(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
My EQ is How can a bankruptcy lawyer best help his client reach a fair settlement?
My answers are Experience, Communication, and Transactional and Financial skills. Communication is my best answer because a lawyer has to communicate with his client, with the judge and with the trustee.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
First it began with some mentorship. Then I began to do research about what skills a bankruptcy lawyer needs. The interviews also helped because I keep hearing about how important it is to talk to your client.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
One problem was that my research was beginning to sound repetitive. I kept reading about the same thing no matter what looked for. I solved it by adjust my search.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
The first source is an online source call “What it means to be a Bankruptcy Lawyer” and the second source is also an online source called “9 Essential Skills for aspiring Lawyers.” The first source helped show me what a bankruptcy lawyer does and how he has to do it. The second source told me about the skills necessary to achieve the settlement.
Sources:
Love, Samantha. "9 Essential Skills for Aspiring Lawyers." Oxford Royale. Oxford Royale.6 Dec. 2013. Web. 25 Feb. 2016.
Barnes, Harrison. "What does it means to be a bankruptcy lawyer." Law Crossing. Law Crossing. n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.
