Collaborative attorneys approach their professional obligations differently from
traditional litigation attorneys.
Not exact matches
We have an expanded range of
traditional and niche law services on offer from our approachable and friendly team, including commercial and personal conveyancing, debt recovery and debt management, disputes and
litigation, employment law for employers and employees, family and matrimonial law, personal injury claims, mental health and capacity law, and Wills, Lasting Power of
Attorney and probate.
Plenty of
attorneys use the
traditional press as part of their
litigation strategy — using Facebook and other social networking sites may be the next step.
In earlier posts I've argued that lawyers are not yet adopting (in material percentages at least) the AI - based tools that can supplement
attorneys»
traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways of reviewing documents for
litigation discovery, automating aspects of due diligence in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting legal research (see here and here).
Attorneys also must agree not to represent their client in
traditional litigation if the process fails.
Beyond
traditional litigation, the
attorneys of the firm are industry leaders in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution («ADR») in domestic relations cases.
Unlike
traditional divorce
litigation, matrimonial arbitration is conducted in private, between the spouses, their
attorneys and the arbitrator.
Our Labor & Employment
attorneys across the globe are ready to partner with your company to assist in all aspects of employment issues, from
traditional labor law to
litigation.
The Pacific Northwest has a «somewhat typical legal market in the sense that you'll find practice groups in all
traditional legal sectors, including
litigation, corporate, real estate and land use, taxation and IP,» says Paul Danielson, recruiter for BCG
Attorney Search.
In contrast, the trademark
attorney listings remain largely unchanged; although it is worth noting that the
traditional division of labour between the two sides of the profession continues to be less and less pronounced, as law firms take on increasing prosecution dockets and
attorneys hire solicitors to build their
litigation offerings.
Uniquely positioned via decades of experience as
attorneys, law firm administrators, paralegals, law firm trainers, and legal IT, Affinity consultants have been working with law firm clients since 1998 on technology audits; strategic business & management assessments; technology selection and implementations;
traditional and cloud - based financial practice management;
litigation support and trial preparedness; and in - house training and professional development.
Additionally, our billing rates, including those of our New York and Washington, D.C.,
attorneys, are significantly lower than those of the
traditional Northeast and West Coast securities
litigation defense firms.
This concise and insightful collection of essays by collaborative
attorneys, mediators, certified divorce financial analysts, and licensed family therapists points out the risks and costs of
traditional adversarial divorce
litigation and illuminates a better path through the divorce minefield.»
Our
attorneys, who have more than 125 years of combined experience, excel at
traditional divorce
litigation, but have also helped establish our firm as one of the leading collaborative divorce and divorce mediation firms in the area.
Explore how
traditional divorce
litigation resembles the «Prisoner's Dilemma» and how a collaborative law
attorney can ensure you avoid this in your divorce.
In this chapter, experienced family law
attorney / mediators John Hoelle and Peter Fabish describe how Conscious Divorce Mediation can save you time, money, and heartache, and produce better results than what could be achieved through
traditional litigation.
Previous Native Title Reports have commented on the Commonwealth's respondent funding scheme, 81 noting its effect in hardening the positions of those who already have their interests protected in any event, 82 and its seeming encouragement of
litigation over negotiation.83 During the consultations, an NTRB in Queensland expressed frustration at the inequality created when mining and other companies are financed directly by the
Attorney - General, putting NTRBs (and therefore the
traditional owners they represent), with limited funding as described above, at a disadvantage when appearing in arbitration hearings about the doing of future acts.
Your case could also be suitable for collaborative divorce, a relatively new legal approach that combines the best aspects of mediation and
traditional litigation — but also enables you to settle your case outside of the courtroom with the assistance of specially trained
attorneys and neutral counselors and financial experts, if needed.
In the book, we hope to show
attorneys, forensic experts, and others that they do not need to tear families apart via the
traditional litigation process to make a living.
Moreover, he or she will review and analyze the documents much quicker than
attorneys are able to do in
traditional litigation cases, thus saving the clients many billable hours.
Ms. Perry's advice is great advice if you are going through a
traditional divorce with two
litigation attorneys.
In most cases, divorcing spouses resolve the issues in dispute through mediation, the collaborative divorce process, through the
traditional litigation model before trial, negotiation between
attorneys, and sometimes with the assistance of the court.
If you feel you can meet and discuss and possibly agree, you should attempt to get the agreement before you resort to retaining
attorneys and
traditional litigation.
The
traditional Family Court system, which is based on
litigation with
attorneys for each parent, tries to help families with children to resolve child - sharing disputes, but with mixed results.
If you have been going through a
traditional divorce, and you want to try the collaborative process but do not want to lose your current
attorney if the collaborative process is unsuccessful, you can chose to have a
litigation freeze.
The Collaborative Divorce model was developed in the early 1990s by
attorneys, mental health professionals and financial planning experts whose experience with
traditional divorce led them to the conclusion that family law
litigation is injurious to families and especially to children.
This interactive, high energy training is designed for family law
attorneys, mental health practitioners, and financial professionals who want to learn to use Collaborative Divorce to help families divorce in a respectful and constructive way, avoiding much of the stress and animosity typical of
traditional divorce
litigation.
This is in contrast to the
traditional litigation approach which requires your
attorney to file your case with the court, prepare for appearing in court, and follow the court - imposed rules and schedules.
As an
attorney who practices both Collaborative Divorce and
traditional litigation I experience both the cause and the effect of the breakdown of the collaborative process.
Unlike the
traditional litigation approach where each party is represented by an
attorney and the matter proceeds through the courts, mediation allows the parties to work together with the help of a trained professional, to discuss their issues and to arrive at an agreement that works best for both of them and for their family.
Since the
attorney disqualification agreement appears to be a requirement of the collaborative law process, in the off chance that the case does not settle in collaborative mediation, if there is no disqualification agreement, the parties are free to continue using their
attorneys in the
traditional litigation divorce process, which would not be an option with collaborative law.
After years of witnessing the often devastating fallout
traditional contested divorce
litigation takes on the emotional and financial well - being of families, a group of more than sixty - five committed lawyers, mental health and financial professionals formed The South Palm Beach County Collaborative Law Group, an association of
attorneys, financial professionals and mental health professionals trained in the collaborative process of dispute resolution.
In addition to
traditional litigation, Josh practices as a Collaborative law
attorney, assisting families to shift the focus from «what can I get for myself» to «what will be the best resolution for this family.»