Outcomes

You will develop a methodical approach for analysing and re-assessing your cases as they progress. You will be able to:

1. Identify and manage a client’s objectives
2. Identify the correct legal framework and the key issues
3. Assess the evidence (what’s available and what’s required)
4. Develop options / select the best strategy for achieving a client’s objectives

Content

1. What are your client’s objectives?
2. What are the key influencers? (Possible results, costs, commercial relationships, etc)
3. Identifying the correct legal framework and understanding why it matters
4. Focusing your effort – how to identify what matters, and what doesn’t
5. Analysing every allegation - Admit / Prove / Deny
6. Analysing the evidence – Good / Iffy / Bad
7. Assessing and re-assessing the merits as the evidence emerges
8. Advising the client
   1. Tuning into their objectives
   2. Describing the options
   3. Dealing confidently with uncertainties