Course Details

Conflict Management in Legal Practice

"The goals of this course are to help students learn to better manage conflict in their professional and personal lives and, as a result, provide better service to their clients and experience more satisfaction. Specifically, students will learn to 1. Manage external conflict (between people), through four negotiation approaches and models. 2. Manage focus, awareness, stress, and emotions, through mindfulness, a way of paying attention that can improve performance and satisfaction. 3. Manage internal conflict (within a person), through internal family systems (IFS), a psychological model of the mind that includes internal Subpersonalities"" or ""Parts"" that interact as a system. 4. Integrate negotiation, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems. 5. Write better."

Catalog Number: LITARB 611
Practice Areas: Civil Lit. and Dispute Resolution,  Legal Skills Development

Course History

Fall 2019
Title: Conflict Mgmt in Lgl Practice
Faculty: Riskin, Leonard L. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 3.0
Capacity: 25     Actual: 20

Fall 2018
Title: Conflict Mgmt in Lgl Practice
Faculty: Riskin, Leonard L. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 3.0
Capacity: 25     Actual: 24

Fall 2017
Title: Conflict Management in Legal Practice
Faculty: Riskin, Leonard L. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 3.0
Capacity: 25     Actual: 15

Fall 2016
Title: Conflict Management in Legal Practice
Faculty: Riskin, Leonard L. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 3.0
Capacity: 25     Actual: 14