This book thoroughly explores interviewing, counseling, negotiating, the business of lawyering, transactional work, investigations, pleadings, discovery, depositions, mediation, and dispute resolution planning. Materials prepare students for professions as civil practitioner, transactional lawyer, litigator, in house counsel, or businessperson. This 3d Edition covers the theories, strategies, and tactics involved with effective client representation and provides examples and illustrations of successful lawyers engaged in the practice of law. New materials include the impact of social and legal network communications, innovative approaches to modern practice, and the effective use of electronically stored information and data.