1. Interviewing clients and witness -- 2. Advising and counselling clients -- 3. Alternatives to litigation -- 4. Preparing to commence action -- 5. Function, form and style of pleadings -- 6. Drafting statements of claim -- 7. Drafting pleas and special pleas -- 8. Drafting replications and further pleadings -- 9. Drafting exceptions and applications to strike out -- 10. Drafting applications -- 11. Preparing the case for trial: advice on evidence -- Preparing the case for trial : assembling the evidence -- 13. Preparation for trial ; legal research.