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Duration: 1 hour: prepation; 30 minutes: client meeting; 1 - 2 hours arroney negotiaiton; 1 hour drafting (out of class) by defence counsel; 1 hour review/revisions: plaintiff' counsel (out-of-class); 30 minute client meetings; 1 hour counsel meeting to finalize negotiation

NextGen: No

Teaching Notes: Yes

Skills: ADR | Negotiation

Skill Levels: Advanced

Type of Resources: Simulation

Subjects: ADR | Negotiation

Modality: Both Online and In-Person

Participants: groups of 4 (2 lawyers and 2 clients)

Civil Rights Settlement

Jim Hilbert

This is an intermediate-level dispute resolution scenario focused on negotiating and drafting a settlement agreement of a discrimination claim. Students play the roles of the lawyers for each side. Instructors and adjunct faculty have typically played the clients (although with support students could play those roles, too). The scenario is designed for use over three or more class sessions (total of 4-5 hours of in-class time and approximately 2 – 3 hours of out-of-class time).

Civil Rights Settlement: Overview (PDF)

Civil Rights Settlement: Instructor Notes and Background (PDF)

Civil Rights Settlement: Confidential Packet for Salvador Neruda (Plaintiff) (PDF)

Civil Rights Settlement: Confidential Packet for Terry Burns (Defendant Heritage Homes) (PDF)

Civil Rights Settlement: Packet for Defendants’ Lawyers (PDF)

Civil Rights Settlement: Packet for Plaintiff’s Lawyers (PDF)

Civil Rights Settlement

Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching

Dispute Resolution Insitute at Mitchell Hamline School of law