Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment - by Michaela Keet & Heather Dianne Heavin & John Lande John (Paperback)

About the Book

This book fills a void in the library of practice guides about assessment of parties' interests and risks in litigation. It is a must-read for litigators and mediators who want to help their clients as they struggle to deal with problems through the legal system. This book is also for corporate and government counsel and executives, settlement conference judges, and law school faculty and students.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michaela Keet is a professor at University of Saskatchewan's College of Law, in Canada. She has developed the Dispute Resolution stream in the college's curriculum and has taught and lectured extensively--inside and outside the university--in the areas of negotiation and mediation. Her research and publications focus on court-connected dispute resolution processes, problem-solving roles and negotiation models for lawyers, and judicial mediation. In 2016, Professors Keet and Heavin were awarded the Gonthier Fellowship by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, which led to a series of articles on the topic of litigation risk assessment, available at papers .ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1723623. She is regularly invited to present to audiences of lawyers, judges, and mediators across Canada. Prior to joining the law faculty, she worked in private practice as a litigator and also has 25 years of experience as a mediator. Heather Heavin is associate dean of research and graduate studies and an associate professor with the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. She has a BSc (hons) and LLB from the University ofSaskatchewan and LLM from Harvard University. Her research has focused primarily on international and domestic trade dispute resolution and business law and more recently in the area of risk assessment. Prior to joining the law faculty, she served as law clerk to E.D. Bayda, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan, and worked in private practice at MLT LLP (now MLT Aikens). She and Professor Keet were awarded the Gonthier Fellowship by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice in 2016 for their work on litigation risk assessment, resulting in several publications on the topic that can be downloaded at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=346659. John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law and former director of its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution. He earned his JD from Hastings College of Law and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He began mediating in 1982 in California. His publications focus on dispute system design, including planned early dispute resolution, improvingthe quality of mediation practice, designing court-connected mediation programs, negotiation theory and practice, how lawyering and mediation practices transform each other, the "vanishing trial," business lawyers' and executives' opinions about litigation and ADR, and legal education. The ABA published his book, Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money. His website, where you can download his publications, iswww.law.missouri.edu/lande.