Competences

• Choose the correct strategy for defending clients' rights, while keeping in mind the particular demands of each area within professional practice.
• Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
• Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
• Identify conflicts of interest and know the techniques that are used to resolve these, determine the scope of professional confidentiality and maintain independence of judgement.
• Identify the essential service and organisational requirements for legal consultancy.
• Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
• Know the techniques for ascertaining the facts in different types of procedure, especially the production of documents, examination and expert evidence.
• Present facts and their corresponding legal implications orally and in writing, in a way that is appropriate to the context and the addressees and, where necessary, to the established procedures.
• Understand and be able to implement the activities that support the professional lawyer: organisation, management and commercial dealings, and their legal framework, governing association, taxes, employment and data protection.
• Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.