I am a coach and case manager in Boulder, CO (new to this listserv). All of
the coaches and financial folks in our Collab group have email and many of us
have faxes, too. In my role as case manager, I try to keep everyone focused
and informed with email communication between sessions. We have developed a
protocol where we send almost every note to everyone on the team, with very few
reserved just for the professional team. (I have one case, though, where the
wife doesn't use email, so I have to make sure to call her and keep her
up-to-date.)
There seems to be a desire, on the cases I've worked, however, to not attempt
to resolve very much outside of sessions, except for sharing things we've
learned, etc. I've heard of other cases only meeting once and then resolving
things through email, but the concern, here, seems to be that this can turn
into something that looks like the adversarial approach of "lobbing of
positions back and forth". Can anyone comment on this?
Thanks,
Becky
Honey Hastings <honeyhastings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What have you learned/remembered/intuited recently? Please post a
tip/insight.
Email-I'm using email almost exclusively for between-meeting
communication. What about you? For case X, my assistant set up an
email group with both clients & both lawyers, including my home
email. We use it for notes (minutes), agenda, confirming meeting
times/dates, draft agreements, upgrades to drafts, etc. Yesterday, I
got the confirmation that the case is settled this way when the other
client said ok to the last bit of revised language.
But in some cases, where at least one client is emotionally unable to
handle this, we use the traditional lawyers-as-gatekeepers-of-info
method.
What do the multidisciplinary folks do about email? The mental health
folks in NH don't seem to have emails (or even fax).
Fees Question -Is anyone talking about attorneys fees in the case? I
certainly find it works better to have some joint source of fees. In
the recently settled case, that has led to my learning that the other
lawyer's hourly rate is subtantially higher than mine. Relative
experience in CP (or law)is not the basis of the difference.
Honey Hastings
Wilton, NH
honeyhastings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Becky DeGrossa, MA
Center for Healthy Divorce
2760 29th Street, Suite 2C
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 443-0140
www.CenterForHealthyDivorce.com
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