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Sharpen your Advocacy Skills While Networking in San Francisco April 7-10!



Title: ABA Section of Dispute Resolution 12th Annual Spring Conference San Francisco, CA April 8-10, 2010
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The Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference is in San Francisco next month.  The Section has scheduled more than 100 CLE programs, including sixteen programs designed to enhance the skills of advocates in dispute resolution processes.  Register today and join fellow legal and dispute resolution professionals from across the country and around the world for this unique educational and networking event.

Sessions in the Advocacy Track include:

  • Clientology: The Applied Science of Private Sit-Down Speaking with Clients
  • A New Level of Dialogue Between Litigators and Mediators:  A Conversation with Some of San Francisco's Finest Mediation Advocates
  • Mediation Advocacy: Get the Biggest Bang for Your Client’s Buck
  • Interest Arbitration - Coming to an Employer Near You...
  • Whether, When and How Representation in Mediation Matters
  • Lawyers in Asian Arbitration: A Comparative Look at Techniques, Approaches and Trends in Major Jurisdictions
  • Preparing The Battlefield: How Effective Use of the First Case Management Conference Can Work For Advocates, Arbitrators, Clients and Providers
  • Forgiveness:  The Ultimate Tool of Conflict Resolution
  • Advocacy in International Commercial Arbitration:  What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You (And Your Client)
  • The Electronic Information Juggernaut: Taking Aim at ADR
  • The Language of Mediating Construction and Commercial Disputes: What the Parties Tell Each Other, What the Parties Tell  the Mediator, What the Mediator Tells the Parties-- and What Everybody Thinks They Heard
  • Will Insurance Be There When You Need to Settle?  Top Ten Hints for Careful ADR Preparation
  • Resurrecting The Stalled Mediation -- Don’t Let The Mediator or Advocate Blow Your Settlement
  • Party Participation in Mediation: The Desire to be Heard, Not Just Seen
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Native American Approach
  • How to Help Clients Make Better Decisions Through Psychological Tools and Systematic Risk Analysis

Register Now for the Spring Conference!  Advanced Registration Ends on April 1st.

Register Online - click here
View/Print the Conference Brochure - click here (PDF)
Visit the Conference Website - click here

Hotel Information
Hyatt Regency San Francisco – Embarcadero
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-788-1234 l 800-233-1234

The conference room rate is $215. Rooms must be reserved by March 29, 2010 to secure the discounted rate.
To make reservations, attendees may call 1-888-421-1442 and refer to the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution 2010 Annual Conference or Book Online Now.

Travel Information
The closest airport is the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Visit the Hotel & Travel page of the conference website for discount codes for select airlines and rental car companies.

REGISTER NOW

For more information about the Section of Dispute Resolution and our upcoming programs and events visit: http://www.abanet.org/dispute

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors
College of Commercial Arbitrators, JAMS - The Resolution Experts

Platinum Sponsor

American Arbitration Association

Gold Sponsors
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, North American Branch, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University

Silver Sponsors
DLA Piper LLP, Judicate West, Marquette University Law School, Miller Canfield LLP, South Texas College of Law, The Holmes Law Firm,
University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Patron Sponsors

ADR Services, Inc., Briskman & Binion, P.C., John R. Phillips, Husch Blackwell Sanders, Joiner Mediations, Lightfoot Franklin & White, LLC, Mills Meyers Swartling, Richard Chernick, JAMS, R. Wayne Thorpe, JAMS, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC

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