A. A. White Dispute Resolution Center
Fostering Public Awareness & Understanding of Conflict Resolution
The purposes of the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center are charitable, educational and civic. The Center was organized to foster public awareness and understanding of conflict resolution and the impact of interpersonal disputes on society.
The Center also encourages broader understanding, development and use of alternative means of dispute resolution. One important mission of the Center is to study, analyze and recommend dispute resolution procedures that will provide less costly and more expeditious access to justice.
The Center provides assistance to the courts in encouraging the early settlement of pending litigation. The Center also provides assistance to educational institutions, including law schools, in the development and use of alternative dispute resolution concepts and procedures.
In addition, the Center will assist other organizations whose activities further, accomplish, foster or attain any of these purposes.
The Center was named for Dean A.A. White, the founding Dean of the University of Houston Law Center. Dean White and his wife, Ersie Kern Ator White, established the Ator Award. Judge Frank G. Evans was the 1988 recipient of the Ator Award and designated a portion of the award to the creation and financial support of the Center.
"Thecourts of this country should not be the place where the resolution of disputes begin. They should be the places where the disputes end – after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.”
-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
2008 Training Schedule |
| 40-HOUR BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING |
January 11-13 & 18-20, 2008
March 17-22, 2008
May 30-31, June 1, continuing June 6, 7, 8, 2008
Fridays: 2 – 7:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Sundays: 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
August 22-24 continuing August 29-31, 2008
Fee is $1,185.00 |
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| 30-HOUR ADVANCED FAMILY MEDIATION TRAINING |
October 10-12 continuing October 17-19, 2008
Fridays: 12:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sundays: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Fee is $895 – Deposit: $295 |
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| Commercial Arbitration Training |
January 9-12, 2008
August 20-23, 2008
Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Fee is $1,925.00 |
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