Thursday, July 24th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Our special guest this week, David Hoffman, Founder, Boston Law Collaborative, LLC and John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School will Present on:
The Art of Impasse-Breaking in Mediation
Mediators use a wide variety of tools to break impasses, ranging from reality testing and risk analysis to range bargaining and double-blind mediator's proposals. As a long-time mediator who teaches mediation to law students and trains mediators for the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, David Hoffman has collected a toolbox full of techniques, which he will share in this presentation. (David's ideas on impasse-breaking will also be published by the ABA later this year in a book with the same title as this presentation.) Please join us and share your tools too.
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Our presenter:
David A. Hoffman is the John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches three courses: Mediation; Diversity and Dispute Resolution; and Legal Profession: Collaborative Law. David is also an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and founding member of Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, where he handles cases involving family, business, employment, and other disputes. He has mediated/arbitrated approximately 2,000 cases since 1991 and he’s still at it. Prior to founding Boston Law Collaborative in 2003, David was a litigation partner at the Boston firm Hill & Barlow, where he practiced for 17 years.
He is past-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and from the Academy of Professional Family Mediators. David has published three books (including “Bringing Peace into the Room,” with co-editor Daniel Bowling) and more than 100 articles and book chapters on law and dispute resolution. David earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton, a master’s degree in American Studies from Cornell, and his law degree from Harvard, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a research assistant for Prof. Laurence Tribe.
He served as a law clerk for Hon. Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. David lives in a cohousing community in Acton, Massachusetts with his wife, Leslie Warner, who is a career coach. They have five adult children, an adolescent cat, and a rescued golden retriever from a shelter in Serbia. His fun fact is that in the year 2000, he hiked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia with his then-19-year-old son, living out of a backpack for five-and-a-half months, and yes – they did encounter bears! More info about David’s background, publications, and current work can be found here: https://blc.law/team/david-hoffman/. David can be reached at dhoffman@blc.law.
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) and Program Coordinator, David Shraga
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun, and raise money for food banks.