Category Archives: Collaborative Law

Transforming disputes into transactions via Collaborative Law

Posted on August 27, 2015 by adminDRC

When I work with people to help them resolve their disputes, I often find that they are very preoccupied with finding fault and placing blame for what has happened to trigger the dispute. We spend a lot of our energies, time and emotion – clients and lawyers alike – looking backward at what happened and seeing who we can hold …

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Zeytoonian Moderates MCLC Panel on Homeowner-Contractor Disputes

Posted on April 29, 2015 by adminDRC

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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Why Our Practice Areas Include Special Education Cases

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Michael Zeytoonian

There is a personal reason and a law practice philosophy reason why we represent clients – parents and families of special education children – in disputes involving special education matters and include this area of practice in our services. The personal reason is that I’ve gotten to know some of these people and the challenges they face when they are …

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Dispute Resolution Starts With The Sacredness Within Each Of Us

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Michael Zeytoonian

Recently I was in a group discussion triggered by a book called Start with Why, by Simon Sinek. Each of us offered responses to the question of why we do the work we do. With each response, we peeled away another layer of the onion, like a small child responds to every answer you give him or her with another …

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How You Go About Resolving Your Dispute Is Up To You

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Michael Zeytoonian

Part III in a series about tiered dispute resolution clauses One point we want to drive home with clients in this series about tiered dispute resolution clauses is that parties have the right and the need to find the right process choice. Not only do parties have options, but with good, creative advice from their lawyers, they can sometimes design …

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Applying Collaborative Law to Business Disputes

Posted on December 8, 2014 by adminDRC

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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The place for Alternative Dispute Resolution in our community life

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Michael Zeytoonian

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is widely used in the business world and in divorces. But ADR can have a far more valuable role to play in our communities and the conflicts that arise as part of our lives. Because of its flexibility, its ability t… Continue reading →

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Lessons from Jerusalem, Part II: The trouble with false assumptions

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Michael Zeytoonian

I wanted to continue the theme from my last Blog post about the Sea of Galilee and the notion of “being a Galilee” a bit with this blog post. As I am still in the glow of a religious pilgrimage I just made to Jerusalem and Israel, I want to stay wi… Continue reading →

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Lessons from Jerusalem; Part I: What attitude do we bring to our conflicts?

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Michael Zeytoonian

In August, 2014, I spent 12 days in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel. My purpose was to go on a religious pilgrimage with my wife Lisa and a group from St. James Armenian Church in Watertown, MA, the parish I grew up in. The religious and spiritual … Continue reading →

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Collaboration is something that is inside every one of us; That is why collaboration in dispute resolution is a really good idea

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Michael Zeytoonian

Collaborate: verb, to work together toward a common goal. We have all collaborated on something in our lives. In fact, you probably did at some time today. Some of us are better at it than others. I’m wondering if collaboration is also an intuitive p… Continue reading →

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