At William Mitchell, we prepare you to resolve disputes outside of the courtroom. Alternative dispute resolution offers disputing parties nonjudicial routes — negotiation, mediation, and arbitration — to settle disagreements.

Learning by doing

At William Mitchell, ADR courses qualify you to be a neutral mediator and arbitrator for a variety of cases, including family mediation, and they also teach you how to create ADR systems that allow companies and organizations to prevent and manage internal conflicts. For example, students in our Advanced ADR course have designed such systems for a Fortune 500 company and Minnesota's largest union.