Beginning in February 2010, ICM will offer its graduate certificate and master's degree courses at the UT College of Law in Knoxville in addition to Nashville.  Only three years old, ICM has built on the work of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Law School to provide graduate and professional training to hundreds of students, lawyers and judges the Nashville campus of Lipscomb University.  Feedback from those who have experienced the interactive skills-based training at ICM indicates that the program is a unique education experience, highly relevant and immediately useful.

With the new collaboration between ICM and the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, the same national faculty, innovative graduate courses and professional mediation training provided in Nashville will now be available in Knoxville.  UT Law has long been recognized for its long-respected clinical education model.  ICM shares that commitment to bring "theory to practice" and will now offer dispute resolution courses to UT Law students, alumni and others in East Tennessee to wish to enhance their problem-solving skills, learn mediation techniques and improve negotiation outcomes in business, law and organizational endeavors.

UT Law students will be able to pursue both a Juris Doctor degree and a Masters Degree in Conflict Management from Lipscomb University at the same time.  

The future of law, business and community building will be shaped by those who are skilled problem solvers.  This new collaboration between ICM and the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution at UT Law provides the skills and the credentials to help leaders in all fields of endeavor take their place in the front ranks of those shaping that future.

Classes begin this Fall and you have the opportunity to be among the first UT Law Students or alumni to be a part of this unique program.  To apply online, click HERE.

For more information about this exciting program, contact Brent Culberson, Director of Marketing and Recruitment at the Institute for Conflict Management at (615) 966-7174 or brent.culberson@lipscomb.edu