Revise SQE Oral Skills for SQE2: Client Interviewing and Negotiation

by Matthew Parry, Amanda Rees, Amy Sixsmith (Editor), David Sixsmith (Editor)

Overview

Oral Skills in Client Interviewing and Negotiation is an SQE2 revision guide for the SQE2 legal skills specification. It demonstrates how you will be assessed at SQE2 in the legal skills of Interviewing and Negotiation. The book makes clear links to SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge to help you understand how the law you learnt in SQE1 can be applied in practice, and there are SQE2-style sample questions to build your confidence in answering assessment questions.

Each chapter examines the SQE2 assessment criteria and outlines the essentials of each skill, followed by two SQE2-style practice questions with sample answers, and detailed commentary illustrating how the answers compare to the SRA’s competency requirements.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781917183086
Publisher:	Revise SQE
Publication date:	10/22/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	150

About the Author

Dr Matthew Parry is a non-practising solicitor-advocate (civil) and is presently a lecturer at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University. He is co-chair of the England and Wales Client Interviewing Competition National Committee, the National Representative of Wales for the International Client Consultation Competition and he regularly coaches law school teams at negotiation competitions.

Amanda Rees has an extensive background in Civil Litigation and Probate having worked in both city and regional firms. She led the Civil Litigation and Probate modules on the LPC course at Swansea University and the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Elective. She is an SRA external examiner.

Dr Amy Sixsmith is an Associate Professor in Law and undergraduate LL.B. programme leader at the University of Sunderland. She has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate law courses for 12 years, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was one of the academic leads involved in transforming the University’s LL.B. programme to comply with the specification of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, and has taught English Legal System to both law and non-law students.  

Dr David Sixsmith is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University.  He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Law and the programme leader for the Legal Practice Course and postgraduate SQE provision at the University of Sunderland. He is a non-practising solicitor and has previously been a partner at a high street firm. He is heavily involved with developing profession-facing legal education and teaches Dispute Resolution and Wills & Administration of Estates.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Interviewing and the SQE2 Assessment
Preparation for the Interview
The Interview: Opening the Interview and Gathering Information
The Interview: Providing Advice and Concluding the Interview
The Attendance Note
Negotiation and the SQE2 Assessment
Interviews: Worked Examples
Sample Interview Assessments and Responses