Gary,
You've touched on something that I have long considered an ignored
essential to Collaborative Practice. That being the assessment of the
professionals, particularly the attorneys, for doing this kind of work.
I would love to see some kind of even informal assessment tool be
developed. Something, other than 'gut' or 'faith in mankind' that might
help us to discern which individual professionals to persistently encourage
to give CP a try and which we should actively support in continuing to do
litigation. Something to help us, as you put it, "to ascertain their
degree of litigiousness and likelihood for holding their own client
accountable to the helping process.... [or] that the lawyer may be an
intervening variable adding to the escalation of the dispute".
Since you have a head start in that you have begun to actively do just
that..... I'd like to conscript you to start us off. ;-)
So, if you wouldn't mind? What questions do you ask? What answers move
your judgement to yay or nay?
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Gary Direnfeld gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[CollabLaw] <CollabLaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many thanks for the kind replies and words of encouragement.
Like others who are trained collaboratively yet who work with many others
who
haven't been trained, I try to run my files collaboratively. As such, I
try to
get the lawyers on board with a common understanding of the problem and to
assure we are pulling in the same direction.
For about a year now I have been "assessing" the lawyers if they are
unknown to
me at the time of referral. By that I mean, before accepting a referral, I
speak with the lawyers individually to ascertain their degree of
litigiousness
and likelihood for holding their own client accountable to the helping
process.
If I come to the belief that the lawyer may be an intervening variable
adding
to the escalation of the dispute, I will decline the referral.
Fighting doesn't produce durable results. Entrenchment in positional
posturing
doesn't lend itself to successful resolution of issues. I don't want to be
a
party to a process that may exacerbate conflict in relationships and bring
harm
to children.
Best,
Gary
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