Abstract
Language is an essential instrument for many professionals and lawyers are among those who occupy the first lines. The lawyers use the language to address the court, interview a client, negotiate a contract or a dispute. Communicative competence is crucial for the legal profession and participating in competitions for law students is one of the ways to foster and master it alongside taking traditional classes and courses. The article gives a brief overview of existing international competitions for law students and aims at finding ways of improving the International Negotiation Competition (INC) national rounds organization. This goal is approached by conducting a survey among former participants of INC national rounds in Russia and Norway and analyzing its results. The conclusions prompted are as follows: to conduct timely surveys among all participates, to engage former participants in national rounds organization, to work out new rules for holding online events.
Highlights
Understanding what your client wants and needs in addition to their stated positions, and trying to find a workable solution, is far more important than the legal rights and wrongs of what has taken place
Negotiation skills are important for all practicing lawyers
Lawyers need to consider and advise their clients on the principle that parties should be able to choose how to resolve their disputes and that litigation should be a last resort. Could this dispute be solved with help of conversations dialogue assistance, negotiation, mediation, arbitration (these are all alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods), or is litigation the best way? It is an ethical obligation to consider all those steps and with the client’s best interests of time, money, and emotional costs in mind
Summary
Understanding what your client wants and needs in addition to their stated positions, and trying to find a workable solution, is far more important than the legal rights and wrongs of what has taken place In situations like these lawyers spend a large proportion of their time negotiating effective settlements. Lawyers need to consider and advise their clients on the principle that parties should be able to choose how to resolve their disputes and that litigation should be a last resort Could this dispute be solved with help of conversations dialogue assistance, negotiation, mediation, arbitration (these are all alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods), or is litigation the best way? This is in addition to the lawyer’s thorough knowledge of the facts of the dispute, the law, and the procedures relevant to the case
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