Law Schools and Law Students Both Benefit from Hands-on Experiential Learning Programs
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Don Philbin, a top-ranked mediator in Texas as well as adjunct faculty member and double alumnus at Pepperdine Law School, saw an opportunity to include law students in creating Picture It Settled®, a highly intelligent predictive analytics software tool that guides inside and outside counsel through the negotiation process, based on deep data harvested from thousands of cases.
Philbin explains, “We started gathering data and realized that students were interested in examining what happened during a real negotiation. We hired a group of students as paid research assistants to study and enter in tactical negotiation data from thousands of cases into spreadsheets. The data was then dropped into Picture It Settled. Our students had the chance to ‘look under the hood’ to see what outcomes resulted from which negotiation strategies. Many of them subsequently wrote about decision science, workings of the brain and experimental psychology. We helped some turn their class papers into published papers, thus helping them distinguish themselves in the legal profession while still in law school.”
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