Soft skills for lawyers - HP3925

• Anglický název: Soft skills for lawyers
• Zajišťuje: Katedra národního hospodářství (22-KNH)
• Fakulta: Právnická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2021
• Semestr: oba
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 4
• Rozsah, examinace: 0/2, Kv [HT]
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Je zajišťováno předmětem: HDPV0144
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS
• Garant: PhDr. Mgr. Pavel Seknička, Ph.D.
• Neslučitelnost : HPOP0000

Anotace

Poslední úprava: prof. JUDr. Radim Boháč, Ph.D. (07.04.2019)

This course focuses on the major soft skills for lawyers. Students of Faculty of Law will learn by practise the development of soft skills, so the will be more successful and they will know how to practise law in efficient way.
The objective of this course are following: students will understand an importance of soft skills for lawyers; they will know how to learn the soft skills, they will find out the relationship between influence and efficiency communication legal process, they will learn about attorney competencies, attorney´s proficiency in soft skills, perceptiveness, foresight, creativity, fairness, judgment, courage, legal project management

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: prof. JUDr. Radim Boháč, Ph.D. (07.04.2019)

Main topics of the course: 
1. Introduction to Soft Skills 
2. The Difference between Soft Skills and Emotional Intelligence. Do Lawyers need Soft Skills? 
3. The most Important Soft Skills, Attorney Competencies, Attorney´s Proficiency in Soft Skills 
4. Self-Awareness 
5. Self-Development 
6. Communication, Empathetic Listeners 
7. Perceptiveness, Foresight, Creativity, Fairness, Judgment, Courage, Confidence and Persistence 
8. Negotiation: Types of Negotiations, Dirty Tricks 
9. Leadership 
10. Planning and Strategy 
11. Team Leadership, follower´s Roles and Responsibilities 
12. Time Management 
13. Legal Project Management 

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: Ing. Dagmar Charvátová, Ph.D. (01.04.2019)

Exam is oral. 

Studijní opory

Poslední úprava: Michaela Špačková (27.03.2019)

Basic reference literature
Elkington, Annabel, Holtam, John, Shield, Gemma and Stephanie Verlander. (2017). Skills for Lawyers 2017/18. College of Law Publishing.

Kiser, Randal (2017). Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Recommended literature

Adamson, John, E. and Amanda Morrison. Law for Business and Personal Use. Mason: Cengage Learning, Inc

Alt, Joshua, Kerew, Kendall and Laws Jennifer (2018). Lawyering from the Inside Out. Learning Professional Development through Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bennett, Steven, J. Playing Hardball with Soft Skills. How to Prosper with Non-Technical Skills in a High-tech World. Bentam Books

Giusti, Giuseppe (2008). Soft Skills for Lawyers. London: Chelsea Publishing,

Keppel-Palmer, Marcus and Mike Maughan (2004). Lawyers´ Skills. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Webb Julian, Maughan, Caroline, Maughan, Mark, Keppel-Palmer, Marcus and Andrew Boon (2017). Lawyers´ Skills. 21^st Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.