A FREE Half-Day Workshop on Achieving Better Solutions in Negotiation and Mediation
Brought to you by the
ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, Government Committee
in cooperation with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and
the Federal Interagency ADR Working Group (IADRWG)
Presenters: John W. Cooley and Professor Sheila Maloney
Monday, May 21, 2007, 9:00
AM-12:30 PM
Securities and Exchange Commission Auditorium
This is a fast-moving, highly interactive half-day workshop on applying creative thinking skills to achieve better solutions in negotiation and mediation. Participants, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, will gain helpful insights into creative techniques that can be immediately put to use in their professional and personal lives. They will also jointly benefit from the experience of working together to design creative solutions in challenging role-play exercises. When you have finished this half-day workshop, you will be energized to use your creativity to enhance your success in your future negotiation and mediation endeavors.
Faculty
John W. (Jack) Cooley is a former U.S. Magistrate, Assistant
U.S. Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit, and a litigation partner in a Chicago law
firm. He has served as a Special Master for federal judges and as
an arbitrator and mediator in a wide variety of complex, multi-million
dollar commercial disputes, both domestic and international. Jack
has authored four books and more than a hundred articles on litigation,
judicial, and ADR topics, and he is the principal writer and editor
of a two-volume work entitled The Creative Problem Solver's Handbook
for Negotiators and Mediators (this will be a link to the CPS handbook),
published by the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution in cooperation
with the Association for Conflict Resolution in 2005.
Professor Sheila Maloney is the Assistant Director for the Program on Negotiation and Mediation at the Northwestern University School of Law. She teaches courses in interest-based negotiation principles and skills. Professor Maloney is the recipient of the 2006 Dean's Teaching Award and the John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship.
CLE: 3.25 hours of CLE credit requested for 60 minute States, 3.90 hours of CLE credit requested for 50 minute States.
RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR SECURITY: To register email your FIRST and LAST NAME to Stephen Kotev