I am pleased to have the permission of Madison, Wisconsin attorney Linda Roberson of the firm Balisle & Roberson to publish lock, stock and barrel her most thought provoking comparison of collaborative and cooperative family law.Read More

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued formal opinion 07-447 on August 9, 2007. It views collaborative practice as akin to a limited engagement with the client. The opinion reminds us that the attorneys’ professional obligations of due diligence remain. Practice tip: Don’t use your standard employment contract for a...Read More

The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals has released this response to the recent Colorado Ethics Opinion prohibiting the use of four-way agreements in collaborative practice. Thanks to the Family Law News Blog for this update.Read More

From the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals: On February 10, 2007, the Council of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution voted to create a Collaborative Law Committee.Read More

The Colorado Bar Association Ethics committee has issued an opinion, not yet formally published, that collaborative family law is per se unethical when the agreement calls for disqualification of the attorneys if the matter must be litigated. Further, a client cannot validly consent in advance to the withdrawal of his/her lawyer in the event the...Read More

Georgia Family Law Blog has a nice series of posts on collaborative lawRead More

Collaborative divorce offers parties privacy, one of the reasons Roy Disney (of the Disney fortune) is choosing the collaborative process, according to this article in The Republican. This, most likely, will be all that the public hears in the media about the divorce until the Disneys’ final judgment is entered in court some months from...Read More

Collaborative Family Law Center Announced by Chief Judge in New York City is the post by Pauline Tessler at Collaborative Divorce Newsblog, in which she quotes from a New York Times story earlier this week. In New York Divorce Report, Daniel E.Read More

New article about Collaborative Divorce, in ABA Young Lawyers Division newsletter, summarizes key features of this important new divorce process and Want to know what young lawyers are saying about collaborative divorce? are two new posts by Pauline Tessler in at Family Law News Blog.Read More

Last chance to register for tomorrow’s collaborative advanced training! Info and press release below. Even if you cannot attend the seminar, the public is invited to meet Pauline Tessler and Peggy Thompson at Sullivan University, 5-7 pm. Here are the details: Download kcfn_networking_event_poster.pdfRead More