Inter-School Negotiation Practicum
A Unique Experiential Opportunity for Students Nationwide
Since its inception in 2019, more than 5,000 students from 58 law schools have participated in the Inter-School Negotiation Practicum. The Practicum is a fully centralized cross-school, month long one-on-one settlement negotiation exercise utilizing actual court documents from a pending federal lawsuit. Participants are paired up with a student from another law school in another city and must negotiate via email, phone, and video over a one-month period. After the exercise, students complete a substantive post-negotiation questionnaire. The Practicum, which draws at least 400 students from 18 schools each semester, is offered twice a year – during the entire month of October and March.
This is NOT a competition. Rather, this is simply a month long out-of-class experiential opportunity designed to more closely mimic realistic legal settlement negotiations. To participate, professors must make the Practicum a required, graded component of their class.
We are happy to share that the Practicum was honored as a top scoring submission in the Innovation & Pedagogy category of Bloomberg Law’s Inaugural Law School Innovation Program!
NOTE: If you are interested in registering your class for fall 2026, please email Debra Berman at dberman@stcl.edu. Please email Professor Berman for the confidential settlement memos associated with any of the past Practicum cases listed below.
We are pleased to share some post-negotiation feedback from students who have participated. Read some of their comments here: What Students are Saying
Thank you to the 67 professors from the following law schools that have participated!
| Arizona State University | Pace University | University of Houston |
| Campbell University | Penn State University | University of Idaho |
| Cardozo University | Pepperdine University | University of Illinois |
| Elon University | Quinnipiac | University of Louisville |
| Fordham University | South Texas College of Law Houston | University of Manitoba |
| George Washington University | Southern Illinois University | University of Maryland |
| Harvard University | St. John’s University | University of Michigan |
| La Verne | St. Mary’s University | University of Missouri |
| Lakehead University | Suffolk University | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Lincoln Memorial University | Texas A&M University | University of North Texas Dallas |
| Loyola University Chicago | UC Law San Francisco | University of Oregon |
| Marquette University | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | University of San Diego |
| McGeorge School of Law | University of California, Berkeley | University of Saskatchewan |
| Michigan State University | University of Cincinnati | University of Tennessee |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | University of Colorado | University of Texas |
| New Mexico State University | University of Connecticut | University of Utah |
| New York University | University of Denver | Wayne State |
| Northern Illinois University | University of Detroit Mercy | West Virginia University |
| Ohio Northern University | University of Florida | Western New England University |
| Ohio State University |
