Synergy of cp and mediation
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This document discusses the synergy between collaborative law and mediation. It notes that many collaborative law groups require training in mediation, and mediators are obtaining collaborative law training. This allows professionals to use mediation within collaborative processes and provide mediation services using collaborative training. The document provides questions about how professionals describe and utilize mediation in their collaborative work, including screening clients, engagement agreements, marketing, and training staff. The goal is to understand protocols for determining when mediation could assist collaborative processes.
Synergy of cp and mediation
- 1. COLLABORATIVE LAW – MEDIATION SYNERGY INITIAL PHONE CALL COLLABORATIVE LAW MEDIATION First Client Consultation First Mediation Consultation Convening Individual Private Planning Sessions Working Sessions Working Sessions 1. Agreement Readiness 1. Agreement Readiness 2. Smoothing Bumps 2. Smoothing Bumps 3. Late Stage Strategies 3. Late Stage Strategies 4. Drafting Closing Ceremony 4. Drafting Closing Ceremony 5. Termination 5. Termination LITIGATION or MEDIATION COLLABORATIVE LAW or LITIGATION Throughout Mediation – Collaborative Professionals Available Throughout Collaborative Law – Mediators and Neutrals Available Forest S. Mosten © 2010
- 2. Mosten Mediation and Collaborative Training 11661 San Vicente Blvd. Suite 414, Los Angeles, CA 90049 Phone: 310-441-1454 Fax: 310-470-2625 www.mostenmediation.com Synergy of Collaborative Practice and Mediation Many of the most evolved Collaborative Practice Groups require their members to complete a minimum of 40 hours of Mediation Training. More and more mediators are obtaining Collaborative Training to serve as client representatives and neutrals within the Collaborative Process. In addition to the importance of learning basic conflict resolution skills and be introduced to a developed body of literature to supplement conflict resolution books, articles, and training materials, through mediation training, you can gain perspectives and tools to combine Mediation within the Collaborative Process and to use your Collaborative training to provide services to mediation parties. Using the Synergy Flow Chart as well as the Seven Ways that Collaborative Law and Mediation Intersect, attempt to answer the following questions about your knowledge and use of mediation in your Collaborative Work. 1. Do you have a set of talking points that you use to describe your preferred model of Collaborative Law to clients on your website, in phone calls, in a Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 3. marketing packet, and in your first client consultation? __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ 2. How do use express your talking points that describe Collaborative Law a. On Your Website____________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ b1. In the First Telephone Client With a Prospective Client if you conduct these phone calls yourself?___________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __ b2. If you employ a Secretary or Assistant to handle initial telephone calls,how do the talking points differ from how you handle your first telephone call? How do you train your Secretary/Assistant to handle initial client telephone calls?______________________________________ __________________________________________ Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 4. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ _ 3. What are the benefits of Collaborative Law that you discuss with your clients?________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 4. What are the risks of Collaborative Law that you discuss with your clients?________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 5. Do you describe mediation as another favored non- court processes that is available to resolve their concerns instead of or in conjunction with Collaborative Law? If so, what are your talking points to describe the benefits and risks of mediation and how it compares to Collaborative Law in respect to control, cost, speed, impact on spousal and other adult relationships, and on the children?______________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 7. Do you have a standard protocol for screening clients for Collaborative Law? If you also offer mediation services, how do does your screening for Collaborative Law differ from your screening for mediation? What are your talking points/questions for 5 criteria that you use to screen clients as to whether Collaborative Law or Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 5. Mediation is most appropriate them?_________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 8.Do you have talking points to describe the 4 most important provisions of your standard Collaborative Law Participation Agreement? If so, please set them out. How do you describe the differences of these provisions with the mediation process?_______________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ __________________________________________ 9. Do you have talking points to describe to your client at least two ways of encouraging the other party to participate in your preferred model of Collaborative Law? What talking points do you have to help your client decide if encouraging the other party to participate in mediation would be more or less favorably received and more or less lead to a satisfactory outcome for the family? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________10. Do you have talking points and protocol to estimate your fees for Collaborative Law. If so,please set them out and also how you compare this estimate with an estimate of Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 6. fees for mediation?_____________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 11. Assuming that your client opts for Collaborative Law, what is your protocol for determining whether it would help the process and be cost effective to engage a mediator at the beginning of the Collaborative Process: Before the first joint Collaborative Session, at the first joint Collaborative Session, or prior to the second joint Collaborative Session? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ___ 12. Assuming that your client opts for Collaborative Law, what is your protocol for monitoring the process determining whether it would help the process and be cost effective to engage a mediator during the Collaborative Process? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 13. Assuming that your client opts for Collaborative Law, what is your protocol for determining whether it would help the process and be cost effective to engage a Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 7. mediator if one party or attorney terminates the Collaborative Process? 14. Assuming that your client opts for mediation, what is your protocol for determining whether it would help the mediation process for you to serve as an unbundled coach outside of mediation sessions? What services do you perform in this role? 15. Assuming that your client opts for mediation, what is your protocol for determining whether it would help the mediation process for you to serve as an unbundled advisor/representative/resource in the mediation sessions? What services do you perform in this role? 16. If you also serve as a neutral mediator in some matters, if the parties start mediation unrepresented, do you have a protocol for recommending counsel to be used by the parties throughout the mediation process? If so, how do you recommend the use of Collaborative counsel and other professionals in general, or use of members of your own practice group in particular? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ __________________ Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 8. 17. If you also serve as a neutral mediator in some matters, what is your protocol for meeting with both parties before a decision has been made to opt for Collaborative Law or mediation? If the parties opt for Collaborative Law after such joint meeting, what protocol do you use to determine which party will engage you as a Collaborative Professional and how the other party will select his/her Collaborative Professional? Will another member of your practice group from a different profession attend that meeting---if so, with or without prior knowledge and consent of the parties? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ________ 18. How do your Participation Agreement, Attorney Engagement Agreement, and Mediation Engagement Agreement handle the previous questions? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 19 How does your website, brochure, and other marketing materials handle the previous questions? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012
- 9. ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 20. How do you train your Secretary/Assistant and other members of your office covered in the previous questions? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ __ Copyright Forrest S. Mosten, 2012