The Law To Know

Portal three

Interpersonal Skills

Law is done with people. These courses and rooms train the parts of the work no statute covers: how you negotiate, how you speak, how you keep calm under load, and how a client feels after talking to you.

  • Courses

    Each course has short modules, practice exercises and a certificate. The first module is free.

  • Practice

    Rooms where the other person answers back, so you see how your choices land.

  • Apply

    Take the skill into a whole matter in the Legal Clinics.

Interpersonal skills courses

Each course is sold on its own, and the first module is free to try.

  1. Across the TableCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Negotiate for your client: interests, walk-away numbers, offers and concessions, trades and packages, pressure tactics, listening, professional limits and closing, with calculators, practice negotiations and a capstone.
  2. Cooling the RoomCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Conflict resolution for lawyers: how disputes escalate, mapping a dispute, de-escalation, difficult conversations, choosing a process, mediation, power, culture and ethics, with practice mediations and a capstone.
  3. The Client ConversationCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Client relationships for lawyers: trust, the first meeting, fees and scope, updates in plain words, advice and decisions, bad news, boundaries and ethics, with practice meetings and a capstone.
  4. Steady Under LoadCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Stress management and burnout for lawyers: where strain comes from, early signals, tools for the moment, workload and boundaries, perfectionism, burnout and a sustainable career. General education, not medical advice.
  5. The Hours You HaveCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Time management and priorities for lawyers: where the time goes, priorities and hard deadlines, planning and estimating, focus, delegation, systems and a sustainable pace.
  6. On Your FeetCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Public speaking and presentation for lawyers: audiences and the one message, structure, spoken language, voice and presence, slides, questions under pressure and honest advocacy.
  7. Legal English for Foreign LawyersCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Legal English for lawyers and law students whose first language is not English: the layers of the language, core words and collocations, false friends, reading dense sentences, writing, contract clauses and speaking in meetings.
  8. Cross-Cultural Communication for International LawyersCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Work across cultures: styles of communication, hierarchy and decisions, plain writing for second-language readers, interpreters, time zones and deadlines, legal traditions, hospitality and bribery law, repairing misunderstandings and inclusive teams. With a Style Gap Map, an International Email Checker and a Meeting Window Finder.
  9. Delivering Bad News and Difficult ConversationsCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Say the hard thing soon, plainly and humanely: why we avoid bad news, preparing the conversation, a structure and plain words, shock, tears and anger, news to clients and families, news inside the firm, ending employment with respect and disclosing your own mistakes. With a Channel and Timing Planner, a Bad-News Message Check and a Mistake Disclosure Planner.
  10. Supervising and Giving FeedbackCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. Brief clearly, supervise in proportion, review so that people learn, give feedback they can use and help people grow: the duty to supervise, delegating, matching supervision to person and task, reviewing work and AI output, feedback, persistent problems and bias, and coaching. With a Delegation Brief Builder, a Supervision Level Planner and a Feedback Check.
  11. Listening and InterviewingCourseNew, Interpersonal skills. The evidence-based psychology of listening and interviewing: active listening, how memory works and the cognitive interview, the art of questions, what research says about lie detection, body language and NLP, interviewing clients and witnesses within the rules, and written questions. With a Question Type Analyzer, a Statement Comparison Table and an Account Evaluator.

On the drawing board

  • Business development and marketing for lawyers.

Practice rooms

Simulators where a person, not a quiz, answers back.

  1. Contract Negotiation SimulatorSimulatorNegotiate and structure a deal against a counterpart.
  2. Mediation SandboxSimulatorTry mediation from the mediator's chair and from each side's.
  3. Public Speaking SimulatorSimulatorPractise speaking in court, at a meeting and on a panel.
  4. Client Intake SimulatorSimulatorRun a first client interview.
  5. Legal Job Interview SimulatorSimulatorPractise the interview for a legal job.
  6. Witness Preparation SimulatorSimulatorFreePractise testifying against a cross-examiner.

Skills in a whole matter

Where the skills meet.

  1. Legal ClinicsLabRun a client matter from the first meeting to the closing letter. One matter is free to try.
  2. War RoomsLabMake decisions against a clock. One room is free to try.

Looking for something in another area? The other three portals are on the front page: Foundations of Law, Law and Data, and Legal Management and Careers.