Successful Settlements 2017: Strategies and Tactics For Civil Litigators

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Topics will include:

• Significant recent law with potential to impact mediation, confidentiality of settlements, med/arb, and enforcement of settlements
• The relationship between the litigation timeline and the opportunities for settlement presented at each stage
  – How does the pursuit of settlement influence the timing and manner in which you draft pleadings?
  – When should you deliver an offer to settle and for how long should it remain open?
• Technological aids to settlement: the five things you should consider doing now
• How alternative fee structures and retainer agreements impact settlement discussions
• What to do when the client has unrealistic expectations or loses interest?
• Settlement and the contingency fee or underfunded non-contingency-fee retainer
• The potential contribution of less conventional approaches, including: med-arb, med and arb clauses in business agreements, expedited arbitration, early neutral evaluation, informal settlement meetings, etc.
• Great moments in settlement strategy, why they worked, and what you can borrow from them.
• The latest on avoiding pitfalls in drafting offers and minutes of settlement – including tactics and strategies to maximize the value of Rule 49.
• What clients really want from the process, and how to give it to them: a multidisciplinary panel’s perspectives and advice.

Faculty

Chairs

• Paul Neil Feldman, Feldman Lawyers
• Mitchell Rose, Stancer Gossin Rose LLP

• Caroline E. Abela, WeirFoulds LLP
• Hermie Abraham, Advocation Professional Corporation
• The Hon. Justice Todd Archibald, Superior Court of Justice (Ontario)
• Robert B. Bell, Lerners LLP
• Yonni Fushman, Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel Aecon Corp.
• Frank K. Gomberg, Gomberg Mediation Solutions Inc.
• Eric Gossin, Stancer Gossin Rose LLP
• Paul M. Iacono, Q.C., Beard Winter LLP & YorkStreet Dispute Resolution Group Inc.
• Mana Khami, Harrison Pensa LLP
• Jessica Kimmel, Goodmans LLP
• Clifford Lax, Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
• Lisa C. Munro, Lerners LLP
• Andrea Sanche, Ricketts, Harris LLP
• Nancy Shapiro, Koskie Minsky LLP
• Jason Singer, Singer Kwinter
• David J. Smagata, LL.M., Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, DAS Canada
• Lisa Stam, Koldorf Stam LLP
• Oscar Strawczynski, Feldman Lawyers
• Mary A. Teal, Hughes Amys LLP
• Moira Visoiu, Law Firm of Moira Visoiu

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