Thursday, November 20th
Our special guest this week, Prof Ellen Waldman VP of Advocacy and Educational Outreach, International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution and Jeff Kichaven will Present on:
ABA Ethics Opinion 518: Dawn of a Golden Age for Mediation?
ABA Ethics Opinion 518, issued October 15, sets forth ethical duties for lawyers as mediators. It bars misleading statements about the strength or weakness of a party’s case; prohibits false representations of a party’s top dollar or bottom line; and forbids statements that a proposed settlement is in a party’s best interest, among other things.
Wow, what just happened? Is the ABA cleaning up grossly unethical conduct in which some mediators engage? Or has the ABA just prohibited mediators from using some of their most effective tools for settlement? Or both?
In this program, Prof. Ellen Waldman, a leading expert on mediator ethics, and Jeff Kichaven will engage in dialogue about whether this is the dawn of a golden age for mediators and the lawyers and clients with whom we work, or cause for panic or worse.
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Our presenters:
Vice President of Advocacy and Educational Outreach at the Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Responsible for initiatives involving dispute prevention, diversity in the professional neutral field, mediation and education. Conflict resolution expert with both practical and academic experience. Decades in the classroom as full-time tenured law professor, founder and director of successful court-based mediation clinic. Administrative and thought leadership functions included mediation program director and bioethics consultant to major hospital ethics committees. Experienced trainer in dispute resolution and bioethics topics; Presented worldwide, authored over 100 articles, including first book-length treatment of mediation ethics.
Offered by Will Work For Food, founded by Natalie Armstrong-Motin (www.HowToMarketMyMediationPractice.com, moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com), LatAM moderator, Michael Schwimmer (www.SchwimmerMediation.com and Program Coordinator, David Shraga (www.DavidShraga.com).
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun, and raise money for food banks.