Mediate Better! The ABA's Task Force on Improving Mediation Quality

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A 90-Minute Teleconference and Live Audio Webcast
Date: 
10/14/2008 11:00 - 12:30
ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education

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Mediate Better!
The ABA's Task Force on Improving Mediation Quality

Brought to you by The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education

A 90-Minute Teleconference and Live Audio Webcast

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Central
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Mountain | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific

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Why aren't all of your cases settling in mediation? Why do you sometimes find that mediations are conducted in a manner that is not what you expect?

The ABA Task Force on Mediation Quality conducted meetings with mediation users (mainly lawyers, some parties) in ten cities across North America and collected important insights into what users like and don't like--what those users believe works and what doesn't. The 2008 Task Force Report made findings about several areas of mediation practice that were themes for repeated critique and analysis in our meetings: mediation preparation by parties, counsel, and mediators; case-by-case customization of the mediation process; use of analytical techniques by mediators; and persistence and follow-up by mediators.

Four members of the Task Force--an in-house lawyer for a major insurance company, a litigator in a large law firm, and two mediators-will discuss the findings of the Task Force.

The discussion will focus on how mediators engage parties and counsel with different analytical techniques, targeting both the merits of disputes and negotiating issues-and how they do so consistent with the goal of providing the highest quality mediation services.

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Event code: CET8MEB

Our Panel

Program Moderator
R. Wayne Thorpe, Mediator/Arbitrator/JAMS Atlanta Office Director, JAMS Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Program Faculty
John Bickerman, Bickerman Dispute Resolution, PLLC, Washington, DC

John Buchanan, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC

Deborah Masucci, Vice President, American International Companies, New York, NY

Tuition

$85

Dispute Resolution Members

$125

ABA Members

$150

General Public

$75

Government Attorneys

$60

Additional registrants who use the same phone line

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