Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide (Elgar Guides to Professional Skills for Lawyers) - Hardcover

Cowan, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1839106905 ISBN 13: 9781839106903

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839106905
• ISBN 13: 9781839106903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252