Title: 5 essential questioning techniques for legal professionals - One Legal
Headings: 5 essential questioning techniques for legal professionals
5 essential questioning techniques for legal professionals
#1 Open-ended versus closed-ended questioning
#2 Funnel questioning
#3 Asking probing questions
#4 Asking leading questions
#5 Asking rhetorical questions

Content: What time of day was it? A: Mid-morning, about 11 a.m.
Q: Tell me what happened when your car was hit? A: [ Open-ended answer.] The funnel questioning technique is useful in gathering very specific information about the past (using closed-ended questions), which allows for a clear establishment of facts about a situation, or scene-setting. Once the facts have become clear, the interviewer can then begin to ask effective open-ended question that enable more exploration of opinions or issues. #3 Asking probing questions
Probing is a technique that involves asking for more information about a previous statement. For example, if you needed something from a direct report who told you the information wasn’t accessible, you could ask, “what, exactly, makes the information difficult to access?”