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    What Is Legal Counseling

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    Legal counseling is important in a law course as it involves advising clients on legal problems and appropriate remedies. After passing the bar exam, an attorney has several options - solo private practice if they have experience, joining a private law firm as an associate, working in a corporate law department, or government employment. Setting up a law office requires choosing an accessible location, arranging a neat office with law books, filing systems, and staff. When interviewing a client, the attorney should establish the relationship, determine facts, be frank yet avoid interruptions, take written statements, and advise on settlement options. Billing a client considers the case complexity, time and effort required, court appearances, unexpected motions, and appeal costs if needed. Alternative

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    Legal counseling is important in a law course as it involves advising clients on legal problems and appropriate remedies. After passing the bar exam, an attorney has several options - solo private practice if they have experience, joining a private law firm as an associate, working in a corporate law department, or government employment. Setting up a law office requires choosing an accessible location, arranging a neat office with law books, filing systems, and staff. When interviewing a client, the attorney should establish the relationship, determine facts, be frank yet avoid interruptions, take written statements, and advise on settlement options. Billing a client considers the case complexity, time and effort required, court appearances, unexpected motions, and appeal costs if needed. Alternative

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    Legal counseling is important in a law course as it involves advising clients on legal problems and appropriate remedies. After passing the bar exam, an attorney has several options - solo private practice if they have experience, joining a private law firm as an associate, working in a corporate law department, or government employment. Setting up a law office requires choosing an accessible location, arranging a neat office with law books, filing systems, and staff. When interviewing a client, the attorney should establish the relationship, determine facts, be frank yet avoid interruptions, take written statements, and advise on settlement options. Billing a client considers the case complexity, time and effort required, court appearances, unexpected motions, and appeal costs if needed. Alternative

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    What Is Legal Counseling

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    Legal counseling is important in a law course as it involves advising clients on legal problems and appropriate remedies. After passing the bar exam, an attorney has several options - solo private practice if they have experience, joining a private law firm as an associate, working in a corporate law department, or government employment. Setting up a law office requires choosing an accessible location, arranging a neat office with law books, filing systems, and staff. When interviewing a client, the attorney should establish the relationship, determine facts, be frank yet avoid interruptions, take written statements, and advise on settlement options. Billing a client considers the case complexity, time and effort required, court appearances, unexpected motions, and appeal costs if needed. Alternative

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    1.) What is legal counseling?

    Do you find it important as a subject in the study of


    the law course? Explain.
    Is the art of giving advice and information concerning the solution of a legal
    problem arising from a given state of facts and the adoption of appropriate reliefs or
    remedies under the law for the satisfaction and enforcement of a legal obligation
    before a judicial or quasi-judicial body.
    2.) Enumerate the factors necessary under the following:
    a. Deciding on what path to take after passing the bar exams.
    i. Solo private practice if one has undergone undergraduate legal
    aid training or apprenticeship with a private law firm before.
    Usually if from the province.
    ii. Assistant or associate In a private law firm organizing one with
    classmates or joining a law firm with some familiar friends
    iii. Joining a corporate law department high immediate salary, to
    gain experience and training
    iv. Government employment previously in the government,
    b. How to put up a law office
    i. Location within the busy districts, accessible to transportation,
    has parking space
    ii. Neat office, proper arrangement, reception rooms other luxuries
    if you can afford
    iii. Law books at the law firm
    iv. Library. Good office, equipment, billing and books, staff polite
    etc,
    v. Good filing system
    c. How to interview a client
    i. Establish items of a atty-client relationship
    1. Lawyer entitled to atty fees
    2. Client cannot dismiss lawyer at will
    ii. Determine the facts of the case put him at ease, tell him you
    are his friend who will stand by him, he has to tell the truth to
    you,
    iii. Be frank to the client
    iv. Avoid frequent interruptions
    v. Conduct your interview in the language that the witness speaks
    vi. Reduce to writing narration of witness at end
    vii. Interview all available witnesses
    viii. Determine clients needs and priorities
    ix. Tell the client amicable settlement is the best policy
    x. Determine the elements of potential claims, defenses, remedies
    and counterclaims
    d. How much to bill a client
    i. Nature of the case involved
    ii. Difficulty and intricacy of the legal issues as compared to
    simpler cases

    iii. Time and effort to be invested in drafting of the pleadings to the


    commencement of the litigation in court, the projected and
    number of court appearance up to its termination in the trial
    court
    iv. Other unexpected incidents like filing and arguing a motion, the
    estimated time and effort to be spent for argumentation
    v. In case of appeal, the expenses to be incurred in perfecting and
    appeal, preparation of appeal briefs, and additional amount of
    atty fees for the purpose of appeal
    vi. Should include transpo and representation expenses which
    should be specified as a separate item and payable only a day
    before the day of hearing, specifying the amount that the client
    is supposed to pay per appearance in court.
    3.) Discuss briefly the Alternative Dispute Resolution and when it is used.
    It is any process or procedure used to resolve a dispute or controversy, other than
    by adjudication of a presiding judge of a court or an officer of a government agency,
    in which a neutral third party participates to assist in the resolution of issues, which
    includes arbitration, mediation, conciliation, early neutral evaluation, mini- trial or
    any combination.
    Usually used, when two disagreeing parties come to an agreement short of
    litigation.

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