This interactive skills-based program will focus on improving your skills as an advocate for your clients in mediation. Mediation isn't just a stop on your way to trial. Being an effective advocate is what your clients deserve, and helps you expand your advocacy toolbox. Join our amazing trainers in improving your skills and ability to succeed in mediations.
Learning Objectives:
What should you know prior to a mediation meeting, including how to prepare?
How can you prime the mediator before and during your mediation meeting?
Learn to work with strong emotions and manage expectations.
Understand the art of slowing down to actually reach settlement faster.
Gain practicle skills to use with your clients.
How to best negotiate a deal in mediation.
Understand what advocacy for your clients looks like in a mediation session.
So much more....
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Earn 3 Ethics CLE credits!
When:
April 14, 2023 | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m
Where:
Via Zoom
This is an interactive training, so please plan to attend with your video on. The training will not be recorded.
Instructors:
Art Hinshaw, JD, LLM |
Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Art Hinshaw is the John J. Bouma Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution and a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Professor Hinshaw is the Founding Director of the award-winning Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center and is the lead editor of Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Foundational Articles, a retrospective of the dispute resolution field. Additionally, he has co-authored the textbooks Dispute Resolution & Lawyers: A Contemporary Approach (6th ed.) and Negotiation & Lawyers as well as authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters. In 2017 his article Regulating Mediators won the prestigious CPR Award for Outstanding Professional Article from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Professor Hinshaw is active in the ADR community having served on several academic and professional committees at the state and national levels. Currently, he serves as a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance and is a contributor to Indisputably, the ADR Prof Blog. Outside of the ADR realm, Professor Hinshaw is a former member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Prior to joining ASU, he taught at the University of Missouri School of Law and at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Before his academic career, he practiced law in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kristine Reich, Esq., MSW |
Attorney, Mediator, Social Worker
Restorative Law & Mediation, PLLC
In mediation, collaborative divorce, and family and juvenile law matters, Kristine has over two decades of experience working with families and children experiencing difficult transitional life events. Borne of a deep appreciation for holistic, solution focused practice, Restorative Law and Mediation was organized in December 2014. Kristine’s multi-disciplinary approach to practice is influenced by her legal education received from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (JD ’08), and Masters in Social work at Arizona State University (ASU) (MSW '93). Having practiced family law since 2011, she has worked as a faculty associate or in legal education since 2008, and was a child welfare social worker and therapist for fifteen (15) years prior to law school. Kristine has consulted with Maricopa County Juvenile Court in professionalizing child welfare dispute resolution. She is formerly the statewide Director of Training for what is now the Child Welfare Training Institute at the Arizona Department of Child Safety and the Director of Adoptions for Aid to Adoption of Special Kids (AASK). Kristine is currently a Faculty Associate at the Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law at Arizona State University, teaching courses and leading training workshops in mediation and conflict resolution. Kristine’s best days in the profession are being witness to the transformative process of those that start in despair, and go on to create joyful futures.
Andi Paus, Esq. |
Attorney, Mediator
Arizona Mediation Institute
Andi J. Paus, Esq. practiced as a family law litigator for 15 years before transitioning her practice 10 years ago into family law mediation, arbitration, and special master work. Andi is a graduate of Creighton University School of Law and has been admitted to practice in Arizona, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. Andi started her practice of law as a family law associate at Hallier Law. After a few years years with the firm, she and her family moved from Arizona to Overland Park, Kansas, returning to her Midwestern roots. While in Kansas, Andi started her own family law firm, practiced family law litigation and Collaborative Divorce, primarily in Johnson County, Kansas. In 2006, Andi returned to Arizona where she continued her practice of family law litigation, and she started facilitating some mediations. Always knowing conflict resolution and peacemaking was her true passion, Andi joined Arizona Mediation Institute and became a partner in 2012. She has enjoyed her work as a mediator, arbitrator, special master, and parenting coordinator. Andi has retained a very small litigation practice with her firm, Paus Law PLC, as she believes it is important to her mediation clients that she be in touch with and knowledgeable about the court system. Andi is a member of a longstanding Reflective Mediation Practice Group, and she and the other group members have enjoyed teaching reflective mediation practice throughout the United States and in South Africa. Andi also serves on the board of For the Love of Travis, which is a non-profit focused on suicide prevention and depression research with a focus on adolescents.
Steven Serrano, Esq. |
Attorney, Mediator
Arizona Mediation Institute
Steven M. Serrano is a Shareholder at Law Office of Steven M. Serrano, PLLC. in Phoenix, Arizona, where he practices exclusively in the area of family law. Steven received his Bachelor of Arts Degree and Juris Doctorate Degree, from Arizona State University in 1992. Steven is a member of the American and Arizona Bar Associations (and the Family Law Section of the Arizona Bar Association). Steven has been an active member of the State Bar of Arizona Executive Council Family Law Section from 1999-2011. Steven has chaired programs, including the Arizona State Bar Conventions, on a variety of family law topics over the years. Seminar topics include ethics, spousal maintenance, settlement documents, uniform acts, custody, sexual abuse allegations in the custody context, jurisdiction, business valuation, and taxes in divorce.
Mr. Serrano joined Arizona Mediation Institute in December 2018. Mr. Serrano focuses on a future-focused, positive settlement approach during mediation, which has resulted in countless successful settlements for family law matters mediated.
Kristyn Carmichael, Esq., CDFA |
Training Director, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Kristyn Carmichael is a licensed Arizona attorney and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA). Beginning in 2021, Kristyn took on the role of Training Director at the Lodestar Center for Dispute Resolution at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Her focus is to create and implement trainings to spread awareness of dispute resolution skills, such as negotiation, mediation, communication skills, and advocacy.
Outside of the law school, she practices in her own firms, The Couples Solutions Center and Ms. Confinance (confidence + finances). She assists her clients as a professional mediator and CDFA for divorce and premarital cases, helping clients find mutual solutions outside of the court.
Price:
General - $175
ASU Law Alumni - $150
ASU Student Pricing - $75
For more on the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center, click here.