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Mediation Clinic
Community Dispute Resolution Center of Missoula
519 S Higgins
Supervising Attorney/Clinic Faculty:
Art
Lusse
406.543.1113
artlusse@hotmail.com
(Maximum of 6 students Academic Year, 2 Summer)
The mediation clinic began in 1996. The supervising
attorney is Art Lusse, former Executive Director of the Community
Dispute Resolution Center of Missoula County and an adjunct
faculty member teaching mediation & negotiation courses
at the School of Law & School of Business. The
faculty advisor is Professor Bill Corbett.
The Clinic provides year round opportunities with 6 interns
during the regular school year and two during the summer
session. Interns' experience comes from a wide variety
of mediation and conflict resolution education programs including
those offered through, the Justice and District Courts, and
on the Flathead Reservation home of the Confederated Salish & Kootenaii
Tribes.
Interns are required to have taken ADR 614, a 3 credit course
which includes a 40 hour mediation basics component. Clinicals
complete a series of 4 mediation observations and 4 additional
mediations with a experienced mediator. All intern
activities are under the direction of the clinical supervising
attorney or faculty director. Clinical interns are
involved in the following activities:
- Most interns complete the 3 credit Advanced & Family
Law mediation course prior to their clinical experience
which allows them to participate in parenting plan mediations.
- Interns serve as "coaches" and conduct demonstrations
in the basic Alternative Dispute Resolution course for
2nd year law students.
- Native Americans constitute six percent of Montana's
population. The clinical interns provide mediation services
through a court and legal services connected program to
the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation located approximately 60 miles from the Missoula.
- Interns serve in a coaching, demonstration and teaching
role in the Peer Mediation programs, which are offered
in some local middle and high schools and schools on the
CSKT Reservation.
- The clinical interns and Center volunteers collaborate
on offering a series of mediation services to University
students. Through student services individuals can request
mediation for student student, student teacher and student
administrator disputes. Married housing has a mediation
program for neighbor type disputes.
- Mediation interns meet weekly as a group with the supervising
attorney or clinic faculty member to discuss the prior
weeks activities, journal entry's, successes and problems
and plan for the week ahead.
Prerequisite: ADR 614.
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