Are you an attorney with solid experience in negotiation and mediation advocacy?  Would you like to take that experience to a whole new level, so you can:

• Maximize negotiation and mediation's value to both you and your client?
• Learn how to deal with the toughest challenges in negotiation and mediation?
• Hone your skills by exchanging ideas and experiences with your peers of other top negotiators and advocates in mediation?

If the answer to any of the above is yes, then the Negotiation and Mediation Advocacy Breakfast Forum is for you. 

Negotiation and Mediation Advocacy Breakfast Forum is a regular breakfast workshop for discussion, dialogue, and information/experience exchange with attorneys like you – attorneys who have depth in negotiation and mediation advocacy, and want to do everything they can to optimize outcomes.

Mediator/facilitator Paul Fisher will lead a dynamic discussion focused on the most current cases in negotiation and mediation advocacy, the issues you bring to the table.

Additional issues to be covered over time include:

• How to deal with the difficult client and opposing counsel at the mediation.
• Preparing effectively for mediation.
• Briefs: are they beneficial? Worth the effort? Exchanged or confidential?
• Maximizing the benefits of the mediator.
• Joint session: To have or have not; when to avoid, and why.
• Dealing with the really tough issues in mediation.
• The mediator's role: Beyond basics to the exotic.
• Documenting the settlement: From the basics through up to the moment critical; ie. what "magic words" are absolutely necessary to make the settlement agreement enforceable?
• Enabling the mediator to make you look great in front of your client.

* If you are interested in attending a Negotiation and Mediation Advocacy Breakfast Forum and the W. L. A. location is geographically challenging, contact Paul. If there are sufficient interested qualified persons in your community a Negotiation and Mediation Advocacy Breakfast Forum can be scheduled in your community.

Times:
Breakfast/Schmoozing: 7:00 am - 7:30 am
Workshop: 7:30 am - 8:30 am

Space is limited. By invitation only.

CLE: Paul Fisher is a California State Bar CLE provider and certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California for 1 hour CLE credit, including .5 hour Ethics.

Cost: breakfast is free. Parking available on Purdue adjacent to the building. Parking in the building at nominal charge.

In a contested estate matter emotions can run incredibly high. Families leave the probate/estates litigation process exhausted and embittered. These feelings of client unhappiness may be exacerbated for some parties who are angry and resentful at their attorney who has charged significant fees. A contested estate matter is financially expensive, emotionally draining and the goals of the testator may have been frustrated in the process. Some family relationships may be destroyed. Perhaps there is a better way to provide estate planning clients more certainty about the future of their estates, and to provide families with peace and security for the future. Perhaps for clients in contested estate matters there are means to manage these conflicts in a less financially draining and emotionally destructive manner. When estate claims are resolved sooner, families will have spent fewer financial and emotional resources on the conflict. Managing estate conflict - both existing and potential conflicts - presents the possibility to deliver much more financial and emotional value to clients, provide higher client satisfaction, and higher personal and economic satisfaction to the practitioner.

This workshop focuses on early identification and management of conflict that could arise out of a testator's estate planning and which could lead to litigation. The workshop also explores and brainstorms means of managing conflict in estate litigation. It is an opportunity for participants to be at the genesis of a change in the culture of how conflicts are resolved in probate and estates litigation. This workshop is highly participatory.

"Great discussion and very thought provoking." "Very interesting and a form of validation for some of my own practices." "A once in a life time opportunity." "High energy . . . wonderful . . . thank you so much." "Very informative and thought provoking." "Wonderful workshop. The feedback from members was overwhelmingly positive."

Paul Fisher certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California.

This workshop is provided upon request to bar associations, law firms, estate planning councils and other groups and organizations. For more information contact Paul Fisher at 310-235-2480, or paul@fishermediation.com.

Training program custom designed for law firms and bar associations. Specific topics for training discussion are selected from a broad list of mediation advocacy and negotiation issues. The objective is for the training to meet the specific needs and interests of the training group. “Selected Issues” means you select the issues in consultation with Paul Fisher. Lecture, discussion, analysis.

Why do mediations impasse? How can impasse be avoided? What are the critical elements for a successful mediation? The objective is for the training to meet the needs and interests of the training group in consultation with Paul Fisher. Lecture, discussion, analysis.

Theory is experienced during role play using hypothetical problems. Very fast paced.

Available only at Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution

Prepares law students for the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition. Available only at Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution