Syllabus
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
Annotation
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