Mock Client Interviewing is an activity which develops inter-personal skills, team working and meeting management in the context of a fictional legal dispute. Two Client Interviewing Officers, elected by the students, are responsible for the smooth running of the various aspects of Client Interviewing at Newcastle Law School.
All first year students participate in a compulsory Client Interviewing Exercise , conducted in pairs, which enables students to interact with the local legal profession as firms of solicitors provide judges for the exercise. The two highest-scoring pairs in the exercise participate in the Law School's Client Interviewing Finals event as the junior finalists; the senior finalists are chosen following preliminary rounds among Stage 2 and Stage 3 students. The finals are judged by a prominent Newcastle-based solicitor.
The Law School also enters a team in The Client Interviewing Competition for England and Wales, performing well against often more experienced opposition.