Prof. Francis McGovern Duke University, School of Law, Durham, NC PROFESSOR FRANCIS McGOVERN has the unusual ability to integrate practical experience, abstract thinking, and teaching. This has earned him the ""triple crown"" in the legal community as premier practitioner, scholar, and teacher in the field of alternative dispute resolution. Professor McGovern has created very sophisticated computerized models of the valuation of massive claims. By estimating what the claims are worth to the plaintiffs or will cost the defendants, his models narrow the range of reasonable settlements amounts and help parties to settle more quickly. A prolific writer, Professor McGovern is the co-author of two published books, Successful Litigation Techniques and The Preparation of a Product Liability Case, and two books in progress, Toxic Substances Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is widely sought as teacher, but not only by students enrolled in law school. In addition to carrying a full load of classes, he has given over 50 speeches in the last tow years to academics, judges, and lawyers on issues ranging from international dispute resolution to an update of the law of product liability.