The couple of attorneys in our group had an extensive dialog with the
relevant ethics committee and they would know better than I.
But I can say that there is no staff sharing per se and, of course, no
revenue sharing; simply marketing cost sharing. The group will be leasing
space in a generic executive suite (www.regus.com <http://www.regus.com/> )
and each party will use the generic office services as needed.
The central idea is to have all group members refer prospective
collaborative clients by appointment to the group office that will be
staffed, as needed, by one attorney, one neutral coach and one neutral
financial. At this time, all of our group members intend to also retain
their current offices. Our intention is to have our group members begin to
lease personal office space directly from the executive suite as demand for
our collaborative process grows. Once we have a solid marketing presence,
which will include a state-of-the-art group website that's now in process,
we intend to approach our targeted employee assistance programs.
The referral interview is aimed at having the "neutral" coach present to
bring the couple directly into the collaborative process at the time of
initial interview, if possible, by signing the coach's collaborative
agreement. From there, the attorneys would be engaged as well as the
financial neutral. Our driving motivation for using this structure is to
pull the neutral coach into the process right from the very beginning so as
to control the whole collaborative process to final dissolution.
Don Blythe mba, cpa, cdfa
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