Mar 31/Cleveland, OH - What Makes a Great Legal Negotiator?

Lawyers negotiate repeatedly, but few have thought about the factors that are possessed by proficient negotiators. Over the past thirty years, I have tried to determine the factors that contribute to negotiating success. I have found no statistically significant differences among students in my Legal Negotiating classes based upon race, sex, or nationality. I have found no correlation between student GPAs or emotional intelligence and negotiation results.
Negotiator styles affect bargaining interactions. Individuals who use a hybrid Competitive/Problem- Solving approach designed to generate efficient agreements that maximize the joint returns achieved, but which enables such persons to claim a greater share of the joint surplus ("WIN-win" negotiators), do better than purely cooperative or competitive bargainers. Adept negotiators are thoroughly prepared, since they appreciate the fact that "knowledge is power." They calculate their own bottom lines, and accurately estimate the bottom lines of their opponents. They establish elevated, but rational, aspirations, and prepare opening positions that favor their own sides. They develop confidence in their own positions which undermines the confidence of less prepared adversaries. They use the Preliminary Stage of their interactions to establish rapport with opponents and positive negotiating environments. They have excellent communication skills, and they are patient and persevering bargainers. They are also ethical individuals who puff and embellish, but never misrepresent material information.

Title:
"What Makes a Great Legal Negotiator?"
Mar 31, 2011 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=247 
Location:

Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Blvd.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106

CLE Credit:
1.0 of CLE credit available.


Sponsor:Elmer F. & Ellen Laws Burwig Lecture - CISCDR 5th Anniversary Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture - presented by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution


Speaker Information:
Charles B. Craver is the Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School where he regularly teaches a course on Legal Negotiating. Over the past thirty years, Professor Craver has made presentations on Effective Legal Negotiation and on Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures to over 85,000 individuals throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Austria, England, Turkey, and the People’s Republic of China. He was formerly associated with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where he specialized in employment and litigation practice. Professor Craver is a member of the American Law Institute, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the American Arbitration Association, the National Academy of Arbitrators, and the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law. He was previously affiliated with the Lawyers Mediation Service. He has won teaching awards at three different law schools.

Open to the public at no cost.
1.0 hour CLE credit will be available to lawyers who attend.
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