Unlocking the Secrets of Mediation: Strategies to sharpen your negotiation and case resolution skills to maximize recovery and minimize loss

Darren T. Brenner
Darren T. Brenner | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP

Darren T. Brenner is a partner at Wright, Finlay & Zak in Las Vegas, Nevada office. His practice focuses on consumer finance litigation, insurance coverage, and commercial matters since 2003.

On-Demand: April 20, 2023

Unlocking the Secrets of Mediation: Strategies to sharpen your negotiation and case resolution skills to maximize recovery and minimize loss

$195.00 1.5 hour CLE

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Program Summary

Headed to a mediation? Want to maximize your recovery or minimize your loss? Increase your knowledge of strategies and tactics to reach your goals. Our speaker, Darren Brenner, teaches you how to prepare for your mediation, read your opponent, avoid pitfalls, and successfully reach settlement even in the most difficult situations. Whether you’ve been mediating cases for years or are just starting, sharpen your negotiating and case resolution skills with this seminar.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • Selecting the Right Neutral
  • Preparing for the Mediation
  • Recognizing Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Negotiation Tactics
  • Posturing versus Misrepresentation
  • Moving Past Deadlock
  • Agreement and Release Landmines

Date: April 20, 2023

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Darren T. Brenner_Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP_FedBarDarren T. Brenner | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP

Darren T. Brenner is a partner at Wright, Finlay & Zak in Las Vegas, Nevada office. His practice focuses on consumer finance litigation, insurance coverage, and commercial matters since 2003. Mr. Brenner has significant experience with consumer financial transactions, bad faith insurance litigation, insurance coverage litigation, contractual disputes, quiet title, declaratory relief, lien rights, wrongful foreclosure, FDCPA, FCRA, TILA, TCPA, deceptive trade practices, bankruptcy discharge violations, and class actions. Mr. Brenner has tried more than 25 cases to judgement, and has argued numerous matters before the Ninth Circuit and the Nevada Supreme Court.

Mr. Brenner graduated from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, in 2003, cum laude and Order of the Coif. Mr. Brenner frequently writes and lectures on topics ranging from insurance coverage to general civil practice. He is licensed to practice before all federal and state district courts in Nevada, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada, Nevada Court of Appeals, Nevada Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He has frequently been recognized as a Top Rated Civil Litigation Attorney by Super Lawyers Magazine. He has also been recognized by Nevada Business Magazine as one of Southern Nevada’s top attorneys in Consumer Financial Services and Litigation multiple times, including as recently as 2020.

Agenda

I. Selecting the Right Neutral | 11:00am – 11:12am

II. Preparing for the Mediation | 11:12am – 11:24am

III. Recognizing Strengths and Weaknesses | 11:24am – 11:36am

IV. Negotiation Tactics | 11:36am – 11:48am

V. Posturing versus Misrepresentation | 11:48am – 12:00pm

Break | 12:00pm – 12:10pm

VI. Moving Past Deadlock | 12:10pm – 12:25pm

VII. Agreement and Release Landmines | 12:25pm – 12:40pm