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University of Florida’s Levin College of Law has played an active role in the development of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Florida. Its Institute for Dispute Resolution encourages and enhances teaching, research and service through courses in mediation, negotiation, collective bargaining and arbitration/international litigation.
UFLaw established its IDR, the first of its kind at a law school in the state, as a result of Florida legislators enacting one of the first laws in the country giving judges broad authority to order mediation in all types of civil lawsuits.
Students are trained to become mediators through actual proceedings involving county civil disputes (such as landlord-tenant disputes, contract cases, auto repair conflicts and consumer cases). Early course participants designed model family and dependency mediation systems subsequently adopted by Florida’s 8th Judicial Circuit.
Those completing the curriculum (approximately 130 students annually) are prepared for changes already taking place in how law is practiced.
IDR is partly endowed through a $100,000 contribution from Upchurch Watson White & Max Mediation Group, a nationally recognized mediation specialty firm with offices in four Florida cities