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    BROWN BAG PROGRAMS

    The ADR Program of the Northern District of California
    is pleased to present
    DECISION TREE ANALYSIS
    A Quantitative Analysis Approach to Valuing Lawsuits
    Presented by Brendon Ishikawa

    Wednesday, June 3, 2009
    San Francisco Courthouse
    Arizona Room, 2nd Floor
    12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    Optional small group exercises: 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

    This program will focus on the challenge of assisting parties and their counsel during settlement discussions to make rational, sound decisions regarding their degree of risk and their appropriate settlement range. As mediators and evaluators, we all have faced situations where we knew parties and counsel had failed to assess their risk other than through broad generalizations, such as a “great chance at trial,” and where we intuited that counsel and her client had assigned very different meanings to those generalizations and had failed to communicate clearly. Decision tree analysis provides a useful tool which can assist parties and their counsel to make more reasoned judgments about risk.

    This program is limited to a maximum of 40 participants and is open only to mediators and neutral evaluators who are current members of the court’s panels. This activity qualifies for 1.5 hours of general MCLE credit for the main program, and .5 hours of general MCLE credit for the optional small group exercises.

    To RSVP, please email tim_smagacz@cand.uscourts.gov.

    ADVANCED MEDIATION PRACTICE GROUPS

    These small groups meet monthly at the same time and location, allowing the members to get to know each other well. Groups sometimes discuss general issues in mediation practice, but are primarily focused on analyzing and reflecting on specific occurrences of interest or concern that have arisen in actual mediation sessions conducted by members of the group. To join a practice group, you must commit to attending the same group for at least 6 months. For further information, please contact the ADR Program at 415-522-2199.