Practice Skills for Effective Lawyering
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About
This Course
This course teaches skills required for all types of law practice, including issue spotting and effective legal research, factual investigation, legal analysis, and legal writing.
The course uses real examples to guide attorneys through the process of finding legal sources, gathering facts, interviewing witnesses, analyzing the facts, and formulating legal conclusions. Great client communication is a must and can make or break your reputation and relationship with the client. Whether you are in-taking a new client, providing a status update, or sending a monthly bill, you are representing yourself and your firm each time you communicate with a client.
The course is designed for attorneys who are at the beginning and intermediate levels of law practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Perform effective legal research
- Identifying the legal issue
- Ascertaining laws relevant to the legal issue
- Perform effective factual investigation
- Collecting information relevant to the identified legal issues
- Interviewing witnesses
- Discover how to perform effective legal analysis
- Investigate how to perform legal writing
- Explore client communication best practices
- Understanding your client and their communication preferences
- Identify considerations for good negotiations
- Negotiating with a patent examiner
- Negotiating with opposing counsel
- Realize ethical obligations to communicate status updates
About the Presenters
Yifan Mao, MSc.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Yifan Mao is Counsel at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. She attended Santa Clara University School of Law. During law school, she externed for the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and interned with the Entrepreneur Law Clinic of the law school. Yifan has been admitted to practice in the State of California since 2015. Before her legal career, Yifan held research positions at Genentech and Genencor International (now DuPont Industrial Biosciences). Yifan was a senior patent agent at an agriculture biotechnology company, where she developed the company’s patent portfolio on genomics, bioenergy, and ...
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April Abele Isaacson, Esq.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Practice Area: Intellectual Property (+ 1 other areas)
April Abele Isaacson is the Managing Partner of Kilpatrick Townsend’s San Francisco office. April focuses on complex technical IP litigation and Hatch-Waxman cases. She has over 25 years of experience as a trial lawyer and is a registered U.S. patent attorney. She has a diverse experience in private practice and as in-house IP counsel. She started her career as a criminal prosecutor and defense attorney for the U.S. Navy. Outside her legal practice, April is the Founding Editor of MEMO blog and is the Founder and Co-Host of Sidebars, a podcast featuring leading women and other underrepresented groups in patent ...
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