ADR/Counseling Competitions
Learn the Art of Negotiation and Client Counseling
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University’s nationally recognized trial skills program interfaces with the traditional curriculum allowing students an opportunity for simulated learning skills sessions. The program features introductory, as well as advanced learning in the art of client counseling.
Our student teams participate in many external client counseling competitions throughout the year, such as those listed below. Client Counseling competitions addresses fundamental skills necessary for all successful attorneys, namely the ability to interview, counsel, and support a client through their legal issue. Competitors conduct an initial interview with a person playing the role of the client and then address both the client’s legal and non-legal needs.
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The ABA Law Student Division’s Negotiation Competition offers you a forum to develop the very skills you will use as a practitioner, and a chance to meet and network with fellow law students - future colleagues - from around the nation. Moreover, participation in a national competition will give you an opportunity to gain important resume-building experience and recognition. This competition engages students in legal negotiations to resolve a series of legal problems. Contest simulations consist of a common set of facts known by all participants and confidential information known only to participants representing a particular side.
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The Client Counseling Competition was conceived and developed as a legal teaching technique and is intended to promote greater knowledge and interest among law students in the preventive law and counseling functions of law practice. It also encourages students to develop interviewing, planning, and analytical skills in the lawyer-client relationship in the law office.
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This competition simulates a realistic arbitration hearing, where students represent a client and participate in opening statements, witness examinations, exhibit introductions, evidentiary presentations and summations.
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This competition allows students to represent clients in a mediation situation. In this competition, law students role-play as attorneys and clients in a mediation setting. The competition measures how well law students model appropriate preparation for and representation of a client in mediation.