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Collaborative Law – The Magic of Counterpart Counsel author.

Collaborative Law – The Magic of Counterpart Counsel

At some point during a divorce process, everyone meets -- there is a four-way meeting of the divorcing parties and...

By Laurie Israel
Collaborative Law As Limited Scope Representation author.

Collaborative Law As Limited Scope Representation

From the Blog of Phyllis G. Pollack.       In one of my earlier blogs, I discussed an Ethics Opinion issued by...

By Phyllis Pollack
Tips For Parents Engaged In The Collaborative Family Law Process author.

Tips For Parents Engaged In The Collaborative Family Law Process

An earlier version of this paper under the same title written by Gay G. Cox has been published with permission...

By Gay Cox
Collaborative law: attorneys who mediate and negotiate, not litigate author.

Collaborative law: attorneys who mediate and negotiate, not litigate

As family lawyer Diana Skaggs recently alerted readers, the nation's leading divorce lawyers are finding more cases settled before trial....

By Diane J. Levin

Mediators Can Enhance Collaborative Practice

Disenchanted with the adversarial system of litigating a divorce and the harm it causes all concerned, matrimonial attorney Stuart G....

By Beth D. Danehy
Imagine… A Collaborative Approach To Divorce author.

Imagine… A Collaborative Approach To Divorce

There is a movement in family law whereby divorcing couples can sign agreements with lawyers to not go to court....

By Gary Direnfeld
Lessons for Collaborative Lawyers and Other Dispute Resolution Professionals from Colorado Bar Association Ethics Opinion 115 author.

Lessons for Collaborative Lawyers and Other Dispute Resolution Professionals from Colorado Bar Association Ethics Opinion 115

Colorado Bar Association Ethics Opinion 115, “Ethical Considerations in the Collaborative and Cooperative Law Contexts" found per se violations of...

By John Lande
Colorado Ethics Committee Concludes Collaborative Law Per Se Unethical, Cooperative Law Not author.

Colorado Ethics Committee Concludes Collaborative Law Per Se Unethical, Cooperative Law Not

\As previously posted in EngagingConflicts here, there is a significant ethical critique of Collaborative Law, and a growing movement for...

By Gini Nelson
Collaborative and Cooperative Law — Promise and Perils author.

Collaborative and Cooperative Law — Promise and Perils

. . . From Gini Nelson's Blog Engaging Conflicts This is an abstract from his 2005 article: The Promise and...

By John Lande
The Collaborative (R)evolution author.

The Collaborative (R)evolution

In consideration of the responsibility of maintaining a regular column, I get the privilege of hitting clean-up to the excellent...

By Chip Rose
The Creative Solution: Sibling Non-Rivalry author.

The Creative Solution: Sibling Non-Rivalry

Either the Collaborative Law (CL) movement has already sprouted in your community or it will in the near future. The...

By Chip Rose
Collaborative Family Law: A Path Beyond Winning author.

Collaborative Family Law: A Path Beyond Winning

A modified version of this paper has been published by the Texas Wesleyan Law Review. Gay G. Cox & Robert...

By Gay Cox
Collaborative Concepts author.

Collaborative Concepts

As the Collaborative Family Law model moves into its second decade of expansion, we can observe how far it has...

By Chip Rose
The Role of Law in Conflict Management author.

The Role of Law in Conflict Management

Introduction The concept of law is as ancient as mankind. From domestic interaction to group structures, rules of law have...

By Alan Simpson
What is Collaborative Law? author.

What is Collaborative Law?

Collaborative law is a new way to resolve disputes by removing the disputed matter from the litigious court room setting...

By Maury Beaulier
Introduction To Collaborative Negotiating author.

Introduction To Collaborative Negotiating

The Adversary System Law school training and the real world attorney work experience combine in a well established and powerful...

By Chip Rose
Sample Stipulation For Collaborative Law author.

Sample Stipulation For Collaborative Law

CHIP ROSE SBN 048571 Attorney at Law 4340 Scotts Valley Dr., Ste. J Scotts Valley, CA 95066 (408) 438-1604 Attorney...

By Chip Rose
Principles and Guidelines For the Practice Of Collaborative Law author.

Principles and Guidelines For the Practice Of Collaborative Law

These Principles and Guidelines are an adaptation of the original drafted by the Collaborative Law Association in Santa Clara County,...

By Managing Editor

Collaborative Law Makes Messy Divorce Thing of the Past

(ANS) -- Married for 10 years, Carol had been through years of couples counseling with her husband to no avail....

By American News Service

Collaborative Dispute Resolution:An Idea Whose Time Has Come

"A dispute is a problem to be solved together, not a combat to be won." I start with the assumption...

By Tom Arnold
Why Collaborative Law? author.

Why Collaborative Law?

The most profound development in the legal profession since the Pound Conference convened in the early 70's and pointed the...

By Chip Rose
Turn Down the Volume When it Comes to Divorce author.

Turn Down the Volume When it Comes to Divorce

In her most recent book, The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue, Deborah Tannen asserts that our entire society...

By Barbara Stark

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