Portland, Ore.: On April 28 and 29, the MBA, in collaboration with Willamette University College of Law, presents Ken Cloke, Julie Macfarlane, and Len Riskin - three of North America’s greatest teachers in conflict resolution - in a powerful, unique program entitled “Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century.”
This program aims to present the most significant issues, trends and skills in conflict resolution so judges, mediators and lawyers can resolve their cases more effectively.
Details and registration information may be found at www.mbabar.org.
April 28, Julie Macfarlane will conduct a small workshop for 50 lawyers who wish to expand their settlement repertoire beyond the adversarial trial model. The workshop will be based on her important book, The New Lawyer: How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law.
April 29, Ken Cloke and Len Riskin, along with Julie Macfarlane, will explore ways to:
§ Maximize your mediations and settlements to resolve conflict
§ Gain essential knowledge and negotiation skills for the New Lawyer
§ Analyze complex levels of conflict and conflict resolution
§ Use the language of conflict in litigation versus consensus-building
§ Build top negotiation and mediation strategies
§ Understand the neurophysiology of conflict
§ Discover the impact of the Neutral’s presence in achieving resolution.
About the Speakers
Kenneth Cloke, Director, Center for Dispute Resolution, Santa Monica, has served as a mediator, arbitrator, attorney, coach, consultant and trainer. His experience includes the university setting, public, private and nonprofit organizations, both in the US and internationally. He also has served as an Administrative Law Judge, a Judge Pro Tem and has been an arbitrator and mediator for over 27 years. He graduated from the U.C. Berkeley Boalt Law School and received a Ph.D and LL.M. from UCLA.
Julie Macfarlane, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, is a widely published author, teacher, speaker and lecturer on dispute resolution. In addition to being a faculty advisor and founder of Mediation Services and a full professor at the Faculty Law of the University of Windsor, her consulting practice offers conflict resolution service, training, facilitation and systems design for a range of public and private sector clients. Over the past 10 years, she has provided mediation training for legal practitioners, law students, civil servants, union and management groups, aboriginal council members, legal aid workers and health care professionals. Her current funded research is an empirical study of the practice of Islamic divorce in North America. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of South Bank and an LL.M. from London University.
Leonard Riskin, Professor, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, has been mediating, writing about mediation and training lawyers and law students for over 25 years. Much of Professor Riskin’s work has centered on mindsets with which lawyers and other dispute resolvers approach their work. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and popular publications and newspapers and books on dispute resolution. He has received awards for his work on the subject. Riskin has practiced mindfulness meditation since 1990 and has completed teacher training at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He received a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an LL.M. from Yale. In addition to his academic work, he served as a trial attorney and general counsel.
The April 28 workshop will take place at the Standard Insurance Center. The main program on April 29 will take place at The Governor Hotel and include breakfast and lunch.
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