November 10, 2021
The UC Law SF Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution is training 227 members of the California Labor Commissioner’s Office on techniques to help the agency resolve disputes between California wage-earners and their employers more quickly and efficiently. In one of the largest projects of its kind CNDR has…
July 21, 2021
From June 21-29, 2021, the UC Law SF Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) virtually hosted this advanced training for the second time. The training focused on helping family mediators to spot potential issues that require additional discussion and consideration between the parents,…
July 11, 2021
The National Association of Law Student Affairs Professionals (NALSAP) hosted its Fifth Annual Conference, bringing together professionals from around the country. NALSAP serves as the professional home for those who support law students by providing leadership, professional development, and student affairs resources.
June 29, 2021
From the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), Deputy Director Mattie Robertson taught the application-only Leadership Lab Certificate for a second summer. A six-hour, interactive skills course for current UC Law SF students held in June 2021, Leadership Lab was designed to help students…
May 29, 2021
Between May 20 – 25, 2021, UC Law SF hosted a virtual Mediation Training for students and lawyers involved in its Hastings to Haiti Partnership (HHP). Hosting online was a challenge, but our professors, students, and staff managed the technical challenges and translation issues expertly. Participants joined from our partner…
April 24, 2021
An award-winning negotiation and dispute resolution team, a top-tier mediation clinic, and a holistic approach to providing students with the skills they need to be successful in the workplace are three of the qualities that likely earned UC Law SF its #8 ranking for dispute resolution programs in U.S. News…
April 22, 2021
An update from the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR), on the Mediation going virtual for Spring 2021: “Designing the car while driving it” is the way Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Clinical Professor of Law Gail Silverstein described the Mediation Clinic’s new Small Claims virtual mediation…
March 31, 2021
Each spring, US News & World Report (USNWR) publishes its annual rankings of law schools. This year, UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) ranked 8th in Dispute Resolution Programs! CNDR is one of the largest ADR programs in the…
March 21, 2021
The shift to online learning has impacted how we communicate with each other. Much is lost when we are not face to face – we are less connected as humans and misunderstandings can happen easily. Law school is an opportunity to practice bringing differing viewpoints together, instead of diverging.
March 12, 2021
In the latest Creative Commons workshop on February 24, 2021, Razor Writing, Gabriel Bellman, ’05 (Director of Graduate Advising, CDO), and Mattie Robertson, ’10 (Deputy Director, CNDR) led students in an interactive writing practice. A key skill for lawyers is being able to distill complex…
March 10, 2021
UC Law SF’ Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) hosted the final speakers of this series for a one-hour “lunch and learn” virtual event. The series featured different speakers over the course of the 2020-21 school year at UC Law SF, and was open to the public.
March 10, 2021
For almost 20 years, the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) and our co-host, the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School, have gathered law, business school, and undergrad ADR and Negotiation faculty from throughout Northern California to explore new…