Summer Institute in Dispute Resolution 2012

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
Divorce Mediation
Negotiation
Dealing with Difficult Clients
International Commercial Arbitration

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TUITION
$854 per one-credit course for Nevada residents
$1,708 per two-credit course for Nevada residents
$1,246 per one-credit course for non-residents
$2,492 per two-credit course for non-residents

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

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, 2012

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.

Divorce Mediation
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
Saturday, June 9 — 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Monday, June 11 to Friday, June 15 — 5:45-9:15 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.

Negotiation
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
Tuesday, May 29 to Thursday, May 31 — 5:45-9:15 p.m.
Saturday, June 2 — 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Monday, June 4 to Tuesday, June 5 — 5:45-9:15 p.m.

James Coben
Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law

This course examines the skills, constraints, and dynamics of the negotiation process. A theoretical framework for understanding negotiation practice in a variety of contexts will be developed through readings and highly interactive exercises and roleplays. The course addresses the fundamental skills of systematic and thorough negotiation preparation, the ongoing management of a negotiation process, and the identification and achievement of optimal agreements. Legal and ethical constraints of negotiation also are considered. Course content is drawn from the fields of law, psychology, business, and communication.

James Coben is a senior fellow in the Hamline’s Dispute Resolution Institute which he directed from 2000-2009. He teaches civil procedure, mediation, and negotiation, and developed international ADR study abroad opportunities for students in London, Rome, and Budapest. He also pioneered a variety of innovative ADR clinical opportunities for law students, including mediation advocacy on behalf of clients in family law and employment cases. He has published numerous ADR-related articles, and is co-author of the third edition of Mediation: Law, Policy & Practice (West 2011), co-editor of Rethinking Negotiation Teaching (DRI Press 2009) and Venturing Beyond the Classroom: Volume 2 in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Series (DRI Press 2010), and a founding editor of Tán Pàn: The Chinese-English Journal on Negotiation. Together with Hamline colleague Peter Thompson, he created the Mediation Case Law project, a multi-media resource devoted to studying “failed” mediations – those unhappy situations where people who thought they were using mediation to resolve a conflict end up creating altogether new litigation about the mediation process itself.

Dealing with Difficult Clients
1 credit or 12 hours of NV CLE credit
Saturday, June 16 to Sunday, June 17 — 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Dwight Golann
Professor of Law at Suffolk University, Boston

Parties are drawn into and remain mired in conflict due to complex forces which are both psychological and tactical in nature. This course explores why this occurs and how a lawyer can effectively counsel a client in the grip of such influences. The course will begin with exercises that lead class members to feel the influence of these factors personally and go on to experiment with techniques that can help a client make difficult decisions without losing confidence in his or her lawyer. Much of the class will be devoted to exercises and roleplays.

Dwight Golann is the author of Resolving Disputes: Theory, Law, and Practice, Mediating Legal Disputes, as well as other books, articles and videos. He has taught seminars in negotiation and mediation for law firms in North America and Europe and has led training for the ABA, the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Union, the US-China Business Mediation Center of Beijing and other entities. Professor Golann is past Chair of the ADR Section of the American Association of Law Schools and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Program on Negotiation and a Visiting Professor at Boston University and the University of Oregon Law Schools. He was formerly a private litigator and served as Chief of the Trial Division of the Attorney General of Massachusetts. He is an Honorary Member of the American College of Civil Mediators.

International Commercial Arbitration — A Hands On Approach
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
Thursday, June 21 to Friday, June 22 — 5:45-9:15 p.m.
Saturday, June 23 — 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Monday, June 25 to Wednesday, June 27 — 5:45-9:15 p.m.

Babak Barin, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec

The United States of America is Canada’s largest trading partner and the countries share the longest common border. Any business lawyer—young, experienced or even a renowned expert—in the United States will at some point in his or her career, be required to give advice on or participate in a cross-border dispute resolution process. If you are interested in getting a taste of what it is like to practice international commercial law, and especially international commercial arbitration, this course is for you!

Babak Barin is a frequent speaker at many national and international conferences, Babak Barin is recognized by Lexpert to be among Canada’s “Most Frequently Recommended Litigators”. In 2006, Mr. Barin was identified internationally by Global Arbitration Review as one of 45 leaders under 45 in the field of international commercial arbitration. Educated in Europe, the United States and Canada, Mr. Barin is admitted to practice law in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, England and Wales. He has represented and continues to act for domestic and international private and state parties before tribunals and national courts in a variety of disputes. He also sits as sole and party-nominated arbitrator in international and domestic disputes. Mr. Barin is the Chair of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association and a member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) roster of arbitrators in Canada, and Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA).

Guest Lecturer: Marie-Claude Rigaud, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal; Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec

Marie-Claude Rigaud teaches and conducts research in the areas of dispute resolution, legal ethics and professionalism. She also lectures at the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto). She is the co-editor of the Journal of Arbitration and Mediation.