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Arbitration for Advocates
 

This intensive, three-day program is designed to enhance the arbitration skills of experience labor relations practitioners -- union business agents and stewards, personnel managers and analysts, and attorneys -- for both labor and management. Private and public sector representatives will both benefit.
 
2009 dates to be determined
 
 
This class will only be offered once this year.

Course Information

Particpants will participate in a mock arbitration of a complex case that raises discipline and contract interpretation issues. The faculty will include members of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA). Registrants will receive course texts and a specially compiled set of arbitration practice guides.

Topics Include:

  • Educating the arbitrator prior to hearing
  • Opening the case with a winning statement
  • Structuring the order of proof
  • Proving negotiating history and past practice
  • Making and responding to evidentiary objections
  • Examining witnesses
  • Offering relevant prior precedent
  • Relying on external law to strengthen your position
  • Seeking and opposing uncommon remedies
  • Crafting effective closing arguments and post-hearing briefs

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive an FMCS Certificate of Training.

Faculty:

  • Margaret R. Brogan, Arbitrator/Mediator, NAA
  • Barry Winograd, Arbitrator/Mediator, NAA

For online course registration please click here.

FMCS Institute for Conflict Management  202-606-3627 or 206-553-2773.






Arbitration for Advocates


Arbitration for Advocates in the Federal Sector


Becoming a Labor Arbitrator


Evidence and Witness Examination in Arbitration


The Generational Mix in the Workplace


Mediation Skills for the Workplace


Negotiation Skills

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