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Advanced Arbitration Training

Program

Last offered in May 2007, APWU Advanced Arbitration Training is designed to acquaint arbitration advocates, who are currently arbitrating, with the advanced techniques needed to prevail in arbitration.

Stay tuned to these pages for an anouncement of the next Advanced Arbitration Training conference.

Curriculum

Classes and topics to be covered are:

• Rules of Contract Construction
• New Evidence/New Arguments
• Major Mistakes made by Arbitration Advocates
• Just Cause: Concepts and Challenges
• Writing an Effective Brief
• Due Process
• Witnesses (special situations)
• Nexus
• Latin in the Hearing
• Affirmative Defense
• Framing Multiple Issues, and
• Threshold Strategies

Prerequisite

To register for the conference participants must either be a national arbitration advocate, certified by President Burrus, or a locally certified advocate who is currently arbitrating cases. Local certified advocates must send, along with their registration forms, at least three cases which he/she has recently arbitrated.

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