Time Schedule: 60 minutes

Summary of Topics Covered:

• Introduction
• Mediator Duty of Competency
• Balancing Zealous Advocacy and Working Towards Resolution
• Do Mediators Give Legal Advice
• Does a Client Have the Right to Make a Stupid Decision
• Good Faith in Mediation
• Communications with Parties and Attorneys

Instructor Hon. Michael J. Sullivan, Esq. Bio

• Partner Brow, Drew, Massey & Sullivan
• Governor of Wyoming 1986 & 1990
• Instructor Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics
• US Ambassador to Ireland 1998-2001
• Mediator
• Service
• Chairman of the National County Hospital Board
• Chairman of the Wyoming Board of Bar Examiners
• Chairman of the Western Governors Association
• Chairman of the National Governors’ Association Executive Board

J.D., University of Wyoming, 1964
B.S., University of Wyoming, 1961