Authored by a team of experienced scholars, Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis offers a readable and concise introduction to these indispensable legal skills. Using straightforward, concise, and practical explanations, The Third Edition takes a more concrete approach than competing texts and focuses on providing students with real-life examples and cases. an abundance of solid features make this text a dependable choice for your classroom: an experienced author team draws upon many years of teaching and writing about lawyering skills complete coverage of the essential skills, problem solving, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis, ensures a comprehensive approach exceptional coverage of fact analysis (not found in other texts) And The persuasive value of facts charts illustrate how to organize facts and fact patterns plenty of examples promote interest, accessibility, and place topics in context ethical concerns are discussed throughout the book, where appropriate the Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to provide students with the latest information: introduces new topics to counseling and negotiation, including decision theory and financial analysis of proposed agreements introduces new topics to negotiation, including creativity in generating options, drafting deals, and transactional bargaining provides additional material on narrative theory and legal storytelling includes a bound-in CD-ROM with a case file and planning exercises for counseling, fact analysis, and negotiation offers a fully updated Teacher's Manual that includes new and revised exercises