The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling

359 Pages·2014·3.014 MB·English

by  Robert Cochran, John DiPippa, Martha Peters

THE COUNSELOR-AT-LAW:
A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH
TO CLIENT INTERVIEWING AND
COUNSELING
Third Edition
LexisNexis Law School Publishing
Advisory Board
Paul Caron
Professor of Law
Pepperdine University School of Law
Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation
University of San Diego School of Law
Bridgette Carr
Clinical Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Olympia Duhart
Professor of Law and Director of Lawyering Skills & Values Program
Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law School
Samuel Estreicher
Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law
Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law
NYU School of Law
Steven I. Friedland
Professor of Law and Senior Scholar
Elon University School of Law
Carole Goldberg
Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
Oliver Goodenough
Professor of Law
Vermont Law School
Paul Marcus
Haynes Professor of Law
William and Mary Law School
John Sprankling
Distinguished Professor of Law
McGeorge School of Law
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THE COUNSELOR-AT-LAW:
A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH
TO CLIENT INTERVIEWING AND
COUNSELING
Third Edition
Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
Director, The Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion,
and Ethics and
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
Pepperdine University School of Law
John M.A. DiPippa
Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
William H. Bowen School of Law
Martha M. Peters
Professor of Legal Education, Emerita
Elon University School of Law

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ISBN: 978-1-6304-3066-5 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-6328-1675-7 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
Publication Data
Cochran, Robert F., 1951 — author.
A collaborative approach to client interviewing and counseling
Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Director, the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar
Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics and Louis D. Brandeis
Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law; John
M.A. DiPippa, Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of
Law and Public Policy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
William H. Bowen School of Law; Martha M. Peters, Professor
of Legal Education, Elon University School of Law. — Third
Edition
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN: 978-1-6304-3066-5
1. Attorney and client — United States. 2. Interviewing in law
practice — United States. I. DiPippa, John M. A., author. II.
Peters, Martha M., author. III. Title.
KF311.C63 2014
347.73'504–dc23
2014030269
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Dedication
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To my mentors, Tom Shaffer and John Acuff, who taught me to love
my clients. — R.F.C.
To Karen, who brings light to my day, and Joel, Andrew, Micah, and
Nikolai, who make the day worthwhile, and for my parents, John and
Theresa DiPippa, whose love and devotion I can never repay. —
J.D.P.
For Lara Lazette Fitch and Griffin Samuel Fitch. — M.M.P.