The Law Lighthouse 3/5

Embracing Online Dispute Resolution

Mediators and Collaborative Professionals have been able to do what many courts haven't - take their dispute resolution processes online dur

Progressing Your Practice Through the Quiet Times

If your work as a family lawyer is getting a little quiet, what can you do to keep your practice progressing ahead?

Making Working From Home Work

So, you have readied yourself for working from home. Go you! Does your work day now feel and look a little like this? 6am: Slam off...

My Ready for Covid-19 Tips for Lawyers!

With Covid-19 restrictions taking hold in New Zealand and elsewhere around the world, we face the issue of how to keep providing awesome...

There's Gold in the Uncomfortable Silence!

I sat in the Collaborative Process meeting with my head pounding. One party had just voiced the immensity of grief, frustration, despair...

The Importance of Collaborative Community

Shortly before writing this, I was out for a ride on my mountain bike. I do a lot of thinking on my bike. On this particular ride, I got...

"I Want More Collaborative Process Cases!"

“I want more Collaborative Cases!” I hear you. Whether you are ten minutes or ten years out of Collaborative Practice training, if you...

Being a Collaborative Lawyer - with no Collaborative Cases (yet!)

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” - Wayne Dyer You have been to an introductory collaborative...