Effectively Representing Clients in Family Mediation

Praise for Effectively Representing Clients in Family Mediation

"As a psychologist I've found this book invaluable for both my own mediation practice and working with lawyers. This book makes an enormous contribution to the field of family mediation."
-Robin M. Deutsch, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Mediator, Professor William James College (ret.), Associate Clinical Professor Harvard Medical School (ret.), Newton, MA

"A masterpiecea simply stunning case for creating a lucrative, honorable, and sustainable practice representing clients in family mediation. The authors dazzle us with the massive benefits for attorneys and clients and chart out an unprecedented step-by-step manual chock-full of the precise concepts, skills, and practice tips that can change attorney life as we know it and create a more peaceful world. If the authors' approach to family lawyering becomes widespread, the profession will become what we dreamed it could be when we decided to go to law schoola world where attorneys are peacemakers who profoundly help people and family law attorneys support parents and their children's brightest future."
-Michael Aurit, Co-Founder of The Aurit Center for Divorce Mediation, President of The Academy of Professional Family Mediators (2019-2022), and Adjunct Professor at The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law

"As mediation for family disputes grows in popularity it is essential to have a comprehensive guide for family lawyers on how to effectively advise and represent their clients throughout the resolution process. This incredibly helpful and insightful book, by three legends in the field, distills the essential insights into an accessible and well-designed volume. The "bonus chapter" on online mediation from Susan Guthrie (itself growing rapidly) is icing on the cake."
-Colin Rule, CEO mediate.com

"Effectively Representing Clients in Family Mediation is essential reading for every attorney who wants to help clients resolve their family law disputes without availing the court system. The authors have pulled together both the theoretical and practical into one book, answering every question about how to effectively practice law as a Peacemaker. The world needs more Peacemakers and this amazing book will help us do our best work."
-Brian Galbraith, Collaborative Attorney, Mediator, Trainer, President of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Barrie, Ontario (Canada)

"With this book Mosten, Scully, and Traum provide everything legal practitioners need to expand the legal services they offer while at the same time improving their job satisfaction and financial bottom line. A fabulous resource."
-Kevin R. Scudder, JD, Secretary, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Chair, Collaborative Law Committee, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, Seattle, WA

"In Effectively Representing Clients in Family Mediation, Woody 'Forrest' Mosten, Hon. Elizabeth Potter Scully, and Lara Traum draw on over a century of combined professional experience to offer an extraordinarily generous gift to the peacemakers (and future peacemakers) of the family law community. This book is a leading-edge treatise on both the art and science of enlightened family mediation. The authors start by placing the current state of mediation (as well collaboration and multi-disciplinary divorce work) in an evolutionary context. They go on to carefully deconstruct the process of successfully shepherding clients through the emotionally fraught, practically complex, and legally rigorous transition from one household to twofrom our earliest contacts with clients through to the signing of their Agreement and beyond. Familiar ideas such as 'unbundling' are given new life. Less familiar concepts are skillfully introduced and integra

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