Collaborative law, pioneered by attorney Stu Webb in the 1990s, has revolutionized family law practice by offering a non-adversarial approach to dispute resolution. For more than 30 years, this model ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made the backlog of family court worse, with some jurisdictions being shut down completely for months. Many divorcing couples rely on the courts to settle disputes without ...

Some lawyers say there's a way to a better matrimonial finale called "collaborative law." It was devised by Stu Webb, a Buddhist Minneapolis-based lawyer who wanted a different path. The biggest ...

We urge the Judiciary Committee to consider a proposal to enact the Uniform Collaborative Law Act in Connecticut. Like mediation, the practice of collaborative law has emerged primarily in the context ...

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A lot of people contemplating the end of their marriage think there’s only one way to go about it: in a messy, scorched-earth, expensive divorce. If the divorcing couple is very wealthy and co-owns ...

Mississippi became the 25th state this year to adopt rules of collaborative law, which allows people to sit together at the table to work through their differences in hopes of avoiding what could ...

Most people know divorces are complicated. When a couple seeking a divorce also happens to own a business, the level of complication can increase greatly. Just as in other divorces, both parties must ...

Most often when people think of divorce, they picture a dramatic battle that ends in a courtroom in front of a judge or jury. Christopher Farish approaches divorce in a different way, working ...

For nearly a decade, CWRU School of Law has been working with the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (CMBA) on an exciting project – the Cleveland Legal Collaborative. Former deans Berg and Scharf ...