Michaela Keet, Heather Dianne Heavin, John Lande

Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation Decisions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Everyone involved in the settlement of lawsuits should make use of this valuable resource with many practical illustrations and checklists. Even the most experienced litigators will gain valuable guidance for effective and ethical practice of litigation and negotiation. This book also is very relevant for corporate and government counsel and executives, settlement conference judges, and law school faculty and students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Bar Association
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641055710
• Artikelnr.: 70401160

Autorenporträt

Professor Michaela Keet has been involved in curriculum development in the dispute resolution area at every level in thecollege's program, including the design of an intensive dispute resolution program for first-year students and advanced courses in Negotiation, Mediation, and clinical placements. In 2011, Prof. Keet was awarded the Provost's College Award for Outstanding Teaching in Law.

Prof. Keet has worked as a mediator in private and public practice across a variety of settings. With Saskatchewan Labour, she mediated and conciliated complex labour disputes. With Saskatchewan Justice, she mediated civil litigation files including matters such as commercial contract disputes, wrongful dismissal and personal injury. Prof. Keet has also acted as a labour arbitrator and as a consultant for organizations designing or evaluating their own dispute resolution processes and systems. In the earlier part of her career, Prof. Keet worked as a lawyer in private practice, with a focus on labour, employment and administrative law.

Prof. Keet has extensive experience as a trainer and public speaker on dispute resolution processes and issues, including the development of educational programs for lawyers, judges and other adjudicators and professionals. In addition to her law school teaching, Prof. Keet has delivered presentations and training programs for the following audiences:National Judicial Institute, Saskatchewan Legal Education Society, Canadian Bar Association, Provincial Court Judges, business and human resources professionals, unions, members of local aboriginal governments, and many other organizations.

Her teaching, research and publications have focused on dispute resolution, particularly on mediation, negotiation and the integration of dispute resolution programs into the court system in both civil and criminal settings. The focus of her research is on the evaluation of dispute resolution practices and programs, and she has conducted or partnered in several empirical studies. She is the author of numerous journal articles on topics including collaborative law, lawyers' roles inside mediation, and the integration of mediation into court systems.

In 2016, Professor Keet, along with U of S Law colleague Professor Heather Heavin, were awarded the Gonthier Fellowship by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. This enabled them to complete and present the results of a project on Litigation Risk Analysis, at the CIAJ 2016 fall conference Civil Justice and Economics: A Matter of Value. This work led to the publication of a number of articles, and, more recently, a book jointly authored with John Lande, on Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment.