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Creating A Message That Helps You Attract Clients To Your Collaborative Practice (6/27/11)
Elizabeth Ferris
One of the most important strategies to grow your Collaborative Practice is to master how you communicate the value of your services to potential clients. Creating a core message is the foundation for all marketing and communication activities and is essential to growing your Collaborative Practice.
The Value of a Psychologist Mediator (3/21/11)
Ilene Diamond
While a retired judge or former trial lawyer-turned-mediator may provide excellent ADR value for large-scale commercial lawsuits, there are many types of disputes in which the client(s) may be better served by a psychologist mediator. This article highlights the unique skills and experience psychologist mediators bring to the mediation table, and provides examples of cases in which a psychologist mediator adds exceptional value.
Collaboration Needed To Improve Health Care Delivery System (2/21/11)
Holly Hayes
According to an American Hospital Association (AHA) News report, Don Berwick, M.D., Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, testified on February 10, 2011, at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the impact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have on Medicare.
Another Situation Calling For Collaborative Law (2/07/11)
Michael A. Zeytoonian
Last week, while working essentially in a role of settlement counsel in a business transaction dispute, I came across another situation that highlighted the value of using Collaborative Law (“CL”). Unfortunately, this case was already in litigation, and has already crossed state lines via a change of venue motion which was granted.
10 Things I Hate About Prenuptial Agreements (12/06/10)
Laurie Israel
Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for prenuptial agreements in second marriages, especially where there are children of the first marriage. But many of the prenuptial agreements I see are for first marriages and are unfair, badly conceived, and very destructive.
Chip Rose: Growth of Collaborative Law - Video (4/02/10)
Chip Rose
Chip Rose provides a comprehensive overview of how the collaborative law field developed and the tension and frustration experienced along the way between the lawyers and non-lawyers who finally came together a few years ago and agreed upon a mission statement.
Shaw, Margaret: Working with JAMS - Video (12/29/09)
Margaret Shaw
Margaret Shaw describes her career move to JAMS and explains the benefits she has received there: great collegiality, professional continuing education, and re-balancing her own professional focus.
Book Review Of Collaborative Divorce Handbook: Helping Families Without Going To Court (9/25/09)
Nan Burnett
Forrest S. “Woody” Mosten has been a visionary trailblazer for over 30 years. The first time I heard Woody speak was in Denver in the late 1990’s. The topic was Unbundling Legal Services. I remember thinking, boy is he courageous! I contemplated the resistance he would surely face from the rest of legal community. When you get to know Woody, you quickly discover that he is a champion of the ones who have no voice, the client drowning in conflict; a change agent on a very large scale.
Susan Carpenter: Court v. Conciliation - Video (6/11/09)
Susan Carpenter
Susan Carpenter talks about the importance of having both a court system along with conciliation and mediation processes because they both serve a purpose. There are times when people need to go to court to protect their rights and to enforce a law and people also need to be exposed to collaborative approaches so that they can use these models when appropriate.
Confidentiality in Collaborative Cases After Thottam (6/08/09)
Elizabeth Bader
The recent case of Estate of Thottam (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 1331, 81 Cal.Rptr. 856, has many mediators and collaborative practitioners worried about confidentiality in California. In Thottam, the Court of Appeal found that a mediator’s confidentiality agreement could reasonably be interpreted as a waiver of confidentiality and opened up a complex probate case to potentially expensive litigation.
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Edward J. Zorn serves clients needing mediation or arbitration,or help with Real Estate Transactions, Leases, Contracts, Sale and Purchases, Estate Planning, Legacy Planning, Trusts, Trustee Administration, Asset Protection, and Business Succession Planning in Corona, CA throughout Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino Counties including Corona, Norco, Riverside, Mira Loma, Chino, Chino Hills, Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Menifee, Murrieta, Temecula, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Anaheim Hills, Fullerton, Brea, Orange, Placentia, Tustin, Irvine and Yorba Linda.
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