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DVD Leadership Seminar: Settlements, Negotiations & Resolving Disputes in Employment Cases Provides Executives and Attorneys with Information to Help Them Effectively Settle Employment Cases.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c73119) has announced the addition of "Settlements, Negotiations & Resolving Disputes in Employment Cases: Video Leadership Seminar with Leading Employment Lawyers David Hoffman & David Rosen David Rosen is the name of:
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The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide executives and attorneys with information to help them effectively settle employment cases, without them getting to litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 85 minutes of live video with David Hoffman of Boston Collaborative Law Collaborative Law
Collaborative law is a dispute resolution process that does not involve the courts. It is a process that is based on facilitative principles, such as mediation, but is distinct from mediation in that the parties are represented by their own attorneys who
 and 60 minutes of live video with David I David I, king of Scotland
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. Rosen of Littler Mendelson Littler Mendelson P.C. is a San Francisco-based law firm with one of the largest employment law practices in the United States. History and practice
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 PC, sharing their knowledge of and experience with mediating employment disputes in the hopes of settlement. The Video Leadership Seminar provides invaluable information for success in creating an atmosphere conducive to fair and speedy mediation on the subject of employment disputes, including the steps to take and what to avoid, as well as an overall framework and timeline for how to proceed to settlement.

Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

* Basic Background Questions on Negotiating Settlements

* 20 Minute Role Play of a Mediation Scenario

* Step by Step for Handling Negotiations

* Settlement & Negotiation of the Employment case

* Potential Outcomes and Resolving Disputes

* Hypothetical Situations and Case Studies

Samples of the types of questions answered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

What are the expectations of the defendant and the plaintiff when a new employment claim is initiated?

What are the issues being disputed during the employment cases?

What amount of company resources is dedicated to settling the case?

What do you see as positive trends in resolving disputes? What factors have contributed to these positive trends?

Who is involved in the negotiations and settlement of a case?

What is the role of the mediator in an assisted settlement situation?

What are the advantages, to each party, of a mediated settlement?

What elements of the settlement are negotiated during the mediation?

What are the trickiest points to negotiate? How are these contentious areas resolved?

What are the typical objectives of the defendant in an employment case?

Which terms are the most difficult to negotiate and why?

What does the plaintiff look for in the structured settlement?

How is the resolution or settlement format selected? Which alternatives exist?

What are the costs of settling an employment case? How do these costs compare to the financial exposure of going to court?

About David Hoffman:

David Hoffman is a mediator, arbitrator, and attorney. Before founding Boston Law Collaborative, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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, he was a partner at Hill & Barlow where he practiced for seventeen years. David's practice is focused on resolving conflict in family, business, and employment cases. He is the co-author of Massachusetts Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures for settling disputes by means other than litigation; e.g., by Arbitration, mediation, or minitrials. Such procedures, which are usually less costly and more expeditious than litigation, are increasingly being used in commercial and labor disputes, Divorce  (with Prof. David Matz) (Butterworth Legal Publishers 1994, 2d ed. 1996) and co-editor of Bringing Peace into the Room: How the Personal Qualities of the Mediator Impact the Process of Conflict Resolution (with Daniel Bowling) (Jossey-Bass 2003). David is the past chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution. In November 2004, David was David Was (born David Weiss, 26 October 1952, Detroit) is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was).

Reviewed by The New York Times
 chosen as one of the "Top 100 Lawyers" in Massachusetts in Boston Magazines SuperLawyers Directory. David will be teaching the Mediation course at Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States.  in Spring 2008.

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