Christopher P. Kriesen: The Kalon Law Firm, LLC, Founder and Principal
Christopher P. Kriesen's Bio:
Christopher P. Kriesen's Experience:
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Founder and Principal at The Kalon Law Firm, LLC
June 2017 - Present | Hartford, CTHelping resolve disputes through mediation/arbitration. Leading our founding team in building a better law firm. Innovating to find ways to leverage technology and business models to provide our clients better legal services for less, to provide our team with meaningful, challenging, and flexible work.
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Attorney Trial Referee, Fact Finder, Arbitrator at Connecticut Judicial Branch
2017 - Present | Hartford Superior Court -
Founder and Principal at Cyrano Story
2017 - PresentA story consultancy.
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Adjunct Instructor of Law at University of Connecticut School of Law
2000 - 2017 | Hartford, CTTaught an advocacy class: Moot Court (various dates), wrote a primer on advocacy for students, created appellate problems for their use, and persistently innovated their class experience.
Christopher P. Kriesen's Education:
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Harvard Law School (Executive Education)
2018 – 2018Advanced Mediation Workshop, Program on NegotiationConcentration: The Advanced Mediation Workshop of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is a five-day, forty-hour training for mediators taught by a team of thought leaders and practitioners. The workshop focuses on creating fair, sustainable agreements by identifying party interests, proposing options, and creating value. -
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
2016 – 2017LEAD Certificate: Corporate Innovation (Learn Engage Accelerate Disrupt). Executive EducationConcentration: The Stanford LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation is a year-long, 8-course program on key business fundamentals: finance, strategy, and critical thinking, as well as elective options such as design thinking and the innovation process, building business models, negotiation strategies, and overcoming resistance to change. Throughout the program, participants exchange ideas and collaborate on projects with small teams of like-minded, like-motivated peers, and engage with world-renowned Stanford GSB faculty, Silicon Valley leaders, coaches, thought leaders, and luminaries through regular live events, discussions, and facilitated feedback. -
HBX | Harvard Business School
2016 – 2016Disruptive Strategy with Clayton ChristensenConcentration: HBX Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen is a 6-week, 30 hour certificate program from Harvard Business School. Disruptive Strategy helps students become fluent in disruption theory and gain confidence in articulating complex viewpoints, apply strategic frameworks to assess new opportunities and potential threats, and acquire techniques for executive-level strategy formulation and team management. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature case-based learning model. -
Stanford University
2014 – 2016Stanford Center for Professional Development: Strategic Decision and Risk Management CertificateConcentration: The Stanford Certificate Program in Strategic Decision and Risk Management teaches participants to establish clear value metrics to untangle conflicting goals, embrace risk and uncertainty, and avoid common behavioral and analytical decision mistakes. -
Trinity College
2008 – 2013M.A.Concentration: Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts -
University of Connecticut School of Law
1990 – 1993J.D.Concentration: Law -
Villanova University
1984 – 1988B.Sc.Concentration: Biology
Christopher P. Kriesen's Interests & Activities:
Attorney Kriesen has handled cases in State and Federal Court, has argued appeals before Connecticut’s Appellate and Supreme Courts, and has helped prepare amicus briefs on issues raising cases of first impression before the Supreme Court. He is a trained mediator (Harvard Law School, Advanced Mediation Workshop, Program on Negotiation and the Quinnipiac School of Law Center on Dispute Resolution). He serves as an Attorney Trial Referee, Fact Finder, and Arbitrator in the Hartford Superior Court. He is an active presenter at legal seminars for other lawyers and a mentor to law students and young lawyers.