Neuroscience in Mediation, Negotiation and Decision-Making: Enhancing Your Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Skills
This program is part of the 2025 Professional Development Workshop Series – for more information on the Series, view the brochure here 2025 Professional Development Workshop Series.
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 9:00 am - 10:45 am
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Free for New York City Bar Members & Attorneys from Sponsoring Law Firms*
Attorneys from sponsoring law firms: To ensure your free registration, please register using your law firm email address.
Format: Zoom
Please Note: A final confirmation containing the Zoom link and Access Code to join the event will be sent to ALL registrants the evening before the program.
View the PDW 2025 Brochure
Description:
The program will explore the intersection between neuroscience and fundamental negotiation, mediation and decision-making skills. With lessons from neuroscience, participants will explore the barriers to effective communication and decision-making along with the potential science behind a variety of commonly used dispute resolution skills designed to overcome these barriers. Emphasis will be placed on the impact of opening statements, the framing of issues and techniques for bridging impasse and effective decision-making. Participants will also explore the structure of the brain and how these are associated with specific aspects of ADR and lawyering skills. The program is suited for mediators and other ADR neutrals of all experience levels, as well as all attorneys involved in mediation, arbitration and/or settlement negotiations.
CLE Credit:
New York: 2.0 Skills
New Jersey: 2.0 General
California: 2.0 General
Pennsylvania: 1.5 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
For New York Attorneys: Effective through June 30, 2025 newly admitted attorneys (those admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less) may earn skills credits via the City Bar's live webcasts and live groupcasts. For more information, click here).
For New York Attorneys: This program is a transitional/non-transitional course.
Program Fee:
Free for New York City Bar Members & Attorneys from Sponsoring Law Firms | Non-Members: $75
Speaker:
Daniel M. Weitz, Director, Division of Professional & Court Services, NYS Unified Court System
Daniel M. Weitz is the Director of the Division of Professional and Court Services for the New York State Unified Court System (UCS). Dan oversees the statewide offices of attorney registration, continuing legal education, language access, grants and contracts, records management, legal information, office of record production, trial court support, as well as the parent education and awareness program, guardianship assistance network, the Americans with Disabilities Act Unit and 1-800-Court-NY. From 1998-2016, Dan served as Statewide ADR Coordinator, overseeing a statewide program of court-annexed ADR initiatives involving mediation, arbitration, neutral evaluation, parenting coordination and collaborative law. He also directed the Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program. Dan serves on UCS Advisory Committees on Language Access, ADR, and Access for People with Disabilities. Dan previously served as Co-Counsel to the Board of Governors of the New York State Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Resolution Program. He is a past Chair of the New York City Bar Association ADR Committee and past Co-Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section, Court ADR Committee. Dan has also served on the NYC Bar Domestic Violence Committee and Science and Law Committee. Dan also served on the UCS Matrimonial Commission for which he Co-Chaired the Subcommittee on The Use of Experts. Dan has over twenty-five years of experience as a court administrator and is an international ADR speaker having presented across the United States and beyond including Japan, China, Thailand and South Africa. Dan received his law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to law school he served as an original member of FutureLinks Inc., working in South Africa with youth leaders from all backgrounds to conduct workshops in non-violent social change, conflict resolution, and community development.
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Thank you to our Sponsoring Law Firms:
A&O Shearman · Arnold & Porter LLP · Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP · Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP · Davis & Gilbert LLP · Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP · Debevoise & Plimpton LLP · Dechert LLP · Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP · Jenner & Block LLP · Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · King & Spalding LLP · Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP · Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP · Milbank LLP · New York City Law Department · O’Melveny & Myers LLP · Outten & Golden LLP · Proskauer Rose LLP · Seward & Kissel LLP· Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP · Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP · Thompson Coburn LLP · Venable LLP · Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz · White & Case LLP · Winston & Strawn LLP