|
| |
|
|
Meet Michael Mandig
Being a lawyer in a desert area on the border of the U.S. and Mexico
comes with many challenges. To do business on both sides of the Americas
requires much skill. To be a lawyer with clients and lawsuits on both
sides of the border is a completely different story. Sometimes you
have to be a negotiator, sometimes you have to be a conciliator. Sometimes
you have to be a gunslinger as a lawyer. That is why we call Mike
Mandig el pistolero. ¨Without guns and without violence¨Mike
has said of this image.
Mr.
Mandig received his J.D., B.S. and B.A. degrees at the University
of Arizona. He is a member of the American Association of Trial Attorneys
and member of the Association of Trial Attorneys of Arizona. He has
been a professor at the University of Arizona, College of Law, and
developed international litigation and dispute resolution courses
for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
and Proyecto ACCESO. He has trained hundreds of law students and students
and lawyers from all over the Americas in the skills that a lawyer
needs in the era of globalization.
Mike Mandig News
Mike has had a very busy few months with Proyecto ACCESO let alone
his legal practice, two teenaged daughters, and a very nervous dog.
Mike is a total trooper. He did back to back Oral Advocacy I courses
- from September 23 to 27, 2002 in San Jose, Costa and then September
29 to October 4, 2002 in Santiago de Chile. He was also in charge
of the ¨gear box¨ - the now infamous technological wonder
that ACCESO uses to teach the course in a non-linear fashion (that
is, if it works). In San Jose, Mike worked with Lilia Velasquez (the
Flame of Justice) and Ricardo Gonzalez, both of San Diego, along with
Thiedyl Lucienne Arias Chaves, Federico Campos Calderón and
a number of other Costa Rican co-instructors. In Santiago, Mike got
to experience a whole different culture, time schedule and teaching
team. Working with Max Gould of New York City and two Chilean instructors,
Carmen-Gloria Ormeño, and Georgy Schubert, Mike and Georgy
had led an Oral Advocacy I workshop in Iquique together in July 2001.
Mike finished his second week and brutal schedule this year with a
quick trip to the mountains outside Santiago and a visit to Pablo
Neruda´s house in Bellavista.
Mike was on the December ACCESO´s Oral Advocacy I workshop in
La Paz, Bolivia. Working with la Flama de la Justicia , Mike will
be teaching a number of skills-building sessions for new prosecutors,
defenders, and judges. A public information campaign – coordinated
with the Ministry of Justice and GTZ - was also planned.
As part of Proyecto ACCESO, Mike´s role includes the dissemination
of public information. Lawyers, judges, judicial administrators and
law students must all play a role in educating the public about the
benefits of the Reform. |
| |
|
|
| |
| |
|