ADR Continuing Legal Education in Kansas and Missouri

Taking Dispute Resolution to the Next Level: A Litigator’s/Mediator’s Guide to Expanding Settlement Opportunities offers  6.5 hours of CLE credit, including 1.0 hour of Ethics in Kansas & Missouri, Friday, November 9, 2018, at the Robert L. Gernon Law Center, Topeka.

The schedule:

8:30 a.m.         Check-In & Registration

9:00 a.m.        The Intersection of Insurance and Successful Settlement
                        Robert Sullivan, Attorney at Law, Overland Park
                        John Cusick, Barnes Law Firm LLC, Kansas City, MO
                        Mark Meyer, American Family Insurance Co., Lee's Summit, MO
                        Jeff Cox, Cox Law Office LLC, Raymore, MO

9:50 a.m.         Family Law: Shared Parenting Plans Under the New Tax Code; Drafting Property Settlement Agreement Provisions 
                        Dealing with Retirement Assets
                        Aline Barrett, Kansas Mediation Concepts, Topeka
                        Adina F. Morse, Curtis G. Barnhill PA, Lawrence
                        

10:40 a.m.       Break

10:55 a.m.       Employment Law Settlement Agreements: Covering All of the Bases
                        Jon E. Newman, Hite Fanning & Honeyman LLP, Wichita
                  

11:45 a.m.       Lunch (provided)

12:30 p.m.      Probate ADR Opportunities and Issues
                        Cathleen A. Gulledge, Law Office of Cathleen Gulledge LLC, Wichita
                         
1:20 p.m.        Healthcare ADR Issues and Opportunities
                        Frankie J. Forbes, Forbes Law Group LLC, Overland Park
                        Brian J. Niceswanger, Evans & Dixon LLC, Overland Park
                        Randy J. Troutt, Hite Fanning & Honeyman LLP, Wichita

2:10 p.m.        Break

2:25 p.m.        Swimming with the Sharks: Negotiation Ethics for Guppies
                        Larry R. Rute, Associate in Dispute Resolution LLC, Topeka
                        

3:15 p.m.        Adjourned

ADR Ethics

USC Gould School of Law is hosting its First Annual ADR Symposium on April 15, 2016. The topic is "ADR Ethics"

Candor in Negotiation, Mediation, and Arbitration

Michael Dallaire's article begins: "Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is here to stay.  The Model Rules of Professional Conduct (Model Rules) must acknowledge that fact.  Several scholars have posited the lofty goal of creating an entirely separate code of ethics for ADR or at least individual processes.  But the process of ADR-specific rules must begin within the framework of the existing Model Rules.  One of the first steps in that direction should be to clearly define the level of candor required of an attorney-advocate in each major ADR forum.  An attorney’s duty to tell the truth, or his ability to deceive, should not be governed by a static standard when operating across a range of informal, nonbinding, participant-controlled settings like unassisted negotiation and mediation.  The Model Rules of Professional Conduct should include separate and distinct duties of candor for each major ADR forum, formulating each based on the unique characteristics of an individual forum.  The reformulated rules should focus on two primary factors in setting the requisite level of candor for a particular forum: (1) the stage in the dispute resolution process in which the particular forum is normally used, and (2) the degree to which a third-party neutral affects settlement."