A Unique Program To Help You Deal With Difficult Clients and Opposing Counsel
For All Levels: Attorneys, Mediators, Collaborative Law Attorneys and Support Staff Welcome!
The most important CLE you will take this year!
6.0 CLE Credits for Iowa Attorneys:
4.5 General Credits and 1.5 Ethics Credits Applied for
This unique program will provide you with information and tools to use to assist you with these situations by
showing you how to:
- Identify the interpersonal conflict dynamics of five high-conflict personality styles
- Apply ten methods for managing people with high-conflict personalities in legal disputes
- Manage the negative advocates common in these high-conflict disputes
- Identify issues for managing high-conflict personalities in litigation, negotiation and mediation
- Recognize and manage ethical risks in working with high-conflict personalities
Do you have a client who is just not listening to you? Who calls you constantly demanding that you do something? How about that file that sits untouched by you because you wish you had never taken the case? Or how about the opposing counsel you dread talking to because they are so unpleasant or manipulative?
Download the Course Agenda here.
Bill Eddy, CLSW, Esq., is President and co-founder of High Conflict Institute based in Scottsdale, Arizona. As an attorney, mediator and therapist, he has become an international author and speaker to professionals managing high conflict disputes, especially involving people with personality disorders.
As an attorney, Bill’s legal practice in California focuses on Family Law and he is a Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego.
Prior to becoming an attorney in 1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twelve years’ experience providing therapy in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years and serves as faculty at the National Judicial college and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, and his articles have appeared in law and counseling journals.
He is the author of High Conflict People in Legal Disputes, Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing a Borderline or Narcissist, and It’s All Your Fault! 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything. He obtained his law degree in 1992 from the University of San Diego, a Master of Social Work degree in 1981 from San Diego State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1970 from Case Western Reserve University.
REGISTRATION: $165 if registered by April 6; $180 if registered after April 6
You can pay online during registration via Paypal OR send a check to:
MSEI
509 Kirkwood Ave.
Iowa City, IA 52240