PON Live! The Art of Asking Questions in Mediation and Negotiation
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
PON Live!
The Art of Asking Questions in Mediation and Negotiation
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A webinar with:
David Hoffman
John H. Watson, Jr., Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Mediator, Arbitrator, Attorney, Boston Law Collaborative, LLC
Monday, June 24, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
The session will be recorded. Pending approval, we will post the recording on this page after the session.
About the talk:
Mediators and negotiators sometimes forget how powerful and effective it can be to ask the right question at the right time. Well-chosen questions can open people’s hearts and minds. In this webinar, David Hoffman will offer a framework for thinking about what types of questions one might consider asking at different stages of a negotiation. He will also discuss the emotional dimensions of asking questions and how they can harness the power of emotion to communicate awareness of the other party’s goals and interests. During the talk, participants will have an opportunity to post examples of effective – and transformative – questions they have asked in a negotiation.
About the speaker:
David A. Hoffman is the John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches three courses: Mediation; Legal Profession: Collaborative Law; and Diversity and Dispute Resolution. He trains mediators with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Hoffman is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and founding member of Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, where he handles cases involving family, business, employment, and other disputes. He is past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution.
Hoffman has published three books including Bringing Peace into the Room (with co-editor Daniel Bowling) and more than 100 articles on law and dispute resolution. Prior to founding Boston Law Collaborative in 2003, Hoffman was a litigation partner at the Boston firm Hill & Barlow where he practiced for 17 years. Before that he served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
He has received a number of awards for his work as a mediator, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the D’Alemberte-Raven Award for service in dispute resolution from the ABA. Hoffman has an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Cornell University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. His TEDx talk about “Lawyers as Peacemakers” can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKXv1_Sqe_4. Hoffman lives in a cohousing community in Acton, Massachusetts with his wife, Leslie Warner, who is a career coach. They have five adult children, an adolescent cat, and a rescued golden retriever from Serbia.
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