POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
JANUARY 27, 2010 | 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Preparing Your File for Mediation and Settlement: Strategies, Tips and Best Practices!
Workshop Leaders
Patrick Mazurek (Plaintiff)
Principal
Patrick Mazurek Barristers
Jennifer Griffiths (Defence)
Partner
Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP
You’ve critically analyzed and understood the recent case law on mediation and settlement. You’ve gained expert strategies on how to prepare for and delve into mediation and settlement. NOW it’s time to put what you’ve learned to use! During this hands-on workshop, you will put these new skills to use by working through an interactive case study which will look at the preparation of a file for mediation and settlement purposes, from both a plaintiff and defence perspective. This intensive workshop session will lead you through the issues and challenges of preparing for mediation and settlement. It will allow you a chance to improve and practice drafting an effective mediation brief as well as a comprehensive and proper settlement offer that will solidify your ability to create mutually acceptable settlements.
Skills you will take back to your office:
- Strategic preparation techniques that can be utilized in preparing all your files for mediation and settlement: a step-by-step guide
- Improved mediation brief: drafting strategies, including legal writing tips and techniques
- A full grasp of the effective structuring of your settlement to facilitate negotiated resolutions
- Comprehensive drafting strategies for your settlement offer: tips and techniques
- Take-away suggestions on effectively and persuasively advancing your position in writing
- The ability to properly assess what to include/exclude in your settlement offer
- An understanding of how to appropriately prepare your client for mediation and settlement: the give and take
Don’t miss out on these invaluable expert techniques that will give you the leading edge on creating the very best settlement situations and the skilled ability to achieve win win situations!
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