Category Archives: Collaborative Law

Client-centered Dispute Resolution was the Focus at ABA’s 19th Annual Conference in San Francisco

Using and designing processes that are responsive to the needs and circumstances of clients was a recurring theme for leading dispute resolution professionals during this year’s Dispute Resolution Conference of the American Bar Association (ABA), held in San Francisco from April 20-22.  Many workshops focused on the expansion of approaches for resolving disputes.  One workshop specifically focused on the creation …

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Client-centered Dispute Resolution was the Focus at ABA’s 19th Annual Conference in San Francisco

Using and designing processes that are responsive to the needs and circumstances of clients was a recurring theme for leading dispute resolution professionals during this year’s Dispute Resolution Conference of the American Bar Association (ABA), held in San Francisco from April 20-22.  Many workshops focused on the expansion of approaches for resolving disputes.  One workshop specifically focused on the creation …

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Resolving a Dispute is like Traveling…

Resolving a Dispute is Like Traveling, Writing a Business Plan, or Choosing a Course of Medical Treatment: If you take the wrong road, you won’t get the result you want. My friend Liz Ferris, a marketing consultant who works with lawyers around the world, has often given us this simple but often overlooked advice: “If you want to achieve your …

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Replacing the Affordable Care Act; How to NOT Resolve Disputes

President Trump and his team gave us a quick course on how not to resolve a dispute in their efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare).  Their effort and its shortcomings help to show the importance of four key ingredients to approaching dispute resolution to get a good result. Most Americans agree that the ACA has shortcomings …

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Beyond Arbitration and Mediation: Designing the Dispute Resolution Process to Fit the Situation

Posted: October 25, 2016 in the Boston Bar Journal. We live in a specialized world, one in which access to information is so overwhelming that there literally is “an app for that” to satisfy even the most specific and narrow of needs. Yet, until recently, the legal profession’s response to the increasingly tailored needs of our clients has been to …

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Zeytoonian & Faxon provide collaborative law training program in Holland

Holland’s Collaborative Law Association hosted a three-day Collaborative Law Training for lawyers, financial advisors and executive coaches from March 17 through March 19 in the resort town of Nunspeet, The Netherlands.  The training was held at the Villa Vennendal in Nunspeet. Two Massachusetts lawyers, Michael Zeytoonian and Paul Faxon, were invited by the Dutch Association of Collaborative Professionals to present …

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Active exchange on mediation and ADR at Suffolk Law School

Three experienced ADR practitioners recently joined Suffolk University School of Law Professor Ericka Gray for panel presentation on mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) attended by second and third year Suffolk Law students.  The program is part of a series of presentations offered to the area law schools by the MBA’s ADR Committee. Christine Yurgelun, Jeffrey Stern …

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Zeytoonian presents on Collaborative Law in Washington, D.C.

Over 500 Collaborative lawyers, mental health professionals and financial advisors from all across the United States, Canada, and 21 nations gathered in Washington, D.C. for the 16th Annual Forum of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) during the week of October 14-18, 2015 at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel.  The Forum is the largest annual gathering of Collaborative Professionals and …

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Zeytoonian Presents on Business Collaborative Law at Annual MCLC Training

MCLC Trains more Collaborative Lawyers in New England Since Collaborative Law was introduced in Massachusetts in 2000 and the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council (MCLC) was formed, over 500 lawyers in Massachusetts have been trained in Collaborative Law (CL) and how to use it to resolve disputes without litigation and without going to court. The MCLC added to the numbers of …

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Collaborative Law Growing in Tampa Bay: Training attracts 80 lawyers and professionals

The Tampa Bay Rays may not be able to get a new baseball stadium any time soon, but the use of Collaborative Law is growing in the Tampa, Florida area.  Over 80 people – lawyers, financial planners and mental health professionals took part in an Introductory Collaborative Practice Training in Tampa, Florida on September 11 and 12, 2015.  The training …

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