General principles -- The client -- Meeting the client -- conducting the conference -- Case preparation -- Questioning techniques -- Advice -- Concluding the conference -- Specific ethical problems -- Specific client needs -- Cross-cultural communication -- How to judge an effective conference -- Practitioners' perspective -- Sample exercise.

Covering all aspects of the client interview, Conference Skills is designed to help trainee barristers develop the key written, interpersonal, and case-work skills required to conduct successful client conferences. Special attention is devoted to skills of questioning, listening, and advising, to ensure the trainee barrister is well equipped to maximize a client conference in terms of gathering information and giving advice. Featuring numerous how-to-do-it guides, worked examples, and realistic case documentation, the manual offers practical step-by-step guidance so that the trainee barrister can approach any client conference with confidence.