Litigation Skills
Our range of litigation skills training courses offers all the know-how and skills your litigators and claims managers need to be effective.
Wide range of courses
Case analysis leads seamlessly on to case management and procedural skills aimed at making effective progress and reducing shelf-life. Our communications skills courses for litigators include persuasive conversations, negotiating and a wide range of drafting skills. Our wide range of litigation skills training covers everything your litigators and claims handlers will need from first instructions to settlement or trial and beyond.
Building, coaching and testing skills
Face-to-face, online and e-learning courses available. Combine short courses with tailored exercises, online assessments and personalised coaching for fast and effective skills development.
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Courses
The training combines a comprehensive suite of e-learning with 121 coaching so you can practise your advocacy and receive expert feedback. This flexible approach includes expert guidance and over 45 advocacy demonstrations.
The Anatomy of Persuasive Conversations helps you achieve your aims by focussing on relationships, the cognition of decision-makers, and the process of decision-making.
Strong case analysis skills are crucial to making good liability decisions in motor claims. This course is perfect to build on a basic understanding of the law and focuses on how to analyse the evidence, apply legal knowledge and explain liability decisions to clients and opponents.
Strong case analysis skills are crucial to making good liability decisions in tripping and slipping claims. This course is perfect to build on a basic understanding of the law and focuses on how to analyse the evidence, apply legal knowledge and explain liability decisions to clients and opponents.
This case management training helps lawyers and paralegals learn to manage legal cases effectively, reduce the “shelf-life” of claims, and achieve positive outcomes.
Understanding the litigation procedure and Civil Procedure Rules in civil claims provides context for the early stages of investigating injury and motor claims and improves outcomes.
Understanding how our brains work helps lawyers to appreciate how we make decisions, how we can influence others, and how we can be misled. We extract some of the very best recent insights and apply them to practical professional settings.
The training combines a comprehensive suite of e-learning with 121 coaching so you can practise your advocacy and receive expert feedback. This flexible approach includes expert guidance and over 75 advocacy demonstrations.
This course will build your skills and confidence in successfully completing each section of the directions questionnaire before returning it to the court.
Whilst there aren't any formal legal requirements to writing a brief, a well-structured set of clear instructions is vital to ensure counsel does the best possible job representing your client.
Drafting a defence provides simple and reliable techniques for analysing the particulars of claim, deciding how to respond to the allegations it contains, and then drafting the defence.
Drafting a letter of response helps junior defendant litigators with developing vital and consistent skills for writing effective letters of response that comply with the Civil Procedure Rules.
This course provides guidance for information gathering, planning and deadlines, as well as drafting techniques for producing effective directions in civil litigation matters.
Drafting interim applications is a course that helps junior defendant litigators to develop vital and consistent skills for when applying for a court order.
Drafting a witness statement is not a simple task. This course will help you draft effectively so your statements comply with the CPR and are an accurate and reliable account of each witness’s evidence.
Anyone working in motor claims needs to understand the fundamentals of credit hire and the main terms of a credit hire agreement.
Strong legal research skills are fundamental for all lawyers. This course will provide you with the strategy and techniques to find accurate, current law and deliver great results for clients.
Litigation in the driving seat is a practical course that highlights opportunities for litigating efficiently, putting legitimate pressure on opponents and driving cases towards settlement or trial.
This managing litigants in person course will help you develop strategies for managing your interactions to minimise any difficulties.
The effective and confident use of mediation is a vital part of a litigator’s toolkit, especially with the increased willingness by the courts to order parties to engage in ADR.
Negotiation skills for lawyers helps you select the right strategies and tactics, plan the negotiation, and then negotiate confidently whatever the other side’s approach.
Negotiation skills for litigators helps you select the right strategies and tactics, plan the negotiation, and then negotiate confidently whatever your opponent’s approach.
Knowing how to submit and respond to a Part 18 request for information can be key to advancing your client's claim or defence.
Persuasive writing for litigators will help you write quickly and with a clear sense of purpose and structure. Your key points will stand out and your tone will be consistent and professional.
PD57AC introduced new rules on interviewing witnesses and drafting trial statements in the Business & Property Courts. Legal representatives must sign a certificate of compliance so it’s vital you understand the do’s and don’ts.
Perfect for junior lawyers handling litigated motor claims on the Fast Track. Learn how to use the CPR proactively to help shorten shelf-life and improve profitability.
Learn how to use the Civil Procedure Rules to take a proactive approach to case management. This course will help you to run fast track claims efficiently and settle cases more quickly and profitably.
