I'm getting queries from financial and mental health professionals about
this event, so I want to clarify what the advanced training does and doesn't
offer.
The trainers are both collaborative lawyers; there are no trainers from
other professions at this event.
The intent is to focus intensively on the lawyers as "gatekeepers," and also
as holders of the dispute/conflict resolution paradigm that will shape the
negotiations process. The work will aim first at deepening the
understanding of the differences between dispute resolution and conflict
resolution, and how the lawyers' nuanced understanding of those differences
shape and limit what may be possible for the clieints to aim for and to
achieve, even in a collaborative divorce team case. Secondly, the work will
focus on how this deeper and more nuanced understanding can be integrated
into, and transform, how lawyers handle the "informed choice" or"buy-in"
phase of the collaborative process, with an intention to help participants
see how they can do a better job of meeting lawyers' emerging ethical duties
regarding informed consent, while at the same time enhancing the likelihood
that clients will want collaborative representation, and enhancing the
conflict resolution tools that are laid in place at the front end of the
case. Thirdly, the work will focus on building a more well informed
understanding of interdisciplinary team practice, as it plays out in the
informed choice phase between lawyer and client, again with the intention
that lawyers will both do a better job of meeting ethical requirements while
at the same time increasing client "buy-in" to collaborative divorce team
representation. And, finally, we will spend quite a lot of time on building
stronger collaborative lawyering skills during the midgame phase of
negotiations, including when apparent impasse arises.
The roleplays are intended to focus on enhancing the lawyer skills that are
the limiting factor, even in interdisciplinary practice groups, in expanding
client choice of collaborative divorce, and the limiting factor also in
effective collaboration during rough spots in the process. There will also
be case conferencing to help participants learn from challenges in prior
cases.
As you can see, the course is aimed at the needs of lawyers but is intended
to have a powerful effect on interdisciplinary practice back home in the
participants' practice communities. If members of financial or mental
health professions want to attend, they would certainly enrich the dialogue
but need to understand that it is not a team training and that the
interactive components are structured to teach lawyers what we are now
seeing is the main need in many practice groups in order to take the work to
the next level.
Thanks for all the interest---
best, Pauline
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Pauline Tesler <phtesler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is a skills-building program for lawyers that includes considerable
material about interdisciplinary practice.
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Siri <siri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does this phrase: "advanced collaborative legal practice" mean it is
for
attorneys only, or is it a multi-disciplinary training? I can't find any
information on the Straus website. Siri Gottlieb
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Thanks very much for the factual upgrade, Chip. I wasn't aware of that,
and
it may be that the current head of the institute may not have been aware
when he proposed this offering that there had been one previously. My
hope
is that we will have so much interest in this workshop that the Straus
Institute will want to keep collaborative practice on the menu and
expand
the offerings. They promote their events worldwide to a very broad and
"high quality" adr mailing list. Hope to see many of you there; it will
be
good to see you in Malibu, Chip. Best, PHT
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For those of you who want a high level training in, what is truly aJune
world-class setting, this is the ticket. For the record, however, the
first ever collaborative workshop put on by the Straus Institute was
25-27, 2002 and was the product of having to convince Randy Lowry,then
theemerging
head of Straus, that they needed to make room for this rapidly
movement in their panoply of dispute resolution programs. For thosecountry, I
interested and energetic participants who came from around the
felt the need to honor their participation in the first evercollaborative
program offered by the Straus Institute. That said, for those of youwho
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World-ClassDate: 4/3/2008 10:21:03 AM
Subject: [CollabLaw] Advanced Collaborative Law Training at
Location and Institutionoffered
Dear Friends,
The first-ever advanced collaborative family law training to be
bydispute
the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Law Schoolwill
take place on June 19-21, at the campus of Pepperdine Law School inMalibu,
California. I am writing to suggest that you consider attending thisevent.
The Straus Institute is considered by many to be the foremost
trainersresolution teaching and study program in North America. Theirsemi-annual
professional skills programs (in June at the Malibu campus and inOctober
in
Woodstock, Vermont) bring together leading dispute resolution
fromin
North America for two and one half days of intensive skills training
law.mediation --and now, for the first time, in advanced collaborative
with
The quality of this program is topnotch. David Fink will co-train
methe
in this Advanced Collaborative Family Law course. We believe this is
highlyfirst-ever opportunity to work intensively with a small group of
andexperienced collaborative legal practitioners over a period of two
oneopportunities
half days. In the evening, the program includes meals and
toseminars
socialize on campus with trainers and practitioners from around theworld
who are participating in this and the other dispute resolution
andProgram.
workshops being offered as part of the June Professional Skills
units
Our Advanced Collaborative Family Law course will offer eighteen
ofspecialist
continuing legal education credit and certified family law
limited,credit, including credits in legal ethics and in psychological and
counseling aspects of family law. Enrollment will be strictly
andexperience
all participants are expected to have substantial prior case
inthere
collaborative law. In addition to presentation and video material,
andwill be substantial roleplaying as well as seminar-style discussion
casehighest
conferencing. We expect the learning environment to be intense,
thequality, and very enjoyable.
The Pepperdine campus at Malibu must surely be a top contender for
mostabout a
beautiful law school campus on the planet. It occupies a coastalhillside
overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway and the beaches of Malibu,
facilitiestwenty minute drive north of Santa Monica/Los Angeles. The
areor to
first-rate.
If you want to take your understandings and skills to a new level,
frompractice advanced techniques and skills with experienced colleagues
ayou.
broad range of communities and legal cultures, this course is for
collaborativegoing
Or, if you simply would like to earn continuing education credits by
to a gorgeous location and immersing yourself in advanced
discusslegal practice, rather than listening yet again to talking heads
whoappellate decisions, consider joining us in Malibu.
This course may be of particular interest to European colleagues,
cancollaborative
combine a holiday in the Malibu/Santa Monica/Los Angeles area with
continuing education of the highest caliber in advanced
www.straus.pepperdine.edupractice skills, at relatively low cost (given the dollar to Euroratio).
For further information or to register, go to:
,ativedivorcenews.com/
or call Lori Rushford at 310.506.6342.
Looking forward to working with many of you in Malibu in June!
--
Pauline H. Tesler
Tesler, Sandmann & Fishman
163 Miller Avenue, Suite 4
Mill Valley, California 94941
Telephone: (415)383-5600
Facsimile: (415)383-5675
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