Michael John Dodge is the Vice President and General Counsel of Chrysler Insurance Company, Associate General Counsel of Chrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, and adjunct Professor of Negotiation at MSU Law. Mr. Dodge has an extensive background as both a negotiator and a teacher of negotiation. Mr. Dodge was International Counsel for Chrysler Financial Services LLC from 1995 through 2001 and during that period he created banks and finance companies, negotiated joint ventures, and was lead counsel in dozens of Mergers and Acquisitions projects in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Holland, China, Japan, Venezuela, Argentina, and Ireland. Professor Dodge has been teaching negotiation for over 20 years. In the 1990s, he developed a three-day seminar in negotiation that he has given regularly to law firms, insurance companies, and manufacturing firms. He subsequently developed this seminar into a full law school class, which has been offered for the past 10 years at MSU Law.