Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution

Training and Conferences

 

Special Training Programs, Conferences, and Symposiums

• Conflict Resolution for Church Leaders
  June 20-22, 2013

• Doping and the Culture of Sport: Law, Science, Money and Ethics
  October 22, 2013

Mediating the Litigated Case™ Programs

• Mediating the Litigated Case™, Washington, D.C.
  April 8-13, 2013
• Mediating the Litigated Case^™, Malibu, California
  August 5 - 10, 2013

Professional Skills Programs

• 2nd  Annual Baltimore, Maryland Professional Skills Program in Dispute Resolution
  Baltimore, Maryland - March 20 - 22, 2014
• 26th Annual Summer Professional Skills Program in Dispute Resolution
  Malibu, California - June 20 - 22, 2013
  
  

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In addition to the academic program, the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution offers professional skills training for off campus constituencies. The Institute has provided negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution skills training programs for law firms, bar associations, governmental agencies, judiciary, and community groups. The entertaining presentation style, participatory format, and frequent use of simulated exercises to reinforce learning points, has caused the Institute's training programs to be in very high demand. While most of the Institute's training programs are provided in-house for employees of the sponsoring organization, programs open to the public are sometimes available under the auspices of organizations such as California's Continuing Education of the Bar, the Rutter Group, and state bar associations in Washington, New Mexico, and Texas.

The Institute also regularly offers professional education programs for MCLE credit on a full range of dispute resolution topics and advanced applications for mid career attorneys, judges, and other professionals. One of the most popular of these programs is Mediating the Litigated Case, a six-day program offered two or three times a year. In addition, every summer the Institute offers a collection of simultaneous three-day programs on various aspects of negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Next summer this program will be offered on June 21-23, 2012.  To view a complete listing of classes, click on "Summer Professional Skills Program".  For the sixth year we present the East Coast Professional Skills Program, co-sponsored by Vermont Law School. Five courses will be offered in Woodstock, Vermont, on September 20-22, 2012.

In addition to its extensive domestic agenda, the Institute has been able to be of service on five other continents. The Institute has provided technical assistance and mediation training to neutrals from MARC, Argentina's largest for-profit dispute resolution provider, both in Buenos Aires and in Malibu. Institute personnel have trained mediators in Holland's NETLAW, a consortium of eighteen prominent law firms throughout the Netherlands. The Asian Development Bank selected the Institute to provide training and assist the Indian government in establishing dispute resolution centers in New Delhi, Bombay and Hyberabad.  Straus presented Mediating the Litigated Case in Malaysia in September 2011.  Institute personnel have conducted programs in Australia and Russia as well as intervened in disputes in Kenya and Ghana. The Institute has hosted Fulbright Scholars from Tunisia and the Czech Republic. In the fall of 1996, the Institute provided a five-day mediation skills training for a United States Information Agency project bringing together Arabs and Jews in Israel.  In August 2011, Straus Institute offered training in Malibu to 33 international judges from 20 countries.

If you would like information on our academic programs (Certificate, Masters Degree or LL.M.) please refer to Academics.