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Legal Skills encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills essential to the law student in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for first year law students and is also a valuable resource for those studying law at any level. Clearly structured in three parts, the book covers the full range of legal skills you will need to succeed from the beginning of your law degree, through your exams and assessments and into your future career. The first part covers 'Sources of Law' and includes information on finding and using legislation, making sure you understand where the law comes from and how to use it. The second part covers 'Academic Legal Skills' and provides advice on general study and writing skills. This part also includes a section on referencing and avoiding plagiarism amongst a number of other chapters designed to help you through the different stages of your law degree. The third and final part is dedicated to 'Practical Legal Skills'; a section designed to help you to develop transferrable skills in areas such as presentations and negotiations that will be highly valued by future employers. The book contains many useful features designed to support a truly practical approach to legal skills. Self-test questions and diagrams are set in a user-friendly colour design. More extensive activities give you the opportunity to take a 'hands on' approach to tackling a variety of legal skills from using cases to negotiation. Each skill is firmly set in its wider academic and professional context to encourage an integrated approach to the learning of legal skills. Online Resource Centre Legal Skills is accompanied by an innovative online resource centre offering a range of resources to support teaching and learning. Video clips of good and bad 'real life' moots in action bring the subject to life for students. Practical exercises appear throughout the book so you can test yourself on your essay writing, problem solving, revision and exam skills. Examples of good and bad answers to these exercises appear on the online resource centre providing insight into the varying approaches that can be taken to the same question with commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of each answer. Lecturers can track student progress using an online bank of 200 multiple choice questions offering immediate answers and feedback that can be customised and loaded on to the university's VLE.
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Dr Emily Finch is a law lecturer at Brunel University with extensive experience in the teaching of legal skills. She won an award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Reading in 2003 and was also nominated in the 'Rising Star' category of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme of the Higher Education Academy. In 2003 she led a team to victory in the National Client Interviewing Competition of England and Wales who went on to represent England and Wales in the international
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I used the Law Express revision books by these authors before the exams last year and did better than I expected. Then I spotted this new one they've written - there is tons of useful stuff in here, not just on how to find the law (the guides to databases here are brilliant) and how to read it but most importantly how to use it in answering questions and how to write in a proper legal style. I've struggled with my writing and technique so far, but I can see where I've been going wrong - why my lecturers never told me any of this, I'll never know! I'm going to carry on reading it over the summer and I'm sure I'll do better next year. I'm not sure why they haven't made it look more like the others in their revision series, but if that's the only complaint I have, it must tell you how good the book is! Thank you!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This book was recommended as pre-course reading for the LLB. I'd already got the Glanville Williams one, which would have been fine if I was studying law in 1850, but this is SO much more useful in every respect. It's a manual of 'how to do everything' with plenty of substance and academic weight but written so that anyone can make sense of it.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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I love this book. I can't believe that I didn't have it before because it would have saved me so much grief. It has everything in it that my lecturers kept telling me that I ought to be doing but never seemed to think it was there job to tell me how I should be doing it. It is like referencing. I kept getting work back that said my referencing wasn't good enough but never once did anyone tell me how to make it better. It is the same with problem questions. Telling me that I didn't have the technique was never going to help me get it. But now this book tells me all the things that I need to know and I can see how much it is going to help me. It is like the sections on finding cases and articles. I've never been able to find things and I'd given up and thought 'if it's not in my textbook, I'm not going to read it' but the really simple instructions on searching gave me courage to try and now it is all so easy that I don't know what I thought it was a problem. If I'd had this book to do my first year legal systems course then I wouldn't have struggled nearly as much as I did. All you need as a student is someone to tell you how to do things but lecturers don't do that - they just expect you to be able to do it by magic and then have a go at you for getting it wrong. This book tells me how to do all sorts of things and now I am a much better student as a result. My only complaint is that I've had to get through two years of my degree without anybody telling me these things before. I mean, why not? This books makes it all so easy so surely someone at my university could have spelt things out for us a bit more. This should be compulsory reading for every law student everywhere.
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Great book, breaks things down clearly for you to understand. The style is friendly and doesn't make the mistake most beginner text book does by over complicating everything. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lawstudent
Waste of tree and glossy paper...
Long winded, teaches you the very basic things that you pick up in the first week with more ease. I will not go into the fact that this costs 2/3rds of the "Contract Law: Text,... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Alexander
Essential guide
As a distance learning student, I found out, that I needed something to fall back on, or assist me in my studies. Luckily, I found this book while searching. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Wobsie
Really useful for anyone new to law
I'm due to start a law degree in September, reading this book has given me a really good idea of what to expect and will help anyone who might be new to the legal world and needs a... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Jodie
Legal Skills by Emily finch and Stefan Fafinski
The Legal Skills book was highly recommended by my lecture as I am taking LLB law degree, I must admit it was really useful as it helps to understand how to write essays, how to... Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2009 by Ms. Sheila Acayo
good, step by step guide
it has a clear step by step guide to solving problems and other stuff
overall good product
overall good product
Published on 10 Nov 2009 by S. Giga
I love this book
If you are studying law, you need this book. It is like an encylodpedia of all the things that you need to knwo to do well on your degree. Read more
Published on 14 Sep 2007 by Green Matt
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