This is the first in a five-part series on advice to law students and young professionals interested in ADR as a career. The series is intended to examine the fallacies our students often hear, and to give us tools for both combating the fallacies and responding with more positive advice. Comments are welcomed!
Heather Scheiwe Kulp
As a lecturer who teaches Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a clinical instructor who supervises dispute systems design projects in the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, I am frequently asked by my students how to secure a job in ADR.
In my experience, law school career offices do not know what to do with students who want to pursue ADR as a career. For these bright, passionate students, career counseling is often left up to ADR faculty (who are also trying to balance our teaching load, clinical supervision, research, committee assignments, and other duties!). I consider it a privilege to meet with these students, especially when I end up countering bad advice they’ve received from other, often well-meaning, lawyers who know little about ADR as a field...
Fallacy #1. ADR = Mediation
In my opinion, this is the most common and most impactful fallacy; if one believes this, the belief leads to concluding that the other four fallacies are mostly true.
Read the full post [HERE].