Summer Institute in Dispute Resolution 2013

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 three law school credits or 12 to 36 hours of Nevada CLE credit. This year’s offerings, provided by experts in the field, focus on the following:

COURSES
Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation Practicum
Introduction to Interpersonal Dynamics for Attorneys
Client Science: Introduction to Client Interviewing, Counseling and Decision-making
International Negotiations and Mediations

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TUITION
$854 per one-credit course for Nevada residents
$1,708 per two-credit course for Nevada residents
$2,562 per three-credit course for Nevada residents
$1,246 per one-credit course for non-residents
$2,492 per two-credit course for non-residents
$3,738 per three-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 External 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 19, 2013

The Summer Institute courses are part of the law school's summer course offerings. Boyd students will be able to register for these courses when summer registration opens in late April.

CLE CREDIT
One-credit courses qualify for 12 NV CLE credits.
Two-credit courses qualify for 24 NV CLE credits.
Three-credit courses qualify for 36 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.

Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation Practicum
1 credit or 12 hours of NV CLE credit
Letter grade 
Sunday, May 19 — 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 
Monday, May 20 — 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

John Lande
Isidor Loeb Professor at University of Missouri School of Law

Students will be involved in a simulation of a simple probate dispute. This course includes theoretical materials, as well as a debriefing of the simulation, which will incorporate hypothetical discussion. 

John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and former director of its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution. He received his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He began mediating professionally in 1982 in California. He was a fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Director of the Mediation Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School. His work focuses on various aspects of dispute systems design, including publications analyzing how lawyering and mediation practices transform each other, business lawyers’ and executives’ opinions about litigation and ADR, designing court-connected mediation programs, improving the quality of mediation practice, the “vanishing trial,” and planned early negotiation. The ABA recently published his book, Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money.

Introduction to Interpersonal Dynamics for Attorneys 
3 credits or 36 hours of NV CLE credit
Pass/fail
Tuesday, May 21 — 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 22 to Friday, May 24 — 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 25 to Sunday, May 26 — 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Joshua Rosenberg and Leslie Chin
Professor and Adjunct Professor, respectively, at University of San Francisco School of Law 

In Interpersonal Dynamics, students learn the skills essential to establishing, maintaining, and deepening effective relationships, increasing influence, and effectively resolving conflict. At the same time, they also increase self-awareness, self-acceptance, and authentic self-expression. The important learning in this course comes from neither reading nor lectures, but from in-class participation. This participation requires honest self-disclosure—sharing real-time feelings and thoughts with others and listening to others do the same. For more about the course, see Rosenberg, Interpersonal Dynamics: Helping Lawyers Learn the Skills, and the Importance, of Human Relationships in the Practice of Law, 58 U. Miami L. Rev. 1225 

Joshua Rosenberg has long been at the forefront of bringing an understanding of human behavior and psychology to the law and to law schools. He was among the first in the nation to create law school courses in negotiation and mediation, and mediation clinics, and now the very highly regarded course Interpersonal Dynamics for Attorneys. As well as teaching in this area, he has been an alternative dispute resolution advisor and consultant to both the Judicial Council of California and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and in that role helped the federal and state courts establish leading programs in court-related mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He has also been a faculty member for the California Judicial Education and Research Institute, where he taught alternative dispute resolution to judges. His articles on mediation and on interpersonal dynamics have been published in the Stanford Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, the Miami Law Review, and many other journals, and have been reprinted in numerous books on ADR. He is also a member of the mediation and arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and a member of the mediation and early neutral evaluation panels of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. 

Leslie Chin teaches interpersonal dynamics and skills at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and USF Law School through facilitating small groups and coaching students as they practice new behaviors. She has been a group facilitator and/or coach for half a dozen leadership and executive education courses. She designed an introductory course on relationship skills for Berkeley and USF law schools. Her private group facilitation practice includes women’s leadership and grief support groups. Leslie managed a variety of human services for 15 years. She founded a $10M regional office and launched a European office for the nation’s largest work-life balance consulting and services firm. She managed Human Resources for Citibank’s National Customer Services Division, including succession planning, staff relations and management development. She set up and managed out-processing and transit operations for Cuban refugees arriving on the 1980 Mariel boat lift and Southeast Asian political refugees immigrating to the U.S. after the Vietnam War. 

Client Science: Introduction to Client Interviewing, Counseling and Decision-making 
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
Letter grade
Tuesday, June 4 to Thursday, June 6 — 6:00-9:30 p.m. 
Friday, June 7 — 6:00-9:00 p.m. 
Saturday, June 8 — 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 
Sunday, June 9 — 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. 

Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Practice and Director, Center for Practice at University of Cincinnati College of Law

This intensive course focuses on the realities of working with clients, from the initial lawyer-client interview through the challenges of counseling the fully informed client toward wise and ethical decision-making. Short exercises, presentations, video, and role simulations will focus on how to communicate legal concepts, conduct interest-based inquiry and advice, work with client emotion and psychology, and introduce basic risk analysis. The effective use of voice, gesture, and body language in the lawyer-client counseling context will be studied. 

Marjorie Corman Aaron, Esq. is a Professor of Practice and Director of the Center for Practice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, teaching client counseling, mediation, mediation advocacy, negotiation, and decision analysis. She was formerly Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where she taught negotiation. Professor Aaron has been a mediator, arbitrator and dispute resolution consultant since 1988. She is a former Vice President and mediator at Endispute, Inc. Professor Aaron has taught workshops for law firms, corporations, and other organizations in the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients Through Bad News and Other Legal Realities (Oxford University Press, 2012) and many articles, chapters, simulations, and videos. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Professor Aaron initially practiced litigation at Goodwin Proctor and as a prosecutor in Massachusetts. 

International Negotiations and Mediations
2 credits or 24 hours of NV CLE credit
Letter grade
Monday, June 24 to Friday, June 28 — 6:00-9:20 p.m.
Saturday, June 29 — 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Monday, July 1 — 6:00-9:20 p.m.

John Garman
Professor at University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Students will get an introduction to negotiation and mediation from an international perspective. The goal is to develop essential skills for effective client representation in negotiation and mediation. The course will examine attorney responsibilities in advising clients about dispute resolution options, in preparing both the case and the client for mediation, and in representing clients in the mediation session itself. Students will be involved in two negotiation sessions as well as two to three mock mediations. 

John Garman’s background and experience is in International Commercial Transactions and Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR). He is an arbitrator/neutral and has conducted educational programs in Europe and the U.S., addressing issues concerning ADR and the international practice of law. Mr. Garman is a Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Certified Mediator with the International Mediation Institute, and a Neutral on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Panel. He is also on the Attorney Settlement Officer Panel of the United States District Court, Central District of California and a Neutral with the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District. Mr. Garman previously served on the International Bar Association Task Force to study and evaluate the text of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation. Mr. Garman is admitted in California, the District of Columbia, and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.