13th Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference April 29-30

The Washington Law School Foundation, Dispute Resolution Section of the Washington Bar Association, the Dispute Resolution Section of the King County Bar Association, the Washington Mediation Association, and Resolution Washington are pleased to announce that “Creative Conflict Management,” the 13th Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference, will take place on April 29-30, 2005 in William H. Gates Hall, the new home of the University of Washington School of Law.

The conference offers an extensive program with over 35 presentations designed for attorneys and ADR practitioners representing clients in dispute resolution.

Conference presenters on Friday, April 29, include Gary Friedman, Mediation Law Offices, Mill Valley, who will discuss Mediation as Right Livelihood: Do We Really Have the Moral High Ground?

David Hoffman, Boston Law Collaborative, will participate in two Friday sessions, Bringing Peace into the Room and Practicing Collaborative Law.

Cathy Costantino, Georgetown University Law School and Columbia University, will focus on Manipulation and Mediation , which offers 1.25 Ethics CLE Credits. On Saturday, April 30, Ms. Costantino will present Practical Implications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Also on Saturday, Lee Jay Berman, The Mediation Alliance, Inc., Los Angeles and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Malibu, will investigate The Soft Underbelly: How to Get to the Human Side of Parties in Mediation.

Professor Jim Stott, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Malibu, will examine Conflict Management in the Workplace: The Good, Bad and Very Ugly.

Dana Curtis, mediator and Lecturer in Law, Stanford University, will provide a Saturday workshop about Beginning the Beginning: The Art of Convening Mediation.

The conference agenda offers an additional range of topics including workplace conflict resolution, collaborative law and mediation, a comparison of the Code of Ethics of mediation, facilitation and public participation (this Saturday session offers 2.0 Ethics CLE Credits), compassionate listening, accurately equating settlement agreements with promises, success through forgiveness, effective team-building, mediator selection, applied theatre tools for mediation, and more!