Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence

Merritt, Deborah Jones; Cornett, Logan

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“…Professor Merritt, through her policy advocacy, empirical research, thoughtful scholarship, and skills-based approach to teaching, has created space for pensive conversations about systemic inequality. In addition to her renown as a Constitutional Law scholar, she has tackled, head on, the structural inequities furthered by: governmental response to public health crises; 113 hiring and promotion practices in the legal academy; 114 gender gaps in law school enrollment; 115 access to justice; 116 the manner in which we prepare 117 and license 118 attorneys for practice; and trial practice and procedural rules. 119 Her work models ways that thought-provoking conversations about racism and structural inequality can be advanced by those with inauthentic voices.…”

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Race, Rules, and Disregarded Reality

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Race, Rules, and Disregarded Reality

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The Language of Compassion: A Few Lessons from Michigan Lawyers on How to Communicate Compassionately with Personal Injury Clients

Cudowska

2023

Int J Semiot Law

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Though judges and lawyers encourage claimants to settle disputes out of courts, lawyers may struggle managing out-of-court dispute resolution processes. Some of the dispute management struggles are related to emotions of clients. One of the reasons why it may be difficult to manage a client’s emotions is because out-of-court disputes require a different communication skillset from lawyers. The following note features some advice for law students on how to incorporate compassionate communication methods in personal injury disputes. Personal injury disputes may be emotionally challenging for clients. Such challenges may manifest in communication issues and prolonged suffering of clients. Yet, both students and academics may dismiss the importance of soft-skill development in due course of legal education. As lawyer-socialization institutions, law schools have a duty to foster skills that are necessary to successfully assist clients in emotionally challenging disputes. This contribution discusses the notion of human suffering and compassion-based counselling scholarship in relation to personal injury disputes. The paper advocates for normalizing emotions in personal injury disputes, and through testimonials of Michigan lawyers, presents real life examples of how lawyers can communicate compassionately with their clients. Law students can benefit from learning about real-life examples of communication patterns between lawyers and clients to have better conversations with their clients.

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Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Race, Rules, and Disregarded Reality

Race, Rules, and Disregarded Reality

The Language of Compassion: A Few Lessons from Michigan Lawyers on How to Communicate Compassionately with Personal Injury Clients

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