OBA Labour & Employment Law PROGRAM | Original Program Date: November 1, 2018

This program is also part of the 2018-2019 Labour & Employment Law Breakfast Series.  Click here for more information and the discount of the packaged series.

Mediation has been a fundamental part of employment law since the mid-1990s. Well over 80% of cases that go to mediation settle. As an employment lawyer you are bound to do many more mediations than trials in your career.  Whether you are doing your first mediation or your 100th, this seminar will assist you in honing your mediation advocacy skills, including:

• How to prepare a dynamite mediation brief
• Joint session or no joint session
• Putting together your offers and counteroffers
• Using the mediator as a negotiation coach
• Relating to your client in the mediation
• Avoiding or going around apparent impasse
• Closing the final gap

PROGRAM CHAIR

Barry B. Fisher, Barry Fisher Arbitration and Mediation

PROGRAM SPEAKERS

Karen Sargeant, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Samantha Lucifora, Monkhouse Law