Oral Communication

A brilliant legal argument, delivered badly, loses the courtroom just as fast as a weak one delivered well can win it. Oral communication is the umbrella skill this part of the paper is built around — everything from how you are heard in a client meeting to how you are judged standing up in front of a bench depends on it.

In two minutes

Oral communication is the exchange of information, ideas or instructions through spoken words, and for a lawyer it covers everything from client consultations and courtroom advocacy to negotiation and public speaking — making it as essential a professional skill as legal knowledge itself.

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