Loyola is committed to training graduates in the skills they need to thrive in our changing legal landscape. The Dispute Resolution Program gives Loyola law students tools to resolve conflict using negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and related processes. (These mechanisms are collectively known as alternative or “appropriate” dispute resolution or “ADR”.) As the costs of trials and pre-trial discovery continue to escalate, and as clients become more sophisticated users of legal services, more cases are being resolved through ADR and fewer are going to trial.
Possession of solid and comprehensive dispute resolution skills gives attorneys an edge, whether in representing a client in a mediation or arbitration, negotiating a deal in a business or government setting, or settling a case.
The Loyola Dispute Resolution community is vibrant and growing. A faculty of more than thirty full-time and adjunct professors, made up of well-known scholars, mediators, arbitrators and attorneys, contribute by teaching, tutoring and coaching. As Loyola is located in downtown Chicago, numerous alumni also come back on a regular basis to help students practice their skills by serving as tutors, judges in mock mediations and negotiations, and guest speakers. Loyola also frequently hosts international dispute resolution competitions, symposia, and other events.
The program offers eighteen different courses in dispute resolution (see chart of ADR courses and opportunities), ranging from international commercial arbitration to collaborative family law. The newest addition is a course in electronic discovery that incorporates the cooperation principles promoted by the Sedona Conference. Most Loyola dispute resolution courses are experiential, with students acquiring skills through role-playing in simulations.
Students are also given the opportunity to put the skills they acquire into practice by participating on Loyola’s highly regarded teams in national and international dispute resolution competitions, in externships, and by representing actual clients in mediations at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission through the new EEOC Mediation Advocacy Project. In the new Mediation Certification and Courthouse Practicum course (Law 584), offered in partnership with the Center for Conflict Resolution, students are trained as CCR mediators at the beginning of the semester and Loyola faculty work with them until they obtain certification and can begin mediating actual small claims cases in state court.
To learn more about Loyola’s Dispute Resolution Program, contact Teresa F. Frisbie, Director, Dispute Resolution Program, [email protected] or read our Fall 2013 Newsletter.
Possession of solid and comprehensive dispute resolution skills gives attorneys an edge, whether in representing a client in a mediation or arbitration, negotiating a deal in a business or government setting, or settling a case.
The Loyola Dispute Resolution community is vibrant and growing. A faculty of more than thirty full-time and adjunct professors, made up of well-known scholars, mediators, arbitrators and attorneys, contribute by teaching, tutoring and coaching. As Loyola is located in downtown Chicago, numerous alumni also come back on a regular basis to help students practice their skills by serving as tutors, judges in mock mediations and negotiations, and guest speakers. Loyola also frequently hosts international dispute resolution competitions, symposia, and other events.
The program offers eighteen different courses in dispute resolution (see chart of ADR courses and opportunities), ranging from international commercial arbitration to collaborative family law. The newest addition is a course in electronic discovery that incorporates the cooperation principles promoted by the Sedona Conference. Most Loyola dispute resolution courses are experiential, with students acquiring skills through role-playing in simulations.
Students are also given the opportunity to put the skills they acquire into practice by participating on Loyola’s highly regarded teams in national and international dispute resolution competitions, in externships, and by representing actual clients in mediations at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission through the new EEOC Mediation Advocacy Project. In the new Mediation Certification and Courthouse Practicum course (Law 584), offered in partnership with the Center for Conflict Resolution, students are trained as CCR mediators at the beginning of the semester and Loyola faculty work with them until they obtain certification and can begin mediating actual small claims cases in state court.
To learn more about Loyola’s Dispute Resolution Program, contact Teresa F. Frisbie, Director, Dispute Resolution Program, [email protected] or read our Fall 2013 Newsletter.
Teresa Frisbie
Director, Dispute Resolution Program
Teresa Frisbie has been involved in alternative dispute resolution for more than half of her twenty-four year legal career. Named an Illinois Leading Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution in the categories of international, employment and commercial litigation, she has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of disputes ranging from real estate and partnership conflicts to estate and employment cases.
Ms. Frisbie is a certified mediator in the Circuit Court of Cook County Law Division and Chancery Division mediation programs, is on the panel of neutrals for ADR Systems of America, and has also served as a mediator for the Center for Conflict Resolution and as an arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County. She was named a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, in 1997, and has served as executive director and a panel member for the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association ("CIDRA"). She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and has been involved with many other dispute resolution organizations over the years. She also writes and speaks frequently on the topic of dispute resolution and has been interviewed for television and online continuing legal education programs on mediation. She has trained lawyers and judges in mediation and international arbitration in the United States and Croatia.
Prior to becoming director, Ms. Frisbie was a member of the adjunct law faculty, where she taught courses in mediation advocacy and international arbitration and coached student competitions in international dispute resolution. She was previously a partner at Foran & Schultz, spent several years at Davis McGrath, LLC and has been of counsel at DeGrand & Wolfe P.C. since 2006.
Degrees
B.A., University of Illinois, 1983
J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1986
Director, Dispute Resolution Program
Teresa Frisbie has been involved in alternative dispute resolution for more than half of her twenty-four year legal career. Named an Illinois Leading Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution in the categories of international, employment and commercial litigation, she has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of disputes ranging from real estate and partnership conflicts to estate and employment cases.
Ms. Frisbie is a certified mediator in the Circuit Court of Cook County Law Division and Chancery Division mediation programs, is on the panel of neutrals for ADR Systems of America, and has also served as a mediator for the Center for Conflict Resolution and as an arbitrator for the Circuit Court of Cook County. She was named a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, in 1997, and has served as executive director and a panel member for the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association ("CIDRA"). She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and has been involved with many other dispute resolution organizations over the years. She also writes and speaks frequently on the topic of dispute resolution and has been interviewed for television and online continuing legal education programs on mediation. She has trained lawyers and judges in mediation and international arbitration in the United States and Croatia.
Prior to becoming director, Ms. Frisbie was a member of the adjunct law faculty, where she taught courses in mediation advocacy and international arbitration and coached student competitions in international dispute resolution. She was previously a partner at Foran & Schultz, spent several years at Davis McGrath, LLC and has been of counsel at DeGrand & Wolfe P.C. since 2006.
Degrees
B.A., University of Illinois, 1983
J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1986
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