Arbitration Advocacy Skills: Essentials for Lawyers
EL505 $1495
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(Participants must attend all three days to receive CLE credits).
9:00 am-4:30 pm
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This intensive three-day training program is designed for labor and employment attorneys whose practice involves advocacy in arbitration. This course provides training on the key elements for a successful arbitration presentation. It will give you the opportunity to prepare and present your case while receiving critical feedback and suggestions to improve your advocacy skills.
Arbitration Fundamentals
- Utilizing arbitration tribunals
- Arbitration practice, scheduling and pre-hearing procedures
- Assessing the likely outcomes of arbitrations
- Litigate or settle?
- Conducting the hearing, framing the issue, lining up
witnesses, records and evidence - Evidentiary issues
- Current "hot topics" in labor arbitration
Advocacy Skills
- A view from the arbitrator: What makes a great advocate?
- Developing strategies
- Witness examination and credibility
- Dealing with the flawed witness
- Burden of proof
- Direct and cross examination
- Opening and closing statements
- Submission of post-hearing briefs in lieu of closing statements
Ethical Considerations
Unique Format: During the first two consecutive days, participants will learn the techniques essential to a successful presentation and will have extensive opportunities to practice arbitration advocacy skills in the presence of experienced arbitrators and litigators. On the third day, participants will present their cases in a mock arbitration before experienced arbitrators, who will provide extensive feedback on the presentations, issue a "bench decision," and discuss the basis for their opinions.
Instructors
Dennis Campagna, Esq.
Arbitrator
Dennis J. Campagna, Esq., is a Senior Legal Analyst in Cornell ILR’s Labor and Employment Law Program. He develops programs on statutory mandates and their effect on the workplace. A practicing mediator and arbitrator with direct experience in numerous aspects of collective bargaining and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), he is an arbitrator for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York approved to hear labor and employment related matters before the Court.
Martin F. Scheinman, Esq.
Arbitrator
Mr. Scheinman has over 25 years of experience as a full time arbitrator in private and public sector disputes. He has arbitrated over 10,000 disputes throughout the United States and served as fact-finder in hundreds of cases in the Eastern United States. His public sector cases include school-related personnel, municipal, county and state employees, health care workers, police, fire and sanitation employees; private sector cases include manufacturing, broadcasting, food services, higher education, rail, air, machinery, pharmaceutical, paper, health care, printing, newspaper, utility industries. He also is the author of Evidence and Proof in Arbitration.
