Summer Institute in Dispute Resolution 2011

The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law hosts a Summer Institute geared to give law or graduate students, attorneys, and other professionals the chance to take intensive short courses on dispute resolution in Las Vegas. Courses offer one to two law school credits or 12 to 24 hours of Nevada CLE credit. This year’s offerings, provided by experts in the field, focus on the following:

COURSES
Collaborative Law
Representing Clients in Mediation
Divorce Mediation
Sports Law Dispute Resolution

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TUITION
$714 per one-credit course for Nevada residents
$1,428 per two-credit course for Nevada residents
$1,193 per one-credit course for non-residents
$2,386 per two-credit course for non-residents

APPLICATION
Submit a completed application form and a $150 non-refundable application fee to the following:

Christine Smith
Associate Dean for Administration and Student Affairs
William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-1003

Application form: click here

Application deadline: April 16, 2011

CLE CREDIT
One-credit courses qualify for 12 NV CLE credits.
Two-credit courses qualify for 24 NV CLE credits.

LOCATION
All courses are held at the William S. Boyd School of Law on the UNLV campus, which is centrally located in sunny Las Vegas. A sparkling oasis nestled in the beautiful Mojave Desert, Las Vegas offers world-class entertainment, dining, shopping, and nightlife.

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CONTACT
For more information about the Summer Institute, contact Sandra Rodriguez at (702) 895-2428.

SALTMAN CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
The Saltman Center, established in 2003, is nationally recognized for its dispute resolution program. The center hosts a variety of conferences, lectures, workshops, competitions, clinics, and courses. For more information about the center, click here.

Summer Institute in Dispute Resolution Course Grading Bases
For all courses prospective students should assume their final grade will also be based on class participation, attendance, and class preparation.

Collaborative Law: 10-page paper
Representing Clients in Mediation: 1-hour final exam
Divorce Mediation: 2-hour final exam
Sports Law Dispute Resolution: Classroom presentation and 15-18 page paper

Collaborative Law
1 credit or 12 hours of NV CLE credit
June 10, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-5:30 p.m.; June 11, 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Forrest Mosten
Adjunct Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law 

This highly interactive course covers the growing process of interdisciplinary collaborative practice of family law disputes. Based on Professor Mosten’s writings in mediation, unbundled legal services, building successful peacemaking practices, and collaborative law, participants will study the “New Consumer-Oriented Paradigm” of legal services and explore a range of approaches and skills that collaborative lawyers employ to resolve disputes for divorcing families. The course will also cover some of the foundational legal, ethical and policy issues arising in the context of collaborative law including the newly passed Uniform Collaborative Law Act, recent ethical opinions, and practice trends throughout the world. Through interactive exercises, participants will explore collaborative practice in a number of models from the perspectives of disputants, attorneys, and collaborative professionals such as therapists and forensic CPAs.

Forrest “Woody” Mosten is an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law who practices  as a collaborative attorney and mediator in Los Angeles. In his practice, Professor Mosten handles family law matters involving substantial assets and high conflict – and he never goes to court.  Professor Mosten is the author of four books, Collaborative Divorce Handbook (2009),  Mediation Career Guide (2001), Unbundling Legal Services (2000), and Complete Guide to Mediation (1997) and numerous articles on collaborative law, mediation, and unbundling. Professor Mosten is the recipient of the ABA Lawyer as Problem Solver Award and ABA Lifetime Award for Legal Access, the Los Angeles County Bar Conflict Prevention Award, and he was named Peacemaker of the Year by the Southern California Mediation Association. He is the guest editor of Family Court Review’s Special Issue on Collaborative Practice and he keynotes conferences and conducts trainings for collaborative professionals worldwide. In addition to serving on the faculty at UCLA, Professor Mosten has taught law school courses at Pepperdine, Hamline, USC, University of San Diego, Humbolt University in Berlin, and he was Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Education at Mercer University. Professor Mosten can be reached at  www.MostenMediation.com.

Representing Clients in Mediation
1 credit or 12 hours of NV CLE credit
June 17, 12:30-6:30 p.m.; June 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-6:00 p.m. 

Hal Abramson
Professor of Law at Touro Law Center, New York

Effective advocacy in mediation requires attorneys to consciously depart from their default practices honed in the courtroom and make thoughtful choices appropriate for mediation. This course expands the choices available to advocates seeking to enhance their representational skills in mediation by examining the three key features of effective advocacy. Participants will consider how to adopt an appropriate negotiation style, enlist assistance from the mediator, and develop and implement a tailored representative plan to achieve the full potential of the mediation process. The course is based on the insights and lessons from Abramson’s award-winning and widely used book, Mediation Representation-Advocating as a Problem-Solver in Any Country or Culture.

