Dear Group:
Having read all of the fore-going comments one way and the other how about
this suggestion:
Allow new lawyers to join up immediately, but with a requirement that for
the first five years they will continue to handle litigated cases as well as
collaborative cases (in those benighted jurisdictions like most of the US where
there still is a contested docket.)
OK maybe three years.
This gets the new lawyer trained from their inception to do things
collaboratively and at the same time exposed at some length to how badly the
adversarial practice handles family cases.
I believe newly minted lawyers need to see first hand how the operation of
the courts differs so radically from the theory taught in law schools, and at
the same time need to be told " yes you are correct the adversary system in
divorce court is massively screwed up, but it doesn't have to be this way."
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium Procurator
Recuperatio
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