The complete guide to mediation : how to effectively represent your clients and expand your family law practice / Forrest S. Mosten, Elizabeth Potter Scully.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.
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.
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