Hal Abramson is a full-time faculty member at Touro Law Center, New York, where he teaches, trains, and writes on how attorneys can effectively represent clients in domestic and international mediations. He is an experienced domestic and international commercial mediator and has taught or trained throughout the United States as well as in China, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, India, Israel, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, and Turkey. He served as Chair of the ABA Committee that drafted its mediation representation competition rules and assisted the ICC in Paris in launching its international mediation representation competition. He currently serves as co-chair of the IMI Task Force in The Hague that is designing an Inter-Cultural Mediator Certification Program. Abramson’s publications include two books, Mediation Representation-Advocating as a Problem-Solver in Any Country or Culture (NITA-2010, Oxford-2011, and Recipient of CPR 2004 Book Award) and International Conflict Resolution-ADR Consensual Processes (Co-Authored)

Divorce Mediation
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
June 20-23, 5:45-9:15 p.m.; June 24, 3-7 p.m.; June 25, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-5 p.m.

Bob Collins
Director of the Divorce Mediation Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

This six-day intensive training is designed to empower law students, civil mediators and family law practitioners to work effectively as divorce mediators. The course is structured as a dynamic blend of lecture, class discussion, extensive written materials, class review of videotaped sessions of actual mediating couples, and participation in role-play simulations. The twin goals of the course are to ground participants in the substantive and practical knowledge of family law, finances and personal dynamics required to act competently and confidently as divorce mediators, and to hone procedural skills so that participants can emerge as reflective – rather than reflexive – practitioners, with a sophisticated repertoire of mediation interventions at their disposal. In addition to introducing participants to an integrated system that utilizes 33 distinct divorce mediation techniques, the course will provide creative tips to help couples negotiate parenting plans, child support, asset division, spousal support, taxes, insurance issues, and divorce procedures.

Bob Collins has been practicing divorce mediation for just under 30 years. Trained in the first group taught by John Haynes in 1982, he was one of the founders, an original boardmember, and a past president of the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York, and he has been cited by Cardozo Law School as being among “the pioneers of divorce mediation in New York.” Professor Collins has been teaching mediation for over 15 years and has trained many of the mediators currently practicing in New York City using his manual, A Common Sense and the Crisis of Divorce. He teaches annually at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, he has trained divorce mediators for New York’s Safe Horizon program, and since 2000 he has taught Family Mediation at the Northwest Institute for Dispute Resolution at the University of Idaho College of Law. Professor Collins currently serves as the Director of the Divorce Mediation Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he teaches and supervises law students conducting mediations with couples referred by New York State’s Office of Court Administration. 

Sports Law Dispute Resolution
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
June 27-30, 5:45-9:15 p.m.; July 1, 3-7 p.m.; July 2, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-5 p.m. 

Maureen Weston 
Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law

This course focuses on the regulatory framework and alternative dispute resolution processes used in amateur, professional, and international/Olympic sports.  The course combines a study of sports law and practice, providing students opportunities to engage in the negotiation, mediation and/or arbitration of the myriad of issues that arise in the sports industries. Activities covered may include approaches to resolution of athlete eligibility disputes, gender inequity, grievance procedures, deal-making opportunities, player contracts, and disputes that arise among the relationships between players, teams, institutions, and governing bodies in sports.

Maureen Weston is Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. She received her J.D. from the University of Colorado, and B.A. in Economics/Political Science at the University of Denver. Professor Weston teaches courses on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, civil procedure, legal ethics, and sports law. She has taught law at the University of Oklahoma, University of Colorado, and Brasenose College in Oxford, England. Prior to teaching, Weston practiced law with Holme Roberts & Owen and Faegre & Benson in Colorado. She is actively involved in programs furthering opportunities for students to gain experience in negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Her service membership includes subcommittee chair for the ABA, Law School Division, Arbitration Competition subcommittee, former co-chair of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Education Committee and ABA, Representation in Mediation Competition. Weston is a frequent speaker and presenter at conferences on sports law, arbitration, legal ethics, and dispute resolution. She is co-author of casebooks on sports law and arbitration, and she has written numerous articles in the area of Olympic and International Sports Arbitration, disability law, sports law, and dispute resolution.