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Friday, January 3, 2003
8:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Annual Meeting Workshop on Dispute Resolution:
Raising the Bar and Enlarging the Canon
Concurrent Session: Mediation Advocacy
Teaching Mediation Advocacy:
Mediation Process and Advocacy Workshop Overview
Lynn P. Cohn
Northwestern University
- Transition from Negotiation to Mediation
- All students have taken Negotiations
- Mediation Process
- Live Demonstration
- Intensive Skills Training involving classroom and simulations with coaching/evaluation
- Focus on Facilitative Model
- Opportunity for students who are certified by local mediation services provider to do pro bono cases
- Evaluative/Transformative Mediation (and spectrum beyond labels)
- Choosing a Mediator
- Mediation Policy Issues
- Public Encouragement of Mediation
- Quality Control (Mediator Qualifications/Accountability)
- Confidentially
- Ethical Issues
- Transition from Trial Advocacy to Mediation Advocacy (Similarities/Differences)
- Representing a Client Role Play
- Representing a Client Role Play/Pre-mediation Submission
- Representing a Client in Mediation Role Play/Real Client/Professional Mediators/Advocacy Coaches
| Texts: |
Goldberg, Sanders & Rogers, Dispute Resolution; Cooley, Mediation Advocacy |
| Exam: |
Definitions/Analysis and Judgment in Scenarios |
| Class: |
30 students |
Bringing the Real World to the Class Room
and the Class Room to the Real World
- Role Play
- Real Clients
- Professional Mediators
- Practicing Attorneys Serve as Advocacy Coaches
- Feedback to Students on:
- Tone
- Use of Mediator
- Prep of Client
- Proposals
- Group Debrief
- Feedback from Students/Mediators/Advocates
- Students Learn
- Students Teach
- Mediator/Advocacy Candor
- Challenges
- Obtaining Volunteers (payback is hell)
- Changing Schedules
- Managing Expectations
- Benefits
- Information
- Collaboration
- Connections Between Groups
- Addressing what Plays in the Real World vs Class Room
- Modeling
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