The Effective and Timely Use of ADR

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The Effective and Timely Use of ADR
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• ADR Professional Skills 1.5 hour CLE/CPD
  seminar 2010 50.00 GST

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• This ADR and Professional Skills (Rule 6.1)
  seminar by Christopher Whitelaw
  (Commercial Disputes Management Centre) was given
  for CLE/CPD purposes.

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About this Seminar

• Title                               The
  Effective and Timely Use of ADR Strategies to
  Assist the Just, Quick and Cheap Disposal of
  ProceedingsDate                               2
  010Length                           1.5
  hoursLevel                             
  AdvancedPapers                           Paper
  available

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Contents Summary

• In this seminar, Christopher Whitelaw discusses
  the need for legal practitioners to rethink their
  attitude to, and use of, ADR. He addresses
  common legal practitioner objections such as

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•          its a waste of time and money
•          its against commercial interests
•          the client does not want it
•          proposing ADR makes us look weak and
  desperate
•          a lawyer who proposes ADR has an
  ulterior motive

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•          the parties hate each other so it
  cannot work
•          the law/facts/issues are too complex
•          the mediator lacks sufficient skill to
  make it work
•          the client will be pressured into
  making a bad decision.  

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• He then covers the lawyers duty to advise the
  client of all available options and discusses
  four ADR processes

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•          facilitative
•          advisory
•          determinative and
•          the Hybrid Model,
• and presents some case studies.

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About the Presenter

• Christopher Whitelaw was admitted as a solicitor
  in NSW in 1981 and called to the NSW Bar in
  1992.  He studied law at the Australian National
  University and obtained his Masters degree in law
  from the University of Technology in 2000.  He
  became an accredited Mediator in 2001 and was
  accredited by LEADR under the new national
  accreditation scheme in 2008.

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• Chris is passionate about alternative dispute
  resolution, as you can see if you visit his ADR
  website at www.chriswhitelaw.com.au and his blog
  at www.australiandisputeresolver.com.au.

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• Chris regularly lectures in the field of
  alternative dispute resolution and has written a
  number of papers that can be downloaded free from
  his website.Chris has been the NSW Bars
  representative on the Access to Justice Committee
  of the Law Council of Australia.

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• For more information, visit us

http//www.icle.com.au/