Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching

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Skill

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NextGen Bar

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Resources

Dispute resolution legal educators have a long tradition of sharing teaching resources and DRI has facilitated this sharing by collecting and publishing these resources in a word document with appendices. After a decade of collecting information in this way, we are pleased to upgrade the collection of these resources into a searchable database.

In this database you will find experiential activities, simulations, videos, assignments, and podcasts. You will be able to search this database in a variety of ways, based on “subject matter,” “skill,” etc. We also have added a search facet for “NextGen” which we anticipate will continue to grow with resources as we all learn more about the Next Gen Bar Exam and how best to prepare our students.

We are in the process of adding a portal for submitting additional resources you wish to share. Note that all submissions will be offered free of charge for academic use.

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All Bad News

All the simulations in this folder are aimed at the same thing: delivering bad news to clients without backlash! The major difference is the practice context in which they sit: intellectual property, personal injury, employment, contract, real estate development, or appellate. Most but not all reference pending litigation. In many instances, the “bad news” is […]

Bio-Con v. Microtex - Mediation and Arbitration

This a business contract and fraud dispute, arising from an unconsummated joint venture between Bio-Con, Inc. and Microtex, Inc. The scenario can be used as an arbitration, mediation or negotiation simulation. Bio-Con filed a demand for arbitration against Microtex asserting claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty (stealing the business opportunity with MegaMed), […]

Bio-Con v. Microtex - Negotiation and Arbitration

Case of Dana and Jan Putnam

This is a multi-stage simulation of a negotiation of a simple probate dispute. Each instructor is likely to adapt the simulation differently, not necessarily using all the stages or assignments provided – and possibly adding new ones. This is written as a negotiation course but can be modified to add a role for mediators.The case […]

Bagger v. Delishco

This is a contract dispute between a family-owned bag company – Bagger – and a multi-national food company – Delishco. This simulation imagines what an arbitration of Bagger v. Delishco might look like. There are witness statements and exhibits.This was done as a CLE and there are all of the pieces to do so or […]

Heartaches: Mediation

This simulation draws from a documentary describing the tragic consequences of substandard care – surgeons inexperienced and unskilled in Arterial Switch Surgery, inadequate equipment, and shoddy procedures for the care of infants with heart defects – in a hospital in northern England, operated by its National Health Service. There is a client counseling phase to […]

Heartaches: Interviewing and Counseling

BoxAll Battles

This is a family and family business dispute. The Nelsons are a wealthy family, due to the success of BoxAll, Inc., the company founded 50 years ago by the patriarch, Fred Nelson, who passed away 5 years ago. He was survived by his old spouse and two adult children, Keith and Dianne, all beneficiaries of […]

Upscale Accusations

This simulation has 2 parts. The first part is the initial lawyer-client interview exercise, involving age discrimination claims by a former employee against her long-time employer, with whom she helped set up the company. The exercise documents also ask the lawyer to explain attorney-client confidentiality and to discuss legal fees. The second part supplies additional […]

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Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching

Dispute Resolution Insitute at Mitchell Hamline School of law