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Category Archives: Collaborative Law
Re-imagining Collaborative Law, as well as dispute resolution itself
I first heard about Collaborative Law (CL) in 2002 as it began to spread around Massachusetts. It was an inspiring, rational approach to resolving disputes and it was good getting to know and learn from local people involved in teaching, promoting and using CL. It was also great to get to know like-minded lawyers nationally and beyond through joining the …
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Peacemaking: The fulfillment of the legal profession
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. – Matthew 5:9 Earlier this week my daily meditation focused on this Bible verse, spoken by Jesus as part of the Sermon on the Mount. The meditation narrative was a dialogue between the meditation author and his lawyer friend about the basic legal standard we learned in law …
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We are moving to be a part of The Collaborative Outpost
We want to share some exciting news. Our firm, Dispute Resolution Counsel, LLC, has moved to a new location at 9 Main Street, Southborough, MA. We are joining other forward-thinking law firms in a new project in which these like-minded, client-driven firms will be under one roof and part of a new place called The Collaborative Outpost. These firms at …
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Zeytoonian to present at Global Collaborative Law Council Conference in Tampa September 7-9
The 13th Annual Civil Collaborative Law Conference of the Global Collaborative Law Council (GCLC) will take place in Tampa, Florida on September 7-9, 2017. The three day conference will be hosted by the Hillsborough County Bar Association and held at their offices in Tampa. GCLC is the largest organization dedicated to the use, training and promotion of Civil Collaborative Law …
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If You Want Your “Day in Court”, Don’t Go to Court
“I want my day in court.” This is one of the most frequent desires and sentiments expressed by a new client in our initial conversation about their legal dispute. Here are some other common emotional responses when someone finds themselves in a dispute: “I want justice to be done.” “The other side has to pay for what he/she/it did to …
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Dispute Resolution for Business and Transactional Lawyers Focus of BLN June Program
Urging business and transactional lawyers to take some dispute resolution (DR) training and add some DR expertise to their toolbox of legal skills, Michael Zeytoonian and Jeffrey Fink presented a talk on DR to the Business Lawyers Network (BLN) at its monthly meeting on June 14. The meeting was hosted by Howard Zaharoff and Scott Connolly of Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton …
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The Case for Early Mediation; Part II of II
In our last blog post, the first in this two-part post about the case for early mediation, we discussed traditional, post-discovery mediation and its role as essentially an alternative to trial. In this post, we look at the kind of mediation we are proponents of – early mediation (we call ours “3-D Mediation”) – used either as an alternative to …
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The Case for Early Mediation; Part I of II
Before We Talk About Mediation and the Value of Early Mediation, Let’s Start with Two Key Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Dispute: How quickly do you want to get your dispute resolved? Is most of the relevant information needed to resolve your dispute the kind that is (a) freely available or ascertainable and (b) are the parties willing and …
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