The complete guide to mediation : how to effectively represent your clients and expand your family law practice /
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| Author / Creator: | Mosten, Forrest S., 1947- author. |
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Imprint: | Chicago, Illinois : ABA, Section of Family Law, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | xxvi, 326 pages : forms ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10328539 |
Table of Contents:
- Eleven questions most commonly asked about representing clients in mediation
- Expanding your practice by representing clients in mediation
- Family lawyer as dispute resolution manager
- Mediation confidentiality
- Representing clients in court-ordered mediation
- Using a limited scope approach (unbundling) to represent clients outside and inside the mediation room
- Representing clients in mediation with a collaborative lawyering approach
- Setting up the mediation
- Building an agreement your client can live with
- Reaching agreement
- Reviewing and drafting mediated agreements
- Preventing future conflict
- Be a peacemaker
- Glossary
- Appendix A. Model standards of practice for family and divorce mediation (2000)
- Appendix B. Highlights in divorce mediation research
- Appendix C. Key California mediation confidentiality cases
- Appendix D. Phrases for active listening and to prevent miscommunication
- Appendix E. Divorce mission statement
- Appendix F. Sample agreement for consulting attorney services
- Appendix G. Sample estimate of consulting lawyer fee
- Appendix H. Notice of limited scope representation
- Appendix I. Factors affecting appropriateness of mediation, collaborative law, and cooperative law procedures
- Appendix J. Client information about collaborative representation
- Appendix K. Sample letter to client discussing risks of going into mediation
- Appendix L. Sample mediator's contract
- Appendix M. Sample estimate of mediation expenses
- Appendix N. Sample agenda for divorce mediation
- Appendix O. Sample client handout : my role as your collaborative lawyer
- Appendix P. Sample agreement for attorney disqualification in mediation
- Appendix Q. Sample dispute resolution protocol and mediation clause
- Appendix R. Personal legal wellness checkup and protocol
- Appendix S. Required statutory forms for financial disclosure (California)
- Appendix T. Court endorsement of ADR (San Mateo County)
- Appendix U. Letter from presiding judge of Family Law Division endorsing mediation (English and Spanish)
- Appendix V. Making your office a classroom for client education.
