Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients Through Bad News and Other Legal Realities

by Marjorie Corman Aaron

Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice. Clients question and often resist the complexities and uncertainties inherent in law and legal process. Honest advice from the lawyer can make a client doubt his or her allegiance and zeal. Client backlash may be directed at the lawyer who communicates bad news. Thus, the lawyer may feel torn between the obligation to clearly inform a client about weaknesses in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199891907
• ISBN13: 9780199891900
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"