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How to Help Your Client Handle the “Friends and Family” Chorus
In stressful times, it is normal to lean on your friends and family for help and advice. But what happens if their expectations for your ...
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Business Sense
Three Email Templates You Can Use To Network
One way to increase the number of collaborative cases you bring in is to network with other professionals. If you want to network with other ...
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Collaborative Divorce
Is Collaborative Ever Appropriate When a Client Has Borderline Personality Disorder?
Is Collaborative Ever Appropriate When a Client Has Borderline Personality Disorder? Colette didn’t trust anyone. She needed to be in control. She feared abandonment. She ...
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Business Sense
Choosing Your Collaborative Team
Assuming that you have a say in choosing any of your collaborative teammates, what considerations do you think should come into play? Do you consider ...
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Business Sense
What Kind of Counselor Am I?
I’m a counselor of law. But the longer I’m involved in collaborative practice, the more I find myself feeling more like a marriage counselor. While ...
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Business Sense
How To Create a Collaborative Law Practice
To create a collaborative law practice, start by acting collaboratively towards your staff. Treat them as you would any other collaborative professional, whether he is ...
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Divorce Advice
Collateral Damage
When I married my husband, he had already been married once before to someone else . . . and divorced. Early on, I remember him ...
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Business Sense
How To “Sell” the Other Spouse on Collaborative
I hate to use the word “sell” when discussing the marketing of my professional services. It sounds so dirty, like I’m trying to put one ...
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Collaborative Divorce
Embrace Change
Collaborative divorce offers families the opportunity to work with a team of professionals to negotiate a resolution that meets the highest goals and interests of ...
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