The Central Ohio Academy of Collaborative Divorce Professionals (Columbus
and six contiguous counties) organized in 1998. In March of 2013 the Ohio
legislature adopted the Uniform Collaborative Law Act by incorporating its
text into the Ohio Collaborative Family Law Act. However, we have
experienced only nominal increases in COACDP membership or in the volume of
CFL cases opened by our members during the last two years.
As of December 31, 2014, our paid membership consisted of 17 lawyers, three
MHP-Coaches and three Neutral Financial Experts. After many years of
focusing our efforts to increase the volume of cases by expanding our
membership roster (with very little success), our Board of Trustees has
decided to change our focus by designing a marketing campaign directed at
the Human Resources Departments of corporations in our geographic area. Our
long range goal is to educate the HR staff regarding the benefits of the CFL
process for the corporation, and for its employees, in minimizing the
disruptive impact of divorcing employees' emotional and financial stress
while working through the restructuring of their families. Then, we hope the
HR staffs will encourage their employees to investigate the CFL process as a
first option, with litigation or "divorce by war" as the last option.
We hope there may be some other local CFL groups represented on this
listserv who already have developed a successful marketing program directed
at HR departments, and might be willing to share their experiences. We would
very much appreciate receiving any information or recommendations here (or
directly offline to my email address below) that would help us get this
project started the right way. If you do not want to take the time to draft
an email reply, please send me your phone number, and I will be happy to
call you.
Robert N. Wistner, J.D.
Collaborative Divorce Professional
5650 Blazer Parkway, Suite 100
Dublin, OH 43017
Phone: (614) 734-8354
Fax: (614) 553-7138
Email: rwistner@xxxxxxx <mailto:rwistner@xxxxxxx>
Web: www.robertnwistnerjd.com <http://www.robertnwistnerjd.com/>
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