Resources > Standstill Agreement: Steps to Resolving a Legal Dispute

Duration: 4 hours: in-class (over 2 class sessions) plus 2 hours out-of-class and Debrief

NextGen: Yes

Teaching Notes: Yes

Skills: ADR | Client Counseling | Communication | Negotiation

Skill Levels: Intermediate

Type of Resources: Simulation

Subjects: Contracts | Doctrinal Subjects

Modality: Both Online and In-Person

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

Standstill Agreement: Steps to Resolving a Legal Dispute

Jim Hilbert

This is a complex scenario with multiple parties, including officials from the United States, New Mexico, Mexico and the United Nations. Participants play the roles of the individual officials for each side. There are up to twelve roles, although the simulation can work with as few as six participants (e.g., two each for the United States and New Mexico, and one each for Mexico and the UN. The scenario is designed to use over three or more class sessions.

Standstill Agreement: Overview (PDF)

Standstill Agreement: Instructor Notes & Background (PDF)

Standstill Agreement: Confidential Packet for Ashwin Desai, Esq. (General Counsel for the Defendant SuperStore) (PDF)

Standstill Agreement: Confidential Packet for Plaintiff Helena Yildiz (PDF)

Standstill Agreement: Confidential Packet for Robin Jax, Esq. (Counsel for Plaintiff Helena Yildiz) (PDF)

Standstill Agreement: Confidential Packet for Terry Banks, Esq. (Counsel for Defendant SuperStore) (PDF)

Standstill Agreement: Steps to Resolving a Legal Dispute

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