Webinar: Judicial Intern Academy – Alternative Dispute Resolution: Expanding Your Legal Toolkit and Career Opportunities

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Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is an increasingly important part of modern legal practice, providing efficient and effective alternatives to litigation across a wide range of disputes. This session will introduce law students to the fundamentals of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other ADR processes; explore when each is most appropriate; examine emerging issues such as online dispute resolution and artificial intelligence; and highlight the growing career opportunities for lawyers in ADR, including mediation, arbitration, corporate practice, and international dispute resolution.

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Presented by the Federal Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution

Presenters

Amy Boyle, Managing Partner, MSB Employment Justice

Amy Boyle is the Managing Partner at MSB Employment Justice in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Her practice involves handling all types of employment matters, with a particular focus on representing women who have experienced sex discrimination, sexual harassment and assault, and retaliation and work and whistleblower clients who have reported illegal workplace practices.  Amy also represents clients who have found themselves in an untenable work situation, advising and negotiating severance agreements for executive-level employees often leaving long-term employment.  While Amy is a tenacious litigator with a winning trial record, she is known for her no-nonsense approach to settlement negotiations and resolves most of her clients’ cases through an ADR process.

Within the Federal Bar Association, Amy is a Past Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. She is also a member of the Sections and Divisions Council and the Committee on Advancing the Legal Professional and a Past Chair of the Younger Lawyers Division.  She also serves on the Board and as a Co-Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Minnesota Chapter of the FBA.

A frequent speaker on the topics of employment law, discovery, trial, wellness and wellbeing, and diversity and inclusion, Boyle has organized and presented at many FBA events.  Aside from her work with the FBA, Boyle is active with the Minnesota Women Lawyers, serving as a Board Member and the Co-Chair of its Equity Committee and Judicial Initiative, and Minnesota NELA.

Ira Cohen, Esq., B.A., J.D., LL.M, Founder & Principal, IRA COHEN, P.A

Ira Cohen, Esq. is the Founder and Principal of Ira Cohen, P.A., an Intellectual Property law firm in Weston, FL. Ira is a Member of the Florida and New York Bars, the various District Courts both in FL and NY, the First, Second, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as the United States Supreme Court. Attorney Cohen has been rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale Hubbell. Ira has been practicing Intellectual Property law for 45 years. Ira served from 1982-1985 as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Harold J. Raby, United States Magistrate (Judge) for the Southern District of New York (1982-85). He is a proud and active Sustaining Member of the Federal Bar Association (“FBA”), Current Chair of the ADR Section/Division, a Member of the Sections and Divisions Council, a Life Fellow of the Foundation of the FBA, an FBA Moot Court Judge, an FBA Mentor, Editor of the IPLS Section Newsletter, and published articles author. He also served as a Past Chair of the IPLS Section and Past Columns Editor for The Federal Lawyer.

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• Registration Fees
  • FBA Member: $0
  • Nonmember: $95

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