Why Choose Collaborative Law?
An option that is gaining popularity for dispute resolution, collaborative law offers personalized solutions and allows individuals to handle conflicts privately and with integrity.
With collaborative law, each party in the dispute retains his or her own trained collaborative lawyer to advise and assist in negotiating an agreement. All negotiations take place in “four-way” settlement meetings that both clients and both lawyers attend. Each client has legal advice and advocacy during negotiations, and each lawyer’s job includes guiding the client toward reasonable resolutions. The legal advice is an integral part of the process, but all the decisions are made by the clients.
Collaborative law can be used to negotiate divorces, non-marital custody agreements, premarital and postnuptial agreements, and agreements terminating gay and lesbian relationships. Collaborative law can also be used in probate disputes, business partnership dissolutions, employment and commercial disputes – wherever disputing parties want a contained creative, civilized process that builds in legal counsel and distributes the risk of failure to the lawyers as well as the clients. |
