Cleveland-Marshall Mediation Class: May 2018

WRITING ASSIGMENT

Due prior to the beginning of the Third Class: Prepare a personalized Mediator Opening Statement discussing, among other things, your qualifications to be a mediator. The Statement should be approximately 2 to 4 pages, that you could use in future mediations.  With this include your actual current job, if any, your current year in law schoool, your upcoming employment for the summer, if any and a current copy of your resume.  Both the statement and resume should be emailed to both professors at the following email addresses:  RORourke@MeyersRoman.com and MYoung@MeyersRoman.com

First Class
Overview:  Video: What is Mediation; Video: What are the Benefits of Mediation; Video: ABA Mediation Video Center-Examples of Mediations; Video: What Qualities Make a "Good Mediator?"
The Mediation Process: Mediation: 10 Rules for Success; How Does the Mediation Process Work?; How to Manage and Mediate Workplace Disputes USAF (Optional)

Second Class
Uniform Mediation Act: Uniform Mediation Act; Ohio Supreme Court Ohio Supreme Court Case Mediation

Mediator Opening Statements:

Mediator Script;  Mediator Script II;  Mediator's Model Opening Statement: Video: Meet Your Mediator:

Third Class
Mediator Skills/Negotiation: Video; Mediation Skills that Lawyers Should be Taught; Video: Hardball Negotiating Tactics: Why They Work, How They Fail so Badly; Video: How to Get People to Agree; Video: Negotiating Skills: Dealing with Difficult Issues; Video: Secrets of Negotiation - Roger Dawson; Video-Win/Win Negotiating Tools; Video-Three Factors in Negotiating (Win-Win?)  Video: William Ury; Negotiating Sustainable Agreements;  Video: Win/Win or I Walk Test for Spotting the Story



BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement): BATNA Explained

Fourth Class
AAA Commercial Rules (Arbitration and Mediation): AAA Arbitration and Mediation Rules

ABA Information: American Bar Association Resolution on Mediation & Unauthorized Practice of Law; Americann Bar Association: Lawyer's Obligation for Truthfulness in Mediation; ABA Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators August 2005; ABA Model Standards of Practice for Family and Divorce Mediation February 2001

Cuyahoga County Mediation:
Cuyahoga County Foreclosure Mediation; Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Mediation Links  Ohio Supreme Court Foreclosure Mediation

Medina County Mediation:
Video: Interview with Bruce Francis, Medina County Common Pleas Court Mediator.

Local Rules:
Court Mediation, Local Rules
Fifth Class
Mediator Ethics: ABA Section of Dispute Resolution National Clearinghouse for Mediator Ethics Opinions; Mediation Ethics Articles; Mediator Ethics and What Actually Guides Us?

Sixth Class
Wrap-up on Negotiating Tips: Video - Negotiate Like a Dog; Video: How to Negotiate-Herb Cohen: Video: Car Negotiations-Do not get conned by a car salesman:   Video - Stanford: Conducting Effective Negotiations; Video- Secrets of Negotiation: Roger Dawson I; Video - Secrets of Negotiation: Roger Dawson II; Video - Negotiation: Roger Dawson, Ask for More; Video: Negotiation - Roger Dawson, Conflict Resolution; Video-Negotiating with People from Different Cultures-Japanese;  Video-Negotiating with People from Different Cultures-French; Video-Do You Leak Your Negotiating Secrets with Your Body Language?; Video-Negotiating Dos and Don'ts From Master Negotiators; Video-6 Ways, Plus 1 More to Break Negotiation Deadlock