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Resources for Collaborative Law Professionals.

Collaborative law organizations are springing up and growing all over the country. Some internet websites are:
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Advocates Network.com

A Collaborative law network of independent

professionals - primarily in Wisconsin

Minnesota Collaborative Law family law
Ohio collaborative law trained lawyers
Collaborative Lawyers of Northern California
Collaborative Negotiation Group (Sacramento)
Dallas Collaborative Law
Collaborative Divorce BC (Vancouver)
The Collaborative Law Group (San Francisco Bay Area)
Association of Collaborative Law Attorneys (San Jose)
San Francisco Collaborative Law Group
The Collaborative Law Institute of Georgia
American Institute of Collaborative Professionals (Mill Valley, California (AICP serves as an international clearing house for collaborative law groups and publishes The Collaborative Review)
Collaborative Family Law Affiliates (Pennsylvania)
Collaborative Family Lawyers Institute (Miami)
Collaborative Divorce Lawyers of Marin County (California)
Collaborative Lawyers of Oklahoma

CBS Evening News (January 23, 2001)
Findlaw

A well-structured portal to federal, state and local cases, statutes and regulations.

Harvard Program on Negotiation

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is an applied research center committee to improving the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution.

Mediate-Net

Maryland's On-Line Mediation Service, a research and demonstration project of the Program for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland School of Law and the Center for On-Line Mediation.

American Bar Association
Wisconsin Bar Association
Listserv This is a group of lawyers, judges and others who are working to expand the use of Collaborative Law into civil and business disputes.

Articles about Collaborative law principles and organizations are showing up in both the professional and mainstream media with regularity.

Collaborative Law - Collaborating with whom?

Review of March 2002 Collaborative Family Law Council of Wisconsin multidisciplinary collaborative divorce training program. Click here for full article.

Divorce Litigation - Lessons from Henry VIII and the AFLAC Duck

Explore the relationship between a person's perspectives in life and conclusions reached from that perspective as they relate to relationship paradigms, the rate of change in these models and the role of these models in family law. Click here for full article.

Life in the Trenches or What your clients really want from you.

A summary of market research conducted on client and attorney expectations. Click here for full article.

Divorce and the Eclipse^® Collaborative Practice System

A simple explanation from a Lawyer's persective. Click here for full article.

Divorce and its effect on Employees.

This Research was compiled with primarily one question in mind:

1) Why should an Employer provide Collaborative Law divorce as an option in their Employee Assistant Programs?

>To answer this I looked at two issues:

1) How divorce affects employees personally
2) How divorce affects work performance and as a result- employers Click here for full article .

If We Build It, Will They Come?

Questions about civil collaboration and the marketplace of potential clients. Click here for full article .

Talking Points are points to review- and review with anyone on your staff who might find themselves talking to a caller who has questions on the collaborative alternative - to help them in responding to the caller and to "stay on message."