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Negotiation Insights: Harnessing Cognitive Biases for Effective Settlements

Nick Polavin
Nick Polavin | IMS Legal Strategies

Dr. Polavin has 11 years of experience in jury research, the legal field, and social psychology and communication research.

Live Video-Broadcast: January 10, 2025

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Program Summary

A variety of seemingly small factors can have a major impact in negotiations. In this webinar, Dr. Nick Polavin discusses these factors, along with research backed strategies and techniques you can use in your next settlement discussions.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • Negotiation strategy
  • How humans make decisions
  • Cognitive biases and heuristics that influence negotiations
  • Recommendations for settlement communication

Date / Time: January 10, 2025

  • 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern
  • 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Central
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Mountain
  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Nick Polavin_FedBarNick Polavin | IMS Legal Strategies

Dr. Polavin has 11 years of experience in jury research, the legal field, and social psychology and communication research. His professional and academic research focuses on how people make decisions and the factors that influence those decisions. He has presented on this topic both to attorneys and insurance adjusters, providing audiences with practical strategies to utilize – and biases to defend against – in negotiations.

Agenda

I. Negotiation strategy | 1:00pm – 1:15pm

II. How humans make decisions | 1:15pm – 1:30pm

III. Cognitive biases and heuristics that influence negotiations | 1:30pm – 1:45pm

IV. Recommendations for settlement communication | 1:45pm – 2:00pm

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