Collaborative Law/Collaborative Practice
Collaborative Law is a method of practicing law where the parties and the lawyers representing them sign a contract in which they agree to work towards settlement. If the parties are unable to settle and adversarial proceedings are to be filed, the lawyers are required to withdraw. New lawyers must be obtained for trial. In this method, the attorneys must focus on settlement and are free to use their creative problem solving skills. Communication is respectful and the process is future-focused. It works best if several lawyers in the community are trained in collaborative law so there are options for the clients and lawyers to work together. Collaborative Law was created by Stu Webb, a Minnesota family lawyer. An interview with Stu is included on this site. In one Canadian community, Medicine Hat, Alberta, collaborative law has virtually replaced the adversarial family law system. The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals [http://www.collaborativepractice.com] is a network of over 5,000 collaborative professionals and they have an annual conference. Collaborative Law is suitable for many types of law and experiments are applying it to many civil contexts: probate, employment, medical error, and business. Still, it most often occurs in the domestic area. There are several different models of collaborative law. In some places, the prevailing model in the community is the two-lawyer model. In other places, there is a multi-disciplinary team approach using a counseling team and financial advisor to work with a family in a collaborative process. You may also hear the terms Collaborative Practice, Collaborative Divorce or Civil Collaborative Law. Collaborative Practice is actually the preferred term since so much of collaborative law is actually interdisciplinary and it is more inclusive to say "collaborative practice". Collaborative Divorce refers to the full team interdisciplinary model of family law. Civil Collaborative Law refers to non-divorce applications of collaborative practice.
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Collaborative Law Resources
Articles
- Can People’s Minds Be Changed By Information?
- Secrets of Peacemaking: Understanding-Based Guides for Opening a Dialogue With Our Inner Selves
- Client as Peacemaker: Define Your Experience of Divorce by Choosing a Peacemaking Lawyer
- Make your Estate Plan About Values
- Los Angeles Cable TV Program Educates about Collaborative Law
- Warrior - Peacemaker
- Seven Ways That Mediation and Collaborative Practice Intersect
- Understanding your Divorce Induced Emotions
Blog entry
- Coming up: Collaborative Master Class in Pittsburgh
- Possibly Harmful Effects on Lawyers of Observing Judges Treating Colleagues Disrespectfully?
- Upward and Onward: Memphis Lawyers and Mediators Keep the Movement Alive
- Join Jane Faulkner on Feb 11, 10-11am PST for a free IAHL Teleseminar on MIndfulness and Conflict
- The Conversation is not ABOUT the Relationship; The Conversation IS the Relationship
- Is that support order really unfair?
- Family Constellations
- Talking Holistic Law with Stu Webb
- A Word on "Why Isn't ADR More Popular"
- Discovering Agreement vs Negotiating Terms -- a new approach
- Cultivating Mindfulness in Parenting After Divorce: BlogTalk Radio Interview
- Collaborative Law Process and Mediation
- Social Networking and Collaborative Law Process
- Bringing Healing to Law and Medicine/Collaborative Law Symposium
- In Collaborative Practice....Who owns the process? Who runs the process?
- Beware of Lawyers Who Advertise 'Aggressive Divorce': Clients Can Bring About A Paradigm Shift!
- In these economic times there is good reason for people in divorce to consider mindfulness. Who can afford not to?
- NPR Affiliate Radio Interview of Author Ellen Kellner ("The Pro-Child Way: Parenting With an Ex") and Atty Thurman Arnold
- Ellen Kellner's "The Pro-Child Way: Dealing With an Ex"
- Collaborative Law Process Develops in Tennessee
- Resonance
- New Alimony Trends
- Financial Professional Gotchas
- Exciting Doin's in Tennessee
- How I got introduced to Collaborative Practice…
- Paradigm Shifts
- Views of the UCLA
- Live from Santa Fe: Historic Proceedings: Uniform Collaborative Law
- On the proposed Uniform Collaborative Law Act
- International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers Conference
- Certifiable?????
- What is Wrong with These People?
- Do you need to start a non-profit to begin a Collaborative practice group?
- Creating a Community of Lawyers
- David Wexler in Memphis
- The Collaborative Divorce: Beginning, Middle, and End
- How exactly does this new-agey approach comport with our adversarial legal system?
- The "Coach" in a Collaborative Practice matter should always be a licensed Mental Health Professional
- It's more than skill sets....it's mind sets
Video
- Vicki James
- Norma Trusch: Renewed by Collaboration
- Mariette Geldenhuys: Designing a Life Based on Values
- Linda Solomon: Trailblazer of Texas Single Coach Model
- Kevin Fuller: Trial Lawyer Fights to Save the World
- Gay Cox: Bringing Feminine Power to Law
- David Hoffman: Bringing Peace into the Community
- John Lande: Academic and Advocate for Things He Cares About
- Liz Ferris: Marketing Collaborative Practice
- Leora Olorunnisomo: Lawyer and Social Worker
- Collaborative Law Pioneer Bruce Peck on the Project about Reconciliation as Healing
- Catherine Conner: A Collaborative Community
- Nora Kalb Bushfield
- Jeanne Fahey
- Anne Towey: A New Lawyer
- Ron Ousky
- Amy Wolff: Manager of Collaborative Alliance
- Pauline Tesler: Part 5, Hot Topics in Collaborative Practice
- Pauline Tesler, Part 4: Hot Topics in Collaborative Practice
- Pauline Tesler, Part 3: Hot Topics in Collaborative Practice
- Pauline Tesler, Part 2: Hot Topics in Collaborative Practice
- Pauline Tesler: Hot Topics in Collaborative Practice
- Video: Ron Supancic
- Video: Brad Hunter
- Video: Part 3: Stu Webb
- Video: Part 2: Stu Webb
- Video: Stu Webb: The Godfather of Collaborative Law