Every September the Faculty hosts an in-school negotiation competition sponsored by Torys LLP. The goal of the competition is to allow Western Law students to develop negotiation skills that will be useful throughout the students' legal careers. Competitors need not have any previous negotiation experience. Indeed, most student participants are "first time negotiators" who simply have an interest in developing their skills. In mid-September, interested students sign up (in teams of two) to participate in the competition. Teams are provided with a negotiation problem and a detailed outline of their fictitious clients' interests, which they are able to study for a limited period prior to Preliminary Rounds. At the Preliminary Rounds, students negotiate with opposing teams while being observed by lawyers from Torys LLP, who assess the students' negotiation strategies. The goal of these negotiation is to advance client interests while achieving outcomes that are acceptable to opposing counsel. The negotiations are largely "free form", with very few rules governing student conduct. Top teams advance to a final "in-school" round, and then onto a regional competition governed by the American Bar Association. Further details concerning the competition are contained in the Competition Rules, which will be available from Professor Chamberlain in early September. The 2011 Torys LLP Negotiation Competition Finals were held
on October 12. Judged by 13 lawyers from
Torys LLP, this year's competition
featured 48 teams - the largest field in the competition's history at Western
Law. Congratulations to first Place Winners Kavina Nagrani and
Erik Van Drunen and Runners Up, Dan Levine and Travis Usher. Both teams will be
representing Western Law at the American Bar Association Regional Negotiation
Competition in Ottawa in November. Thank you to Torys LLP for their continued sponsorship and
active involvement in mentoring our student participants. 2010 Result: The winning team members of the 2010 competition were Scott Sobering and Braden Jebson.
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