ADR Field Clinic
Students selected for the Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Field Clinic have the opportunity to extern for various dispute resolution programs, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. They also participate in a weekly seminar.
ADR Field Clinic students are placed in semester-long field placements at a variety of dispute resolution organizations throughout New York City. These field placements include opportunities for students to learn about a range of dispute resolution processes including arbitration, mediation, and restorative justice. Field placements also provide students opportunities to learn a variety of practice areas including employment, family law, commercial litigation, among others. In their placements, students observe and participate in live cases with clients, provide written legal work and research, administer services, attend events and work with their assigned supervisor to gain professional acumen and insight in the dispute resolution field.
ADR Field Clinic students attend a weekly seminar designed to provide theory and practice points and create reflective support for their work in the field. Seminar professors introduce students to skills in interest-based negotiation as well as the facilitative style of mediation that is instructed in the Cardozo Mediation Clinic. Students will also have opportunities to learn about various ADR practice areas from a diverse corps of Field Clinic supervisors through the seminar’s speaker series. Students will also discuss and write about the application of ADR concepts to their clinical case work.
Previous Field Placement Opportunities Include:
- JAMS
- The American Arbitration Association and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution
- The New York International Arbitration Center
- The Center for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
- The Center for Creative Conflict Resolution at OATH
- The Center for Justice Innovation
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- The New York Commission on Human Rights
- The New York Legal Assistance Group
- The New York Peace Institute
- New York State Court Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution
- The Red Hook Community Justice Center
- Supreme Court Mediation Program in New York County
- The U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Alternative Dispute Resolution Department
- The U.S. Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mediation Office
Our Faculty
Krysta Hartley
Krysta Hartley is a Senior Management Analyst for the New York State Unified Court System’s Office of ADR, where she consults on training, data collection and reporting and statewide ADR protocols and practices. Hartley has also worked in civil and family courts as a law clerk handling legal issues raised in complex civil term motions and mediations and settlement conferences with counsel and pro se litigants in various areas of the law.
Catherine Hannibal
Catherine Grace Hannibal, Esq. is the principal family and divorce Mediator and Collaborative Attorney (on sabbatical) with Grace Family Mediation. Previously, Catherine was with Mediation Works, Inc. a premiere boutique family mediation practice, where she served clients primarily in Manhattan and Westchester for close to a decade. She has special training in Child Inclusive and Family-Centered approaches to Divorce Mediation and in Marital Mediation and Adult Family and Elder Law matters.