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Legal Informed Consent includes knowing your legal process options

“An educated consumer is our best customer.” That was the memorable tagline for Syms, a successful men’s clothing retail store in the New York area years ago. It struck a chord for many reasons. A business that wants its customers to be educated on its products or services reflects honesty, transparency and a shared desire for quality and value. It …

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Problem Solving – Where Special Forces and Dolphins Find Common Ground

Dolphins are natural problem solvers. The habits and intelligence of dolphins was the focus of a story in a recent issue of National Geographic (May 2015), and a photo in the story caught my attention. It pictured two bottlenose dolphins underwater off the Florida Keys. Each one had its snout in a rope handle at opposite ends of a PVC …

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The Power of Lawyers’ Trusting Each Other

One of my early experiences as a litigator in New York came at a court conference on a case I had in Bronx Supreme Court. For those of you who don’t practice in New York, the Supreme Court there is the trial court (I guess it’s an ego thing) and the Bronx courthouse is anything but supreme. With long daily …

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Zeytoonian Moderates MCLC Panel on Homeowner-Contractor Disputes

Using Collaborative Law to resolve multi-party homeowner-contractor disputes was the focus of a special program at the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council’s (MCLC) annual meeting on March 12, 2015 at the Wellesley Community Center in Wellesley, MA. A team of ten Collaborative Law professionals and attorneys presented a case scenario in which the parties to a homeowner–contractor-subcontractor dispute opted to use …

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Applying Collaborative Law to Business Disputes

The Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council presents an advance training in Applying Collaborative Law to Business Disputes. Friday December 12, 2014 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm McLane Law Firm 300 Trade Center, Suite 7000 Woburn, MA 01801 (For GPS purposes, use 100 Sylvan Road)  If you are interested in advancing your Collaborative Law training as it applies to business law – …

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