Legal Ethics 733532
Generic Skills
On completion of the subject, students should have developed the following generic skills:
- skills in identifying and resolving a legal problem
- skills in considering a range of options in response to a legal problem and in identifying those which are sound, principled, and best meet the needs of the client or other audience
- judgment and diplomacy skills
- interpersonal skills in relating to a client or other audience (actual or hypothetical) and in providing advice attuned to that person’s needs and interests
- skills in policy analysis
- skills in the avoidance, mediation and resolution of disputes
- skills in being open to new ideas and the perspectives of others
- skills in the critique of received wisdom
- skills in confronting unfamiliar problems
- skills in comprehending complex concepts and expressing them lucidly
- skills in speaking out against prejudice, injustice and abuse of power
