This empirical study identifies and measures ways in which legal specialists with different levels of expertise (but the same technical legal knowledge) think differently when assessing legal risk in information-limited and time-constrained contexts. The insights of this research has the potential to improve the assessment methodologies used in lawyer accreditation schemes, change how users of legal services assess the expertise of legal specialists, increase the effectiveness of in-house training programs developed within law firms and by other legal service providers, and lead to new pedagogical approaches to the design and delivery of post-graduate, mid-career courses offered by law schools. They also provide a new foundation for scholarly research into the cognitive development of specialist legal expertise.
| Date of Award | 10 Oct 2015 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Supervisor | Nickolas James (Supervisor) & Peter Earl (Supervisor) |
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Thinking Like an Expert Lawyer: Measuring Specialist Legal Expertise Through Think-Aloud Problem Solving and Verbal Protocol Analysis
MacMillan, P. (Author). 10 Oct 2015
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis