9th Annual Advanced Negotiation & Dispute Resolution Institute
Join the best litigators, mediators, and arbitrators from across Michigan in the "Must-Attend" ADR education, networking, and skill building event of the year! This diverse, award-winning program features an outstanding national speaker, multiple break-out sessions from which to choose including workshops, multi-media, stop-action discussions, advice about marketing from a professional, interactions with judges and neutrals, and an outstanding on-premises lunch featuring new Wayne State University Law School Dean and mediation guru, Robert Ackerman. Attend our cocktail reception to network with old friends, meet new ones, identify the right third-party neutral for your next case or perhaps settle one you're working on now! Our national speaker is the exciting Jim Coben, world class mediator, law school professor, and mediation trainer. Jim Coben is the creator of "Disputing Irony," a series of entertaining and educational video reenactments of "failed ADR" processes focusing on the errors that lead to litigation. "Disputing Irony" kicks off the 2010 Institute!
In the Arbitration Track, learn the unwritten rules of arbitration, and interact with a panel of Michigan's busiest arbitrators on issues of disclosure, dispositive motions, discovery disputes, relief, opinion writing, and more. Plus, don't miss Mary Bedikian's annual ADR caselaw and legislative update!
In the Negotiation Track discover effective techniques to prepare your client for settlement, take home effective strategies to make the most of judicial settlement conferences, learn more science of settlement from Barry Goldman, and understand the impact on your next negotiation when the shadow of bankruptcy looms overhead. Plus, join Jim Coben for an intensive 2-session workshop on negotiation skills.
In the Mediation Track earn 8 hours of advanced mediation training: Prepare for multi-party mediations; understand the impact of bankruptcy on the mediation process; negotiate and draft effective settlement agreements. We've also cooked up a new case study to compare mediator techniques with Susan Paletz and Bill Sankbeil. Join us for a stop-action, multi-media program with audience participation that includes a case that involves divorce and valuation of a professional practice plus a tort claim for transmission of a sexually transmitted disease. It ain't pretty!
In the Domestic Relations Track participate in interactive sessions including Jim Coben focused on bridging profound cultural differences in mediation. Recognize different negotiation styles - including your own - and develop better strategies to cope with each. Adopt non-violent communication skills in your practice, and, improve the way you prepare your client for mediation with advice from a successful mediator and divorce and life coach.
ANDRI includes 8 hours of advanced mediation training in an entertaining, energizing, and exciting environment!
Current sitting full-time Family, Probate, and Circuit Court Judges may attend free. Call ICLE to register at (877) 229-4350.