Alternative Dispute Resolution Annual Seminar
March 12, 2010
Tennessee Bar Center – Nashville, TN
Program Producer: Stephen L. Shields: Jackson, Shields, Yeiser & Holt
Program Description: This seminar, in addition to providing legal updates, will provide advanced techniques in resolving conflict and breaking impasse. In addition, Chief Justice Janice Holder and members of the Access to Justice Committee will serve on a panel that will discuss statewide plans to increase community and pro-bono mediation.
Agenda
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Tennessee ADR Legal Update (.75 Dual)
An update on ADR statutes, rules and their importance to ADR practitioners
Leigh Ann Roberts, Papa & Roberts, PLLC
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Collaborative Law – A New Process
Understanding the law, process and procedure of collaborative law
Lisa Collins Werner, Consensus Mediation Group
Cynthia Pensoneau, Shea, Moskovitz & McGhee, PLC
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. BREAK
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Mediation: The Dance and the Deal
A practical analysis of the mediation process from pre-mediation contacts, opening statement, caucuses, and documenting and finalizing a settlement agreement
Moderator: Joseph Jarret, Chief Deputy Knox County Law Director
William Vines, III, Butler, Vines & Babb, PLLC
Karen Hall, The Hall Law Firm, PLC
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Arbitration Fairness Act 2009
The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009: The case for it and the case against it
Margaret Huff, Margaret Huff Mediation
Robert Arrington, Wilson, Worley, Moore, Gamble & Stout, P.C.
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Mediator’s Toolbox
Tools and techniques mediators can use to expand their repetoire and develop strategies for avoiding and/or breaking impasse
Moderator: Stephen L. Shields, Jackson, Shields, Yeiser & Holt
Jonathan Stein, Law Office of Jonathan Stein
Lisa Collins Werner, Consensus Mediation Group
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Access to Justice: Panel Discussion (1 Dual)
This section will discuss the Access to Justice Commission’s plan for increased pro-bono and community mediation
Chief Justice Janice Holder, Tennessee Supreme Court
Billye Sanders, Attorney at Law
Linda Warren-Seely, Memphis Area Legal Services
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Reception (ALL INVITED)
TBA Bar Center
Total credit hours: 4.25 general, 1.0 dual