Moot Court: ABA Negotiation

School Competition

Limit: 20 students

Everyone negotiates, and lawyers negotiate more than most people. The purpose of this course is twofold: To study and practice effective negotiating strategies and techniques and to prepare students for the School ABA Negotiation Competition.

Students will study materials on negotiation, conduct negotiations, and critique recorded and actual simulations. This course requires intensive teamwork, class discussion and coordination of schedules. The negotiation scenarios simulate legal negotiations in which law students (usually acting as lawyers), negotiate a series of legal problems. The simulations consist of a common set of facts known by all participants and confidential information known only to the participants representing a particular side. All of the competition simulations deal with the same general topic, but the negotiation situation varies with each round and level of the competition.

Class will meet twice weekly until the School Competition.

Given the intensive class structure and schedule, the professor will not allow drops or adds after September 3rd, 2009.

Class attendance and participation in the School Competition, scheduled for Saturday, October 24th, 2009, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., is mandatory.

Between two and six students will be chosen from the School Competition to represent the law school at the Regional Competition. The Regional Competition will take place November 6th - 8th. The location of the Regional Competition this year is University of Idaho College of Law.

Students who compete in the Regional Competition may be eligible to receive an additional credit hour. † (See Regional Competition description below).

Each year the ABA Law Student Division and the Young Lawyer's Division sponsor a National Negotiation Competition. The National Competition will be held in conjunction with the ABA mid-year meeting on February 4th - 7th, 2010 in Orlando, Florida.

This year’s topic for all Negotiation Competitions is EMPLOYMENT LAW.

Enrollment is limited to 20 students, a minimum of eight students necessary.

Regional Competition

Between two and six students will be selected from the intraschool competition to participate in the Regional Negotiation Competition to represent Northwestern School of Law to be held on November 6th-8th, 2009. The location of the Regional Competition this year is University of Idaho College of Law. The selected students are eligible to add and enroll in this class after October 24th, 2009.

The winning team of the Regional Competition will advance to the National Negotiation Competition held in conjunction with the ABA mid-year meeting on February 4th - 7th, 2010 in Orlando, Florida.

Skills†: negotiation, analysis

Skills†: negotiation, analysis
†Students may not earn more than four (4) credit hours in any one skill area