Lawyer Negotiation


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The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Designed to prepare law students to negotiate knowledgably and successfully as lawyers representing clients, Lawyer Negotiation: Theory, Practice, and Law, Fourth Edition features an integrated approach that combines theory, skills, negotiation strategy, ethics, and law. A sleek, readable, and lively text for any law school Negotiation course, this book reflects the authors’ experience as negotiators, mediators, ADR teachers, and trainers. Interesting notes, thoughtful problems, provocative questions, and new video resources throughout the text raise practical negotiation challenges and policy issues. The focus is on negotiating legal claims and issues on behalf of clients. Previous editions have proven popular because of the very readable and lively text, interesting notes, thoughtful problems, and provocative questions that raise practical negotiation challenges and issues, which are updated in this new edition. Carefully curated excerpts from other leading authors are included, allowing for diverse ideas to be presented on negotiation techniques and eliminating the need for supplemental material. Vivid examples are included from real cases and literature, which bring negotiation concepts and applications to life. The book is designed for experiential, interactive teaching utilizing provided role-plays, exercises, problems, and streaming video examples. In addition to direct negotiation, how to advantageously use assisted negotiation in the form of mediation advocacy is included. New to the Fourth Edition: Fresh material and perspective benefiting from a new co-author Each chapter has been updated with new insights and examples More video-based examples, problems, and resources—linked video excerpts can now be streamed showing different negotiation styles and techniques Streamlined presentation of outside excerpts Greater coverage of distance negotiation, including email and remote contexts Increased focus on #MeToo, gender, social activism, historical inequities, anti-racism, cultural and style differences, online negotiation, technological advances, and other crucial issues affecting negotiation and dispute resolution today Excerpts have been condensed or summarized to shorten reading assignments, allowing more time for experiential learning Professors and student will benefit from: Step-by-step organization and readings designed to be used as part of an active experiential class without sacrificing the deep knowledge expected in a law school course Informal writing style, interesting examples, practical advice, and thought-provoking questions, all written specifically for law students who will soon represent clients as negotiators Practice-based approach which helps students apply the concepts Exercises and accompanying role-plays that facilitate classroom discussion Assessment tools to aid in student learning and understanding Videos that show experienced lawyers, negotiators, and mediators performing role plays




The Lawyer's Guide to Negotiation


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Chronicles the efforts of the men and women who dedicated their lives to protecting the United States' natural heritage and includes step-by-step instructions on how to build a birdfeeder, conduct a water quality survey, start a compost pile and more. Original.




Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers


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This practical, easy-to-use guide is designed to help you figure out quickly what went wrong in yesterday's meetings, and how to fix it in tomorrow's follow-up. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, followed by a standard section, Why This Concept Might Change Your Thinking. There, the author explains succinctly why their body of work might be useful specifically for lawyers. After that, each chapter has a section called Action Plan--What You Can Do Differently Tomorrow in which each author outlines specific steps you can take in your next negotiation. No other book comes close to this level of help for a lawyer facing a typical or even downright strange negotiating problem. This guide contains everything you need to know about negotiating in one compact volume.




Legal Negotiation and Settlement


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This work is written primarily for law students who are learning negotiating skills in clinical courses, but it will serve equally well for lawyers and others who are interested in the topic of negotiation. The book has three main areas of emphasis. First, negotiating behavior of practicing lawyers fall into two main patterns-?cooperative? and ?aggressive?-and implications of those patterns is discussed. The author then covers the four stages of the negotiation process, and lastly lays out the legal rules and economic principles that apply to the negotiated settlement of disputes. The Appendices include transcripts to two lawyer-to-lawyer negotiations.







Getting to Yes


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Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement.




Negotiating on Behalf of Others


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Negotiating on Behalf of Others offers a framework for understanding the complexity and effects of negotiating on behalf of others and explores how current negotiation theory can be modified to account for negotiation agents. Negotiation agents are broadly defined to include legislators, diplomats, salespersons, sports agents, attorneys, and committee chairs—anyone who represents others in a negotiation. Five major negotiation arenas are examined in depth: labor-management relations, international diplomacy, sports agents, legislative process, and agency law. The book concludes with suggestions for future research and specific advice for practitioners. Chapter authors and commentators are leading figures in the field of negotiation. Negotiating on Behalf of Others is a must read for professional negotiators, graduate students, and scholars in the areas of business, public policy, law, international relations, sports, and economics. Negotiating on Behalf of Others is the result of the first of a series of seminars conducted by the faculty of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard on "complicating factors" in negotiations. The first of these complicating factors selected for study was the effect of the presence of an agent on the negotiating process.




Psychology for Lawyers


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The primary goal of this book is to expose lawyers and law students to some of the key insights offered by the field of psychology and to illustrate the ways in which understanding these insights can improve the practice of law.




Beyond Winning


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Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, deals blow up, cases don’t settle, relationships fall apart, justice is delayed. Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence in the legal system. It offers a fresh look at negotiation, aimed at helping lawyers turn disputes into deals, and deals into better deals, through practical, tough-minded problem-solving techniques. In this step-by-step guide to conflict resolution, the authors describe the many obstacles that can derail a legal negotiation, both behind the bargaining table with one’s own client and across the table with the other side. They offer clear, candid advice about ways lawyers can search for beneficial trades, enlarge the scope of interests, improve communication, minimize transaction costs, and leave both sides better off than before. But lawyers cannot do the job alone. People who hire lawyers must help change the game from conflict to collaboration. The entrepreneur structuring a joint venture, the plaintiff embroiled in a civil suit, the CEO negotiating an employment contract, the real estate developer concerned with environmental hazards, the parent considering a custody battle—clients who understand the pressures and incentives a lawyer faces can work more effectively within the legal system to promote their own best interests. Attorneys exhausted by the trench warfare of cases that drag on for years will find here a positive, proven approach to revitalizing their profession.