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Table of Contents
Contents: Foreword
Preface
Part I: The changing world of legal practice - challenges and opportunities
1. Changes affecting the practice of law
2. The lawyer as problem solver
3. A different mindset and approach
Part II: Handling conflict
4. Understanding conflict
5. Biases in decision-making
Part III: Negotiation
6. Understanding negotiation
7. Negotiation preparation and planning
8. Negotiation planning
9. Developing a negotiation strategy
10. Executing the negotiation
11. Ethics in negotiation
Part IV: Skills and complicating factors
12. Essential skills for problem solving
13. Complicating factors
Part V: The lawyer as process architect and adviser
14. Dispute resolution processes
15. Representing a client in mediation
16. Dispute process design
17. Legal fee arrangements
Annexure a: Negotiation preparation template
Annexure b: Mediation checklist
Annexure c: Checklist for mixed-mode processes
Annexure d: Planned early dispute resolution system
Annexure e: Guided mediation draft clause
Annexure f: Joan Ollins and Billy Branson
Index.
Preface
Part I: The changing world of legal practice - challenges and opportunities
1. Changes affecting the practice of law
2. The lawyer as problem solver
3. A different mindset and approach
Part II: Handling conflict
4. Understanding conflict
5. Biases in decision-making
Part III: Negotiation
6. Understanding negotiation
7. Negotiation preparation and planning
8. Negotiation planning
9. Developing a negotiation strategy
10. Executing the negotiation
11. Ethics in negotiation
Part IV: Skills and complicating factors
12. Essential skills for problem solving
13. Complicating factors
Part V: The lawyer as process architect and adviser
14. Dispute resolution processes
15. Representing a client in mediation
16. Dispute process design
17. Legal fee arrangements
Annexure a: Negotiation preparation template
Annexure b: Mediation checklist
Annexure c: Checklist for mixed-mode processes
Annexure d: Planned early dispute resolution system
Annexure e: Guided mediation draft clause
Annexure f: Joan Ollins and Billy Branson
Index.