Grande Lum, Clinical Professor of Law, Director Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

Grande Lum is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at UC Hastings Law School.  Professor Lum has experience consulting on complex transactions, equipping individuals, teams and institutions with negotiation methodologies and skills. His work included mediation, coaching, and advising for clients in the health care, biotech, pharmaceutical, information technology, and financial services industries. Professor Lum has facilitated internal and external negotiations; mediated labor-management disputes; and advised on partnering and alliances. He has developed an online learning module in negotiation, produced a video on multi-party negotiations and published a number of articles on dispute resolution. Professor Lum was the founder and Managing Director of Accordence. Prior to founding Accordence, he was a founding member of ThoughtBridge, a mediation firm. He was a partner with the consulting firm Conflict Management, Inc. Professor Lum has taught at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Law School.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center and has been an appointee on the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Professor Lum is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. He teaches Negotiation and Settlement as well as International Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. In these courses he helps students enhance their lawyering in their roles as negotiators. His interests included dispute resolution and its relation to public policy and politics.

He enjoys dancing with his wife, running with his daughter and coaching his son in basketball and baseball. When he can, Mr. Lum, a native San Franciscan, partakes in tennis and yoga.

Courses Taught: Negotiation and Settlement, International Negotiation and Dispute Settlement

My favorite part about teaching you is... both helping you gain self-confidence and high-level skill as negotiators in the short term and providing abilities that will benefit you throughout your lives.

What I hope you get from a legal education at Hastings is... a solid sense that you can achieve your potential in life and make a lasting contribution to others.

Hastings offers you the following unique opportunities... you can experience so many different vantage points on the law with the variety of intellectual classes, energizing clinics and numerous other activities. The community of students, staff and professor provides a dazzling array of perspectives and experiences.