The Negotiations Competition provides law students with the opportunity to develop and practice negotiation skills. Students work in pairs and negotiate against another pair of students acting as attorneys. Each team represents a client and is provided with both common and confidential facts. The confidential facts represent the concerns of the client to be addressed in the negotiation.
2012-2013 Committee:
Emily E. Von Werlhof, Chair
Deirdre R. Barthel, Associate
Professor Dorothy Hill, Faculty Advisor
Competition Requirements:The competition consists of pairs of students acting as a team to represent the hypothetical client. Each team must formulate a strategy designed to elicit the necessary information from the client. Competition is open to all second-, third-, and fourth-year Albany Law students who have a GPA of 2.0 or above. The competitors will be required to address a different problem for each round of the competition.
Announcements: Congratulations to the 2012 Donna Jo Morse Negotiations Winners Ian E. Penders and Andrew D. Woodman, and Finalists Krysten G. Kenny and Marc R. Pallozzi!
Both finalist teams demonstrated excellent negotiating skills, and after a very close round, Ian and Andrew were declared the ultimate winners of the competition.
The final round was held on March 6, 2012.