INTERVIEWING & COUNSELING IN THE PROSPECTIVE CLIENT CONSULTATION

INTERVIEWING & COUNSELING IN THE PROSPECTIVE CLIENT CONSULTATION is an interactive textbook faculty can adopt and adapt for many different uses: as a primary text in an interviewing and counseling course, as a secondary text in a lawyering skills course; as a resource to support client interviewing exercises in doctrinal or broader lawyering skills classes; or as training materials for preparing students for clinics, externships, and competitions. The text frames the instruction in the context of the initial interview of a prospective client, although the counseling portion of the text goes beyond what many attorneys might actually address in an initial interview.  The knowledge and skills addressed in the text can apply equally to any conversation with a client or others involved in a matter. To some extent, the text could also be used in teaching about an examination of a witness in a deposition or hearing, though we have not drawn those parallels or distinctions. We have framed problems and discussion within a broad range of practice settings: civil and criminal; litigation, transaction, and compliance. Each chapter provides focused learning outcomes, instruction, quizzes and practice problems, and prompts for reflective writing or discussion.  The supplementary teachers manual provides learning activities and simulation problems.