In our St. Louis, MO group, we lowered our attorney practice requirement from
five to three years. We have a similar requirement for our mental health and
financial professionals. The difference to me, however, is that the experience
we are requiring our collaborative attorneys to obtain will be acquired through
the litigation model. Then we ask these experienced attorneys, who now have
litigation tactics and adversarial techniques in their skill set, to put those
aside and become collaborative negotiators. Since the legal profession is the
one most likely to require a paradigm shift, I think the court-model experience
requirement is counter-productive for lawyers.
Yvonne Homeyer, Attorney at Law
Center for Collaborative Law and Mediation
yvonne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.stlouisfamilylaw.com
University Club Tower
1034 S. Brentwood, Suite 1920
St. Louis, MO 63117
(314) 863-3321
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