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GAIN THE EDGE!® Negotiation Strategies for lawyers

February 21, 2025


 

Live in Person only at 

Charleston Marriott, 170 Lockwood Drive, Charleston, SC 29403

 PLEASE NOTE...WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCEPT WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR

 

You negotiate every day. In fact, your ability to effectively negotiate may be the most critical skill you possess. Yet most negotiate instinctively or intuitively. This seminar will help you approach negotiations with a strategic mindset.   

And make no mistake – no matter how much you’ve negotiated, you can still learn.  Adding that one new tactic may be the difference between winning and walking away empty-handed. 

Martin Latz is one of the nation’s leading experts and instructors on negotiating techniques. A Harvard Law honors graduate, Marty will help make YOU a more effective lawyer.

15 Skills You'll Learn:

1.     Latz’s 5 Golden Rules of Negotiation

2.     Ways to gain leverage when seemingly powerless

3.     Strategies to get past “No” – if all appears lost

4.     1st offer dynamics – when to make it and when to wait

5.     Secrets to success in emotionally charged negotiations

6.     Powerful agenda control techniques

7.     Deadline and timing tips

8.     Where to use Competitive techniques vs. problem solving strategies

9.     Tactics to generate creative solutions

10.  How to get power with effective information gathering

11.  When to share information – and when to keep it

12.  When to hold – and when to fold

13.  Ways to deal with untrustworthy adversaries

14.  How to keep options open while building future relationships

15.  The difference between “puffery” and unacceptable lying

 FREE Expert Negotiation advice after the seminar ends 

You will receive as an attendee:

1. Latz's critically acclaimed book Gain the Edge! Negotiating to Get What You Want 

2. An e-mail subscription to Latz's monthly negotiation column - so you will never stop honing your skills. 

About the Speaker/Book, etc.

About Marty Latz
Renowned negotiation expert Martin E. Latz, Founder of the Latz Negotiation, has trained over 100,000 lawyers and business professionals around the world to more effectively negotiate, including in Bangkok, Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Prague, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore.

An Adjunct Professor - Negotiation at Arizona State University College of Law from 1995 to 2005, Latz has also negotiated for the White House nationally and internationally on the White House Advance Teams.

Latz - a Harvard Law cum laude graduate - is the author of Gain the Edge! Negotiating to Get What You Want and his new bestseller The Real Trump Deal: An Eye-Opening Look at How He Really Negotiates. He has also appeared as a negotiation expert on CBS, CNN, MSNBC and FOX and in many national publications, including Politico, CNN.com, The Economist, South China Morning Post, and many more. He writes a monthly negotiation column that appeared for many years in The Arizona Republic and that now is e-mailed to almost 40,000 readers per month.

For more on Latz, visit www.LATZNegotiation.com.  

About Latz's seminars and writings

"Marty Latz is one of the most accomplished and persuasive negotiators I know."
George Stephanopoulos, Anchor, ABC News Good Morning America

"Easily the best CLE presentation I have attended in 39 years as an attorney.  The content, presentation and passion were superb."
Steve C. Johns, Heartland Business Exchange, Kansas

"In my 25 years practicing law, I estimate I have been to over 300 hours of seminars. I have also been honored to speak at seminars. The negotiation seminar you led was really the best seminar I have been to."
Ward Bradley, Moore Bradley Myers, PA, West Columbia, SC

"I hate cheesy, over-the-top presentations, and I was afraid this would be one of them. It wasn't. Mr. Latz is professional, fact-and-logic-based and funny. Not a showman or a ham. Great program; just what I wanted."
Nikos D. Andreadis, Astoria, NY

This seminar is an Intermediate level program.

This program qualifies for 6.0 MCLE Credit Hours, including up to 1.0 Credit Hour

SC Supreme Commission on CLE Course #250508.

 


The South Carolina Bar is an accredited CLE provider in South Carolina only. Attorneys are responsible for seeking their own credit in other jurisdictions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in CLE programs and publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the South Carolina Bar, its sections, or committees. The South Carolina Bar believes that all Bar members have the right to both meaningful learning and to the exchange of ideas in a civil environment. The Bar reserves the right to remove or exclude any person from a Bar event if that person is causing inappropriate disturbance, behaving in a manner inconsistent with accepted standards of decorum, or in any way preventing fellow Bar members from meaningful participation and learning.

Registration Fees

CLE Big Ticket (Does Not Include Book)
$0.00
Member Registration (Includes Book)
$325.00
Non Member Registration (Includes Book)
$325.00
Paralegal (Does Not Include Book)
$125.00
SC Bar Certified Paralegal (Does not Include Book)
$125.00
Price Description Amount

Agenda

Speakers

NameOrganizationSpeaking At
Martin Latz
Latz Negotiation Institute  -

Policy

Continuing Education

Agenda

8:30 a.m.
Registration

9:00 a.m.
Introduction - The "Car Negotiation Story"

9:10 a.m.
Discuss Latz's Golden Rules of Negotiation, including:
-Setting aggressive - yet realistic - goals
- Information is power - so get it!
- Increasing leverage by strengthening your alternatives

10:30 a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m.
Negotiation Ethics - Part I, including discussion of Stalking Horse Scenario and its:
- Morality - is it right or wrong?
- Ethics or Legality - does it cross the legal or ethical line?
- Effectiveness - does it work?

11:15 a.m.
Discuss Negotiation Strategies, including:
- Using objective criteria with "tough negotiators"
- Using timing to your advantage

12:00 p.m.
Lunch (will be provided)

1:00 p.m.
Discuss Negotiation Strategies, including:
- Designing offer-concession strategies
- Controlling the agenda

1:30 p.m.
Prepare to Negotiate Simulation, including:
- Learning information-gathering techniques
- Analyzing interests vs. positions
- Creatively generating options

2:00 p.m.
Negotiation Simulation

2:30 p.m.
Analyze Negotiation Simulation, including
- Evaluating Lessons Learned - what worked and what didn't

2:45 p.m.
Break

3:00 p.m.
Discuss Negotiation Strategies, including:
- Problem-Solving vs Competitive Strategies
- Impasse-Breaking Strategies
- Countering "Negotiation Games"

4:00 p.m.
Negotiation Ethics - Part II, including discussion of The "False Promise" Scenario and its:
- Morality - is it right or wrong?
- Ethics or Legality - does it cross the legal or ethical line?
- Effectiveness - does it work?

4:30 p.m.
Adjourn

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