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Negotiations Competition
The American Bar Association Law Student Division's Negotiation Competition promotes greater interest among law students in legal negotiation and provides a means for them to practice and improve their negotiating skills. The competition simulates legal negotiations in which law students, acting as lawyers, negotiate a series of legal problems.
Northwestern Law has participated in the competition for several years and won the regional championships in 2002-03 and 2003-04. Interested students can try out for the team during the fall semester. Lynn Cohn, Stephanie Horten, and Sheila Maloney coach the team.
Dispute Resolution Resource Center
The Program on Negotiation and Mediation collaborates with the Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC) on a variety of negotiations courses and projects, including the Negotiation and Teamwork Teaching Workshop Conference, the Negotiations Teaching Certificate Program, and DRRC Negotiation, Teamwork, and Decision Making Exercises and teaching materials library. Northwestern University faculty from the Weinberg College of Arts and Science, the Kellogg School of Management, and the School of Law founded the DRRC in 1986 to be a nationally recognized center for research on dispute resolution and negotiation and to provide continuing education programs targeted at exposing the legal and management worlds to the latest developments in dispute resolution and negotiation.
Negotiation and Teamwork Teaching Workshop Conference
The Program on Negotiation and Mediation partners bi-annually with the Kellogg Team and Group Center and the Dispute Resolution Research Center for a Negotiation and Teamwork Teaching workshop. The second Teaching Workshop in Fall 2004 featured faculty from Northwestern's law and business schools. Sessions focused on negotiation deal making, negotiation disputing, negotiation coalitions, negotiation multiparty, decision making games, and teamwork. Instructors stressed learning takeaways and how to maximize the learning experience for the students. The purpose of the workshop was to share teaching exercises and techniques with faculty from other schools. The third conference will be held at Northwestern Law in September 2006.
Executive Education
Business executives and their mentors have long recognized that success in the executive ranks requires broad knowledge, including familiarity with the business or industry, accounting and finance, marketing, sales, operations, and human resource management. Astute observers of modern business enterprises recognize that there is also a need for understanding the law and how to use it to protect and advance the interests of the enterprise.
Northwestern Law's custom programs for non-lawyer executives provide instruction to enable executives to know enough about the law to protect and enhance their reputations as well as their firm's. We help executives anticipate, avoid, and manage problems before they become crises. For more information, contact J. F. (Joe) Hannigan, Director of Executive Education, Northwestern University School of Law; Associate Director, Executive Education Kellogg School of Management, at (312) 503-4754 or by e-mail.
Lawyer as Problem Solver
This program for first-year and LLM Northwestern Law students highlights problem-solving skills with an emphasis on group learning. The curriculum uses hands-on exercises to teach oral and written communication, interviewing, integrative negotiation, dispute resolution, ethics, creativity, coalition-building, decision-making, teamwork and leadership skills.
