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ADVOCACY AND REPRESENTATION COURSES
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Adaptive Legal Negotiation Skills (1 Day Workshop)
Adaptive Legal Negotiation Skills is a lively, interactive program that studies negotiation theory and practice, negotiation ethics and game theory, and uses role-play, case studies and high-energy, interactive lecture for maximum skill development. After experiencing the practical tools we share...[Click here to read more]
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Lee Jay Berman |
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Advanced Combined Claims Negotiation (1 Day Workshop)
At the American Institute of Mediation, our experience in working with negotiators is that most negotiate in a way that is consistent with their personality. Nice people negotiate with a more collaborative style, which can sometimes leave value on the table. People who like to play hard ball tend to...[Click here to read more]
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Mediating the Non-Litigated Dispute (2 Day Workshop)
Shows you how to apply your mediation skills to mediating the complex business deals and non-litigated business disputes. You will learn how this style of mediation is different from mediating litigated cases, including how to conduct critical pre-work and diagnostic services, secrets...[Click here to read more]
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Resolving Conflicts at Work (2 Day Workshop)
Every workplace generates chronic conflicts, yet few organizations have examined their "conflict culture" to see how conflicts are generated, supported and reinforced. Conflicts are viewed as personal failures; structures, systems and...[Click here to read more]
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PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT COURSES
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Legal Nuts and Bolts for Mediators: Legal and Insurance Terms of Art and Settlement Strategies (1 Day Seminar)
This course was designed specifically to pass down the knowledge of experienced mediators who specialize in these specific practice areas, to those who wish to expand their mediation practices into these areas. For example, it is difficult to mediate medical malpractice cases without knowing...[Click here to read more]
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Lee Jay Berman
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MASTERY MEDIATION SERIES
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NEW! Master Mediators: What Would You Do? with SCMA Annual Conference Plenary Panel (Approved for 1.25 CA MCLE credits, including 0.50 CA Legal Ethics specialty credits)
We often say that mediation is an artform, rather than a science. Users of mediation services often shrug at that notion. This panel will be asked to tackle difficult and challenging mediation situations, and you will get to hear these Master Mediators each answer what their personal approach would be to each situation. Hearing these ideas, will open mediators’ minds to new possibilities, and will educate counsel on how diverse the pool of mediators really is. These mediators are some of the best in the game today, drawing on their vast experience from many years of experience. You are guaranteed to be entertained, and to learn some new ways of looking at the conflicts and the people in front of you in your upcoming mediations.
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NEW! Bracketology 101
This Bracketology 101 course will make bracketing (and brackets) clear to you, so that you can use them with confidence, skill, and finesse. Bracketing can be one of the most effective negotiation techniques in a mediator's toolbox, when it is used correctly. It can also be one of the most misunderstood methods, if not. You will learn everything you want to know about using brackets in mediation and negotiation...[Click here to read more]
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Lee Jay Berman |
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Advanced Conflict Resolution Skills for Family Mediators and Collaborative Professionals (2 Day Workshop)
Some seminars are billed as advanced—this one is truly advanced. Every aspect of your practice will be examined, pulled apart, and put back together. What is your client intake strategy? How do you custom design each case to accelerate resolution? You will never use the word...[Click here to read more]
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Forrest (Woody) Mosten |
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Conflict Revolution: What We Can Learn From Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism (2 Day Workshop)
In all conflicts, there is a better outcome than winning and losing, a more successful process than accusing and blaming, and a deeper relationship than exercising power over and against others. These better outcomes are achieved when both sides win and...[Click here to read more]
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Ken Cloke |
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Expanding Leadership Capacity in Mediators (2 Day Workshop)
Working with real situations from the participants’ own experiences, you will return with insights and tools about how to move ahead on your own challenges. Exercises will build aptitude for...[Click here to read more]
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Erica Ariel Fox |
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Harnessing the Power of the Master Mediator Part 1 with Lee Jay Berman & Doug Noll
(2 Day Workshop)
This workshop is just what mediators need who feel like their work has hit a plateau. These are also the skills that mediators need to manage highly effective joint sessions. In this experiential workshop, we reach outside of classic mediation training and work with the tools that master mediators draw...[Click here to read more]
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Harnessing the Power of the Master Mediator Part 2 with Lee Jay Berman & Doug Noll
(2 Day Workshop)
Some mediators are comfortable. In mediating, they want, or perhaps need, to operate from a place that is comfortable. Perhaps they rely on either their substantive knowledge, experience and influence...[Click here to read more]
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Impasse is a Fallacy: An Advanced Mediator's Forum (2 Day Workshop)
