Arbitration Preparation and Presentation, Level I

The Bonnie Ladin Union Skills Program AFL-CIO
Location: 
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Event Date: 
Sunday, March 1, 2015 to Friday, March 6, 2015

This hands-on class takes both new and advanced advocates through all the steps needed to thoroughly prepare and present an arbitration case involving discipline and just cause. Participants work in teams and receive extensive individual instruction, feedback and support from a union-side labor lawyer while they practice oral advocacy and presentation of evidence for a mock hearing. The class places special emphasis on techniques for developing a theory of the case and for thoroughly investigating and analyzing facts and contract language. Discussions include tools from class that can be shared with stewards committees as well as strategies for avoiding arbitration. Students receive additional feedback and critiques at the conclusion of the mock arbitration hearing. A required advance assignment guides students through the case file before coming to class. (6 days; tuition $1,099)