this fits well with her authorship of this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841740101
• ISBN 13: 9781841740102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 648