The beauty of this course is that it exposes you to the experience of the trainer as well as all of the other advanced mediators in the course. The structure of the course, and why we call it a forum, is that we begin on the first morning by brainstorming...[Click here to read more]
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Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution (2 Day Workshop)
The words ‘mediating’ and ‘dangerously’ don’t often appear together. Mediation is usually thought of as an ameliorator of danger, a pacifier of hazardous feelings, a safe space. Dangerous mediation means approaching conflicts with...[Click here to read more]
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Ken Cloke |
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Negotiation Mastery: Managing Your Own Internal Responses to Win From Within (2 Day Workshop)
In Beyond Yes: Deeper Wisdom and the Art of Negotiation (Fundamentals), participants will learn the basic method that moves negotiators from competence toward mastery. In this course we introduce a system we call “archetypes and autobiography” to help people map their own obstacles...[Click here to read more]
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Erica Ariel Fox |
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Mindfulness & Competency: Thriving in Uncertain Times with Mari Frank (Approved for 1.0 MCLE Competence Issues Specialty Credit)
In this interactive program you will learn how to remain calm, enhance your brain capacity and be present to act decisively and positively in a crisis such as we are experiencing with the Covid 19. When you practice mindfulness, you will notice your mind moves from fear or frustration to focus on what you need to do to effectively deal with the situation. You’ll learn to better manage your emotions to help others manage their emotions competently. This will allow you to have better interactions with your staff, colleagues, clients, opposing counsel, and even your family. Your competency is determined by your ability to use your brain effectively. If you can successfully manage your emotions, you can transform negative stress into motivation and positive connections with clients, opposing counsel, staff and the court. Don’t miss this interactive mindfulness...[Click here to read more]
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Ethics & Civility in Negotiations: Maintain Power, Calm, and Sanity with Mari Frank (Approved for 1.0 MCLE Legal Ethics Specialty Credit)
Are legal ethics and civility possible in heated negotiations? Most of what we do is negotiation- whether with clients, opposing counsel, our staff, the court and even our families. This highly interactive program will empower you with proven techniques to get to a mutually satisfying result, without sacrificing your case, your reputation, or your sanity. We will incorporate the newest Rules of Professional Responsibility, the Civility Guidelines and emotional intelligence to help you be successful, powerful and keep sane. Effective negotiation skills are your most important tool in your practice, and in your life!!! [Click here to read more]
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Eliminating Bias in Our Law Practice: Understanding and Transforming our Biases with Mari Frank (Approved for 1.0 MCLE Elimination of Bias Specialty Credit)
The legal profession brings us in close contact with a variety of diverse people who come to us with the hope that we will fairly and impartially facilitate the resolution of their disputes and bring peace to their lives. Because we are humans who bring our emotions and previous experiences and preferences with us, it may be impossible to eliminate all implicit biases. But as we become mindful and introspective and conscious of our feelings and emotions reactions, we can use our logical brain to neutralize our external and internal biases. This program will show you how to do this...[Click here to read more]
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Mari Frank |
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Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Factor in Your Practice to Prevent Substance Abuse with Mari Frank (Approved for 1.5 MCLE Legal Ethics Specialty Credit)
Alcohol and drug abuse continues to be a problem among lawyers. This program will educate you as to the various indicators of substance abuse, and how emotions lead to substance abuse, and how it affects your practice. You will also learn how emotional intelligence factors are closely linked to substance abuse, and your competency with clients, opposing counsel, and the courts. You will learn how increased emotional intelligence is scientifically proven to reduce risk factors associated with substance abuse and for decreasing mental behaviors that impair your competency in the legal profession...[Click here to read more]
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Mari Frank |
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Legal Ethics & Privacy: Protecting Your Clients and Your Practice with Mari Frank (Approved for 1.5 MCLE Legal Ethics Specialty Credit)
Are you aware of your ethical responsibilities regarding privacy security in your office? You’ll learn practically cyber security and offline protective measures that will safeguard your clients’ sensitive information and prevent privacy violations in your office. Don’t miss this interactive informative program...[Click here to read more]
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Negotiate Your Way to Success with Mari Frank (Approved for 1.0 MCLE General Credit)
Are you intimidated by the thought of negotiating? Actually, you already negotiate all the time - at home, with family, with friends, co-workers, bosses, and when you make purchases. If you want to be truly effective and confident in all your negotiations, you need powerful skills to get your desired result . When you have the right tools, you’ll successfully negotiate satisfying solutions and build positive, mutually respectful relationships. This webinar will teach you proven strategies to get what you want, engage in respectful discourse, and create greater value for yourself and others. Don’t miss this insightful complimentary webinar to discover the “solutioneering” approach to top-notch negotiating! [Click here to read more]
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