Category: Practical Tech for Mediators

Live Online Tech Course for Mediators and Arbitrators [CIJT LIVE]

October 6, 2014 Administrator Leave a comment Practical Tech for Mediators

CIJT is hosting Practical Technology Tools for Mediators and Online Dispute Professionals, taught by Dan Rainey and Larry Bridgesmith.

Register for a live course covering the best online mediation and client management tools and how to use them in your practice.

This course covers the methodologies and affordable technologies necessary to take a mediation, arbitration or legal practice online, streamlining and improving processes like client intake, client narrative, document review and storage, information sharing, brainstorming, and agreement development, drafting, and execution.

The course is taught by Dan Rainey and Larry Bridgesmith, two of the most recognized online dispute resolution experts in the world, who have used and designed these technologies for over 30 years.

Participants will engage in four real-time lectures and  discussions over a five-week period, share information and ask questions in forums, do independent exercises, and interact personally with both instructors. The course is designed to cover a variety of tested online platforms and tools that can elevate and streamline a legal or dispute resolution practice by taking them online.

 

Learn more about the course here or register.

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Practical Tech Tools

June 13, 2013 Administrator Leave a comment Courses, Practical Tech for Mediators

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Practical Technology Tools is an experiential course designed to introduce affordable and accessible online dispute resolution (ODR) technology to the practice of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

Participants will engage in four synchronous, real-time lectures and discussions over a five-week period, with asynchronous forums, wikis, directional study, and instructor interaction.  Students will learn about numerous tested online platforms and tools that can elevate and streamline their current mediation and dispute
resolution practices.  These technologies will concentrate on the functions of an ADR practice that can most easily be adapted to working digitally, including client intake, client narrative, document review and storage, information sharing, brainstorming, and agreement development, drafting, and execution.

Skills targeted by course:

  • Understanding and Assessing Technology: learn about available tools and which are most appropriate  for ADR and your practice
  • Digital Case Management: assess and apply case management skills to information and communication technologies (ICTs)
  • Third Party Skills: anticipate and prepare for how clients will react to and learn to use new platforms and technology tools
  • Ethical Evaluation: analyze and adapt mediation and legal ethics to the use of ICT
  • Technology Integration: dissecting the practicalities of maintaining a face-to-face dispute resolution practice while integrating technology and/or creating your own virtual ADR practice

About the lead instructor:

Daniel_Rainey_headshot_dropDaniel Rainey is one of the leading ODR educators and practitioners in the world. Working with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he was one of the first instructors to teach a university ODR course, and has since developed graduate level ODR courses for several universities and dispute resolution centers. He has designed ADR and ODR systems for numerous organizations.

He is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, a delegate at the UNCITRAL Working Group III on ODR, a member of the ABA Web-based Interdisciplinary Dispute Resolution Environment Task Force, a member of the ABA President-elect’s Technology Initiative, and co-author and editor of the definitive ODR source book, ODR Theory and Practice.