Conflict Management in Legal Practice

3 Credit Hours

The goals of this course are to help students learn to better manage conflict in their professional and personal lives and, as a result, provide better service to their clients and experience more satisfaction. Specifically, students will learn to 1. Manage external conflict (between people), through four negotiation approaches and models. 2. Manage focus, awareness, stress, and emotions, through mindfulness, a way of paying attention that can improve performance and satisfaction. 3. Manage internal conflict (within a person), through internal family systems (IFS), a psychological model of the mind that includes internal Subpersonalities" or "Parts" that interact as a system. 4. Integrate negotiation, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems. 5. Write better.