Total Credits: 3.0 CLE
This seminar will discuss the psychology of negotiating, offer negotiating tips from the plaintiff and defense perspective and learn from a mediator what their perspective is during negotiations.
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Susan Donovan serves as Director of the Mediation Law Clinic. The Mediation Clinic is devoted to family law. Susan is a full-time member of the clinical professional staff. Susan received her B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Birmingham Southern in 1984 and her J.D. with honors from Duke in 1987. She practiced with Howrey & Simon in D.C., and returned to Birmingham to work her way to partnership at Bradley Arant. She was in private practice in Tuscaloosa from 2001 to 2009, and a part-time staff attorney for our Elder and Domestic Violence Clinics in 2008-09. Much of her private practice in Tuscaloosa was in family law, and she served as Guardian Ad Litum on appointed and pro bono cases as well as an advocate in juvenile, family, and circuit courts.
JEREMIAH M. HODGES is the principal of Hodges Trial Lawyers, P.C., where he primarily represents persons who have been injured by the negligent conduct of corporations and other individuals. As a lawyer for injured persons, he has spent the majority of his career representing the victims and survivors of 18-wheeler wrecks, car wrecks, and motorcycle wrecks. He has also handled cases involving nursing home abuse and neglect, defective and unsafe products, assault and battery, and other sources of personal injury. Mr. Hodges also handles civil litigation and has worked on lawsuits involving fraud, insurance bad faith, embezzlement, defamation, invasion of privacy, FCRA/FDCPA violations and breach of contract. He has handled lawsuits in various counties throughout Alabama and in several states. Mr. Hodges serves on the Executive Committee of the Alabama Association for Justice and is a member of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Hodges has been selected by his peers as a “Rising Stars – Alabama by Super Lawyers in 2011 and 2012. Mr. Hodges has also been selected by the National Trial Lawyers as one of the Top 40 under 40 in the State of Alabama. He earned his B.S. degree, with honors, from the University of Alabama and his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Hodges was a member of the University of Alabama School of Law's Trial Team for two years. His team won a regional championship and made it to the national quarter-finals in the American Association for Justice Trial Competitions in 2003. Mr. Hodges has been a guest lecturer at legal education seminars in several states. Mr. Hodges is a member of the Alabama State Bar and is admitted to practice in all state courts in Alabama and Tennessee and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Mr. Colquett received his B.S. from Auburn University and his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. At Wilson & Berryhill in Birmingham, Alabama, he practices in civil litigation for insurance, individual, and corporate clients. Mr. Colquett is national co-chair of the Insurance Bad Faith Committee of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), and the author of “Alabama Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Law.” He is a member of the Alabama State Bar; American Bar Association; CLM; and the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC).
