WHAT IS CIVIL COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE?

As a society, we are just beginning to understand the impact that conflict has on a person's entire life and the complexity of the events that propel individuals into disputes. It is no longer enough to deal only with the legal aspects of a person's dispute.

We must also deal with the events that brought the person into the dispute and the impact that the dispute has had upon the person's life and the creation of inner conflict.

Disputes affecting business, partnerships, employment issues, medical malpractice and probate and estate matters are financially and emotionally disruptive of all parties. Litigation often adds to this by creating entrenched positions, damaging or severing relationship and imposing solutions that are not effective or responsive to the needs of the parties.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

A growing number of professionals including lawyers, financial consultants, and coaches have sought a more constructive alternative. These professionals have developed the Civil Collaborative Practice Model.

Collaborative Law is a voluntary dispute resolution process originally developed by a family lawyer who had become disenchanted with the traditional style of litigation. The same alternate dispute resolution principles that have preserved the integrity and dignity of families in conflict, can also bring relief to those in disputes in many areas of civil and commercial law including:

Probate/Trust & Estates Healthcare Employment Construction