“An effective legal coach assists his clientele in clarifying their objectives with view to the the applicable, legal ramifications and imparts knowledge, skills and tools to achieve those objectives to self-representing parties or parties seeking to avoid litigation!”

Roland Straub

The Legal Coach is a mandate holder

Also as coach, the legal consultant is a party representative and thus a mandate holder of /her/his clientele. While the ‘conventional’ legal advisor or lawyer provides primarely his legal expertise and represents his client in disputes, negotiations or court proceedings, the legal coach applies a form of professional communication and process management that offers the client a protected framework to further develop her self-competence in order to make her own decisions or represent herself in a given case.

Legal Coaching is cost effective

The business model of legal advice has changed in the course of digitization; hardly anyone today engages a law firm for pure knowledge transfer or advice. Thanks to globalization and the Internet, information on any topic and on many legal issues can currently be accessed for comparatively low fees or even free of charge in a format that can be understood even by laypersons. As a result, when clients come to a lawyer appointment these days. they are often well-informed and expect to find a trusted partner to guide them through a crisis situation and help them change their current life encumbrances.

Pure consulting, a previous core competence of lawyers, is taking a back seat and instead competencies in crisis management, conflict resolution, empathy, communication and negotiation skills as well as strategic and systemic understanding are playing an increasingly important role.

Anonymous

What does Legal Coaching include

Legal Coaching is an umbrella term for a number of different services offered to our clients. Each individual engagement is appraised according to the client’s level of information, the facts of the case, and the file status of the matter. Legal Coaching may include some or all of these most common activities :

  • Advise and active assistance in drafting written and oral inquiries, pleas, and factual presentations;
  • Assuming representation vis-à-vis physicians, insurance companies, health care organizations, authorities and in out-of-court conflict resolution;
  • Taking over the organization, management and repreentations regarding the electronic patient records (EPR);
  • Assess the strengths and weaknesses of contractual and non-contractual liability cases;
  • Assisting in identifying and setting realistically achievable goals for suspected liability claims and provide strategic advice, dealing with the strengths and weaknesses of a case when asserting patient claims.
  • For clients representing themselves; drafting legal briefs, guidance on compliance with formal requirements, accompanying them to court (without pleading); in larger cases, taking over ‘case management’ to coordinate with litigation lawyers and experts;
  • Legal advice and legal research;
  • Drafting, reviewing, and commenting on administrative/court documents; assisting in the revision and/or drafting of important personal documents, such as living wills, wills, conventions, and contracts.