The Penn State University Dickinson School Of Law (DSL) Annual Negotiation Marathon Will Take Place On Saturday March 24, 2012 At The Carlisle, Pennsylvania Location Of The Law School.

“The Penn State University Dickinson School of Law (DSL) annual Negotiation Marathon will take place on Saturday March 24, 2012 at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania location of the law school.  This is an annual event for law students which event is designed by the school to introduce students to the subject of professional mediation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the context of an array of hypothetical legal disputes.  Jeff Elliott, a DSL alum, has been invited to participate again this year as a student coach/mentor and competition judge.  This will be Jeff’s third year of participating in this worthwhile and very practical exercise in ADR for teams of third year law students as they contemplate moving into the “real world” as lawyers after graduation and successfully passing the bar examination.   Lawyers from around the state are invited to participate in this program at DSL as a result of a “judicial officer or colleague nominating them as one of the most effective and trustworthy legal negotiators  he or she knows.”  The Director of this Mediation program, and an instructor on the subject at Dickinson, Professor Nancy Welsh, described Jeff Elliott as “ one of the lawyers who I want to see interacting with our students and influencing their understanding of what it means to be a lawyer and a professional.”