Applied Legal Skills

Applied Legal Skills is part of CILEX’s exciting newExplorer series. After an introductory chapter, Part 1 of the book focuses onlegal study skills. Topics covered in this Part include academic study skills,legal research and legal writing skills, essay writing, answering problemquestions and multiple-choice questions. We are particularly excited by ourchapter on mooting and courtroom etiquette.Part 2 of the book deals with practical professional skills.Topics covered in this Part include employability in the legal professions,personal impact, presentation skills, teamwork and group projects, legalethics, commercial awareness and negotiation skills. Client relationships andcommunication with clients are also examined, together with workplacetechnology, accounting and networking.The final innovative chapter covers bilingual (English andWelsh) legal skills and employability opportunities.The textbook is supported by a wealth of podcasts andvideos, including contributions from practising solicitors and barristers andprofessional actors, as well as additional multiple-choice questions.This textbook will be particularly valuable for universitystudents studying Legal Skills in both England and Wales. It will also be avaluable resource for staff in legal teams who wish to develop theirunderpinning knowledge and practical professional legal skills further.

Stephen Clear FRSA, SFHEA, LLM (Res), LLB (Hons), PGCertHE,is a Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law and the Lead for Law atBangor University in North Wales. He started his career in the Clerk's Officeat a Chancery Lane (London) based Barristers' Chambers, before moving to HigherEducation teaching. He has led Legal Skills, Legal Research Methods, andMooting modules since 2011. His research concerning legal education won the2017 Association of Law Teachers' Stan Marsh prize, and he has been publishedby leading international journals (including in the Netherlands, France, Spain,and India). He is the author of leading reference works published by Sweet andMaxwell (Thomson Reuters)and is a Consultant Editor for Halsbury's Laws of England (Lexis Nexis).