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. We are pleased to provide the collection of these resources in a searchable database.

In this database you will find experiential activities, simulations, videos, assignments, lesson plans, teaching tools, and podcasts. All items in the database are offered free of charge for academic use.

You may 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. To get started, choose at least one search option and select a filter. You will see the number of resources that are currently available for each.

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10 Most Recent Additions

Mediation Practice Points: A Compilation of Attorney Quotes

This is a compilation of responses from students interviews with lawyers about a recent mediation they were involved in. The lawyers discussed important mediation issues such as when to mediate, how to select a mediator, pre-mediation memoranda, preparing the client, preparing the case, preferred format (joint session versus caucus), mediator and lawyer strategies, drafting the […]

Mediation: Request for Mediator to "Reiterate the Negotiations"

This lesson plan includes a video and teaching material based on a Mediator Ethics Advisory Opinion. A mediator conducted a successful family law mediation that ended with a signed settlement agreement. Four months later, the attorney for one party asked the mediator to meet with them and “reiterate” what had happened during the negotiation, hoping […]

Mediation: Secret Recording of Mediation by a Participant

This lesson plan includes a video and teaching material based on a Mediator Ethics Advisory Opinion. During a Zoom mediation, one party disclosed in private session that they had recorded the joint session (audio and video) without prior consent of the mediator or other participants. Florida law generally requires consent from all participants to record […]

Mediation Advocacy: Duty to Disclose

This lesson plan includes a video and teaching notes for a lesson on attorney ethics in the context of negotiation and mediation. This is an employment discrimination claim involving sexual harassment. The claimant is seeking back wages, medical expenses, and future earnings. After an initial unsuccessful mediation, the parties agree to reconvene after receiving more […]

Negotiation and Mediation Communication Behaviors

Ask students to pair up and negotiate going out to dinner where one person wants to eat Chinese food and the other does not. After they negotiate, show students the communication behaviors pdf and ask them to identify which behaviors they used. Part II: Ask each student to choose one “new” behavior and re-do the […]

Identifying and Addressing Discriminatory Guidance in Dispute Resolution Practice Systems

This exercise addresses ethical lawyering, inclusive practice, communication strategy and dispute resolution literacy using Resolution Practice Systems. The lesson plan was deigned by AI. The learning objectives include: Understanding what the RPS Negotiation and Mediation Coach is, how it was created, and how it differs from standard AI tools; analyzing written dispute resolution guidance using […]

Applying the Seven Mind Shifts in Dispute Resolution

Objective of this Lesson Plan is to help law students develop practical skills in dispute resolution by applying the seven mind shifts discussed in Collaborating Instead of Canceling to real-world conflict scenarios. Alternatives Article: Collaborating Instead of Canceling: Seven ‘Mind Shifts’ for Dispute Resolvers (PDF) Lesson Plan and Exercise: Collaborating Instead of Canceling Applying the […]

Guidance for Physically Safe Conflict Resolution Bias Resistant Approach

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) created Guidance of Safety which has been updated to incorporate bias-resistant elements that also address bias towards participants with Mental Health issues.Guidance and powerpoint for use in a classroom provided. Guidance for Physically Safe Conflict Resolution: A Bias-Resistant Approach (PDF) ACR Guidance on Safety: Questions for Engagement (PowerPoint)

Creating Information for Self-Representing Litigants (SRLs) re: ODR

This exercise/simulation would work particularly well for students in a mediation course, mediation clinic, or a course that includes significant discussion of ODR. It involves assigning the students (individually or in groups) to develop an information packet for their local court to help prepare litigants to participate in a mediation or other dispute resolution procedure. […]

Restorative Justice Initiative Videos

A variety of videos on restorative justice topics produced by the Restorative Justice Initiative at Marquette University Law School. Videos available on the Andrew Center for Restorative Justice website.

Resources

10 Most Recent Additions

Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills Teaching

Dispute Resolution Insitute at Mitchell Hamline School of law