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Lawyers as Counselors, A Client-Centered Approach

4th Edition
David A. Binder | Paul B. Bergman | Paul R. Tremblay | Ian S. Weinstein
ISBN: 9781640203907
Subject: Interviewing And Counseling
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 389
Copyright: 2019 | Status: In Stock
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This is the 4th edition of the paradigm-shifting text that created the concept of client-centered lawyering. The new edition explains and illustrates fact-gathering and decision-making strategies for civil litigators, criminal defense lawyers and transactional lawyers in the contexts of individual clients, first time and repeat “players,” joint clients, organizational clients, and clients whose cultural backgrounds differ from those of their lawyers. No matter the context, the new edition continues its predecessors’ commitment to a legal culture in which caring lawyers use their knowledge, experience and judgment to empower clients to make satisfactory decisions.

Video recordings of simulated lawyer-client dialogues are now available to adopters of the coursebook. The materials that are available online include video recordings, transcripts of the recordings, and a Teacher’s Manual suggesting how instructors might use the recordings in class discussions or otherwise to help students develop interviewing and counseling skills.

The video recordings relate to the wide range of skills and legal practice areas that Lawyers As Counselors discusses. For example:

  • Shorter recordings focus on discrete lawyering skills, such as Active Listening and T-funnel questioning.
  • Longer recordings integrate lawyering skills into examples of interviewing and counseling sessions.
  • Some dialogues involve civil disputes, others involve criminal prosecutions, and still others involve transactional matters.

Contact your Account Manager if you are an adopter and would like an access code to review the videos. Access codes are also available for your students, so the videos can be assigned for your class.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Coursebook
Publication Date: 03/18/2019
Related Subject(s): Career Success

David A. Binder, University of California-L.A. School of Law

Paul B. Bergman, University of California-L.A. School of Law

Paul R. Tremblay, Boston College Law School

Ian S. Weinstein, Fordham University School of Law

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New topics in the 4th edition include:

  • Client-centered strategies for counseling discussions regarding making and responding to settlement offers in civil and criminal cases and in transactional matters.
  • Avoiding conflicts of interests with existing clients when interviewing potential new clients.
  • Strategies for talking to new clients about prior efforts to resolve disputes or reach agreement on transactional matters.
  • Integration of the impacts of electronic communications and use of social media into discussions of the interviewing and counseling process.

The new edition also:
  • Provides readers with a menu of strategies that they can adapt to individual cases by emphasizing core client-centered counseling strategies.
  • Eliminates discussions of general psychological principles that are unrelated to client interviewing and counseling.
  • Eliminates most footnotes, making the text more reader-friendly.
  • Is straightforward and concise, with the number of chapters reduced to 19 from 22.
  • Incorporates the latest versions of the rules of professional responsibility and emphasizes their impact on interviewing and counseling strategies.
  • Reflects the diversity among lawyers and clients by focusing on important research on the impact of inter-cultural differences on lawyer-client communications.

Learn more about this series.