Client Interviewing and Counseling
A Selective Bibliography

Compiled by Cheryl O'Connor

University of Wisconsin-Madison Law Library

Revised: April, 2006

http://library.law.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/wp2html?interview.wpd

I. Treatises	II. Journal Articles	III. Video Cassettes

I. Treatises

American Bar Association. The Legal Beauty Contest: Recommendations and Proposed Guidelines for Preliminary Interviews Between Attorneys and Prospective Clients. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, 1996.

Location: KF/311/Z9/L43/1996

Bastress, Robert M. Interviewing Counseling and Negotiating: Skills for Effective Representation. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1990.

Location: Reserve Collection KF/311/B38/1990

Binder, David A. Legal Interviewing and Counseling: A Client-Centered Approach. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1977.

Location: KF/311/B5

Cochran, Robert F. The Counselor-At-Law: A collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling. New York, NY: Lexis Publishing, 1999.

Location: KF/311/C63

Herman, G. Nicholas. Legal Counseling and Negotiating: A Practical Approach. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis, 2001.

Location: KF/311/H465/2000

Krieger, Stefan H. and Neumann, Richard K. Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis. 2nd ed. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2003.

Location: KF/300/E87/2003

Lisnek, Paul Michael. Effective Client Communication: A Lawyer's Handbook for Interviewing and Counseling. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1992.

Location: KF/311/L57/1992

Macaulay, Stewart. Lawyer - Client Interaction: Who Cares and How Do We Find Out What We Want to Know? Madison, WI: Disputes Processing Research Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School, l984.

Location: KF/311/Z9/M32/1984

Nelson, Noelle C. Connecting With Your Client: Success Through Improved Client Communications Techniques. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, 1996.

Location: KF/311/Z9/N45/1996

Schoenfield, Mark K. Interviewing and Counseling. Philadelphia, PA: American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 1981.

Location: KF/311/S36

Shaffer, Thomas L., James R. Elkins. Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell. 4th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson / West, 2005.

Location: Reserve Collection KF/311/S5/2005

Twist, Helena. Effective Interviewing. London: Blackstone Press, 1992.

Location: K/120/T95/1992

II. Journal Articles

The following is a selected list of journal articles on the topic of client interviewing and counseling. Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are available in the Law Library Periodicals Collection, located on the third floor and are arranged alphabetically by title.

Abbott, Clay and Bubany, Charles. "Anatomy of a Client Interview (with Resources and Sample Questions)." 42 Practical Lawyer 61-78 (December 1996).

Beckmeyer, Karl. "That Crucial First Contact: Should You Take the Case? Techniques for Handling the Initial Client Interview." 6 Compleat Lawyer 16 - 20 (Winter 1989).

Chanen, Jill Schachner. "The Heart of the Matter (Need for Lawyers to Learn Communication Skills)." 81 ABA Journal 78-80 (March 1995).

Collins, Maureen B. "Tips for A Successful Client Interview." 85 Illinois Bar Journal 441-442 (September 1997).

Colon-Navarro, Fernando. "Thinking Like a Lawyer: Expert-Novice Differences in Simulated Client Interviews." 21 Journal of the Legal Profession 107-139 (1996/1997).

Custer, Andy M and Romano, John F. "Handling the Initial Client Interview." 21 Trial Lawyer 207 (July-August 1998).

Earl, Allan R. "Conducting the Initial Interview: Rules and Red Flags." 29 Trial 58-62 (April 1993).

Filip, Christine and Johnston, Ann E. "Misleading Message May Spark a Suit; More Often Now, an Attorney's Failure to Communicate Effectively with a Client Will Lead to Malpractice, Disciplinary Actions." 20 National Law Journal D1 (Nov. 10, 1997).

Gelhorn, Gay. "Law and Language: An Empirically-Based Model for Opening Moments of Client Interviews." (Paper Presented at the UCLA/IALS Conference on "Conceptual Paradigms in Clinical Legal Education.") 4 Clinical Law Review 321 (Spring 1998).

Gellhorn, Gay, Lynne Robins and Pat Roth. "Law and Language: an Inter-disciplinary Study of Client Interviews." 1 Clinical Law Review 245-298 (Fall 1994).

Hasuike, Reiko. "How to Communicate with Your Female and Minority Clients." 44 Practical Lawyer 54 (April 1998).

"Interviewing Clients Ethically." 37 Practical Lawyer 5-10 (Jan.1991).

Lidman, R. "The Power of Narrative: Listening to the Initial Client Interview" 22 Seattle University Law Review 17-29 (Summer 1998).

Robinson, Mary Beth S. "Putting Clients to the Test; Careful Screening at Initial Interview Can Minimize Malpractice Risks." 84 ABA Journal 80 (November 1998).

Ryder, T. "How to Interview Prospective Clients." 59 Bench & Bar of Minnesota 22-3 (December 2002).

Vilardo, Lawrence J. "Communicating with Clients." 27 Litigation 45-48 (Spring 2001).

To locate additional journal articles on this topic, try searching one of the databases of or indexes to legal periodicals available at the Law Library. Some of these indexes are only available in print and are located at the Periodicals Index Tables in the Grand Reading Room. Other indexes are available electronically through the Campus Libraries and Law Library Web Sites. Links are available at http://library.law.wisc.edu/elecresources/databases/articles.php.

Name of Index	Location	Dates of Coverage
Index to Legal Periodicals (and Books)	Periodicals Index Tables, Grand Reading Room	Index: 1880's to present
Index to Legal Periodicals Full-Text	Campus and Law Library Web Sites	Index: August 1981 to present

Full-text (selected): 1990's to present
Hein Online

Campus and Law Library Web Sites	Full-text: First volume to most current allowed under contract

III. Video Cassettes

Except where indicated, these video cassettes are available at the Law Library Circulation Desk.

American Bar Association, Consortium for Professional Education. Dilemmas in Legal Ethics: Part I Interviewing and the Lawyer Client Relationship; Part II Counseling. Chicago: American Bar Center, 1984.

Wolfson, Michael E. The Travel Agency Problem. Part 1. Interviewing the Client. Los Angeles, CA: Master Video Productions 1989.

Compiled by Cheryl O'Connor

University of Wisconsin-Madison Law Library

Revised: April, 2006(Client Interviewing and Counseling.wpd)