4.3 Client Interviewing and Legal Counseling

The interviewing (the facts'-harvest): the setting (the privacy (the comfort (the confidentiality-signalled-from-the-start))) + the structure (the opening (the rapport + the purpose- explained) → the narrative (the open-questions-first (the story-told-uninterrupted (the funnel: the open → the probing → the specific (the closed-for-the-details))))) → the verification (the timeline- built (the documents-requested (the gaps-flagged (the chronology's-craft (the LAW5703's-facts'- verification-twin)))))) → the closing (the next-steps (the follow-up-list (the client-left-knowing-the- plan))); The interviewing's-techniques: the listening + the clarifying + the summarising (the mirror (the check-understood (the error-caught-early))) + the sensitive-topics-handled (the trauma- informed (the victim's-interview (the LAW5807's-companion (the patience-the-technique)))); Thecounseling (the advice's-craft): the options-presented (the honest-menu (the best-and-the- worst (the risks-quantified (the costs-disclosed)))) + the law-applied-to-the-facts (the prediction- hedged (the uncertainty-admitted (the guaranteed-outcome — never-promised))) + the decision- the-client's (the lawyer-advises (the client-chooses (the autonomy-respected (the U2.1.5's-own- returned)))) + the decision-documented (the advice-recorded (the confirmation-letter (the protection-the-both))));