The course will focus on the legal principles and skills involved in interviewing clients and witnesses and counseling clients in the course of litigation, dispute resolution, and decision making. Establishing an effective lawyer-client relationship requires that you gather information relevant to decisions to be made by your client, analyze the decision to be made, advise your client about the decision, and implement the decision. Additional topics include addressing cultural differences and interviewing and counseling clients with mental and physical disabilities, children, criminal defendants, and organizational clients. Students will participate in simulations of interviewing and counseling and will discuss the related ethical and professionalism concerns underlying the lawyer-client relationship. (3 Credits)

Semester

Spring 2019

Instructor(s)

Stacy Seicshnaydre

Academic Area(s)

Litigation & Procedure

Experiential Courses

—Simulations