Skills & Values: Alternative Dispute Resolution

John Burwell Garvey is Professor of Law and Director of the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He is nationally recognized for his innovative work with the Webster Scholars, and was identified by National Jurist as one of the 25 most influential people in legal education. He was selected to serve on the Carnegie Foundation's Initiative on the Future of Legal Education and has been a frequent speaker at national and international events regarding the Webster Scholar program and innovations in legal education. Prior to joining UNH Law as a full time faculty member in 2005, Professor Garvey had a long association as a member of the adjunct faculty. He first taught Evidence at the law school in 1985 and continues to teach numerous courses related to litigation and dispute resolution at UNH Law. He frequently teaches negotiation and mediation skills to many New England practitioners and also teaches Problem Solving, Decision Making and Negotiation in the Management Leadership Development Program at the Rockefeller Center of Dartmouth College. Professor Garvey started his legal career as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, receiving both the Navy Achievement Medal and the American Bar Association Award for Professional Merit. In 1981, he joined Sulloway & Hollis, where he went on to serve as chair of the litigation department. In addition to being an experienced trial lawyer, Professor Garvey is a well known mediator and arbitrator with over 20 years of experience. He is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, has been selected for Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and is A/V rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He has received numerous awards for his legal work, including the NH Bar Association Award for Outstanding Professionalism and the NH Civil Liberties Union Bill of Rights Award.

Charles Craver is Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law at George Washington University. He has received awards for outstanding teaching from three different law schools, including GW Law. Over the past 35 years, Professor Craver has taught negotiation skills to 90,000 lawyers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, England, Austria, Germany, the People's Republic of China, and Turkey. Professor Craver is coauthor of Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Advocate's Perspective (4th ed. 2011), Legal Negotiating (2007), Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration (1988), as well as several books on employment law. He is the author of Effective Legal Negotiation and Settlement (7th ed. 2012), The Intelligent Negotiator (2002), and law review articles on various aspects of labor and employment law and dispute resolution. Professor Craver practiced law with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and clerked for Judge George MacKinnon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He i