Specialized Mediation: Tools to Unlock the Unique Features of Employment, Professional Malpractice, and Personal Injury Disputes**
(**Prior mediation training and practice is critical - minimum of 50 cases mediated required.)
Jeffrey Krivis, Eric R. Galton, & Tracy L. Allen
This highly interactive course moves beyond basic mediation theory and technique, and into the realm of how highly experienced mediators from around the country handle the difficult dimensions unique to these subject matters. Together the class and faculty will pull back the curtains and experience the inside of the mediation room from multiple perspectives. A goal of the course is to stretch the limits of participants' abilities so they are prepared to manage both the routine and the complex case.
What you will learn:
- The transitional discussions from facts to money
- Ways to use bracketing in money negotiations
- Obtaining doctors' consent to settle
- Expanding resources beyond money in employment cases
- Using the client factor in employment disputes
- Hybrid approaches to the mediator's proposal
- Developing timing and making proposals
- Using conditional deals in product liability cases
- Managing multiparty complex negotiations
Jeffrey Krivis is the author of two books: Improvisational Negotiation: A Mediator's Stories of Conflict About Love, Money, Anger - and the Strategies that Resolved and How to Make Money as a Mediator (and Create Value For Everyone) (Wiley/Jossey-Bass 2006). Krivis is past president of both the International Academy of Mediators and the Southern California Mediation Association. The Los Angeles Daily Journal legal newspaper named him one of the Top 20 Neutrals in the state, and he continues to appear as a selected neutral for the Super Lawyer and Best Lawyers in America publications. .
Eric R. Galton is a full-time mediator, arbitrator, and lecturer. Galton's book, Mediation: A Texas Practice Guide, received the Center for Public Resources annual book award. He is a member of the Texas State Bar ADR Section and serves on the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, the board of directors for the Texas Association of Mediators, and is a member of the Academy of Attorney Mediators. He has practiced law for twenty-five years, and is currently a partner in the firm of Galton, Cunningham & Bourgeois, a purely dispute resolution and mediation firm in Austin, Texas.
Tracy L. Allen is a full-time national and international neutral mediator, arbitrator, and trainer. As a business, commercial, and tax attorney, she now provides ADR and conflict resolution services throughout the world.
She has authored numerous articles and training materials on ADR for neutrals, advocates, and service providers. She has also lectured and coauthored materials on specific subject matter topics in ADR in real estate, tax, securities, employment, technology, and business planning. As a former college and law school professor, Allen serves on the roster of several dispute resolution organizations including the CPR Distinguished Panel of Neutrals. She is a Fellow and past president of the International Academy of Mediators.