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Acting "A Very Moral Type Of God": Triage Among Poor Clients, Paul R. Tremblay
Acting "A Very Moral Type Of God": Triage Among Poor Clients, Paul R. Tremblay
Paul R. Tremblay
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Responses To The Conference, Impromptu Lawyering And De Facto Guardians, Paul R. Tremblay
Responses To The Conference, Impromptu Lawyering And De Facto Guardians, Paul R. Tremblay
Paul R. Tremblay
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"Pre-Negotiation" Counseling: An Alternative Model, Paul R. Tremblay
"Pre-Negotiation" Counseling: An Alternative Model, Paul R. Tremblay
Paul R. Tremblay
This Article describes an alternative model for the process of legal counseling, a model applicable to a very common counseling experience ignored by the conventional Interviewing and Counseling texts—the experience of obtaining negotiating and settlement authority from a client. Counseling is, of course, a basic lawyering skill taught in law school clinics and in simulation courses. It is one of the most critical elements of good lawyering, and it is a skill which can be taught, and taught through the use of models. Every lawyering skills book available includes instruction about effective counseling. But when one reviews the available models …
Interviewing And Counseling Across Cultures: Heuristics And Biases, Paul R. Tremblay
Interviewing And Counseling Across Cultures: Heuristics And Biases, Paul R. Tremblay
Paul R. Tremblay
Increasingly in recent years, critics and commentators have noted the importance of the role of culture within the lawyering process. Lawyers now understand better than they used to that culture matters in their day to day work with clients, and that not all cultures share the same habits, customs, values, traditions and preferences. This article explores how the reality of cultural diversity might affect some fundamental lawyering practices and models, and specifically the models for interviewing and counseling. In their work, lawyers must take cultural background into consideration expressly, but at the same time they must avoid harmful and unfair …