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Preventing the Dispute Before It Begins

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (EDT)

* Registration open until 6/2/25 at 10:00 AM (EST)

Event Details

Build Better Business Relationships

Learn how to manage conflict and leverage dispute prevention mechanisms.

Register today for this unique event, which will feature a fireside chat with the authors and in-house counsel, followed by a networking reception.

Preventing the Dispute Before It Begins: Proven Mechanisms for Fostering Better Business Relationships was recently published by the ABA Business Law Section to help practitioners understand and adopt more proactive dispute prevention practices.

This comprehensive guide explains 18 dispute prevention mechanisms that can help control and eliminate contract disputes and successfully manage better business relationships.

Why is this important?
Because building and maintaining strong business-to-business relationships can be key to generating value in many types of commercial ventures.

Attendees will leave this event with an understanding of how to identify sources of conflict early, as well as how to keep conflict productive and constructive rather than allowing it to become a destructive (and costly) dispute.

Many thanks to our generous host, CPR Institute law firm member DLA Piper.

Speakers
Kate Vitasek, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee
Kate Gonzalez, Senior Legal Counsel, Airbus Americas
Jim Groton, Partner (retired), Eversheds Sutherland
Ellen Waldman, Vice President, CPR Institute
Allen Waxman, Of Counsel, DLA Piper

Who should attend?
Transactional lawyers, litigators, in-house counsel, neutrals, relationship managers, and others interested in business growth.

This event is free and open to the public.

Agenda
5:30 Welcome Remarks - Serena Lee, CPR President & CEO
5:35 Fireside Chat
6:15 Networking Reception

Registration Information
Advance registration is required and will close on Monday, June 2, at 9:00 am (ET).

Members of the CPR Institute are asked to log in to this website before registering (look for "log in now" at the top of this page). Please select the Member ticket.

Non-members are asked to select the Public ticket.

Neutrals on the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals are asked to select the Distinguished Neutrals ticket.

For assistance with registration or to determine your membership status, please e-mail Micah Seigel at mseigel@cpradr.org.

For More Information:

Elizabeth (Lizzi) Merrill
Elizabeth (Lizzi) Merrill
Director, Membership CPR Institute