Ways to Get Involved
Welcome to CLI! What’s next? Here are just a few ideas of where to go from here.
GET TRAINED
- Sign up for one of the trainings offered each year
- Review the Protocols
- Review specific forms, such as the participation agreements
- Read Pauline Tesler’s book, “Collaborative Law”
MARKET
- Log on to the website and update your individual profile
- Order your Collaborative Law brochures
- Call or meet a member
- Attend monthly regional group meetings
GET YOUR FIRST COLLABORATIVE CASE
- Regard every new client as a potential collaborative case
- Educate them about the advantages–give them a brochure
- Encourage them to direct their spouse to the website
- Network, network, network–make sure your usual referral sources learn about collaborative law from you, and learn enough to describe it to potential referrals; ask referral sources whether the people they serve would benefit from a divorce process which ~ (describe the characteristics of collaborative law); leave them brochures
AFTER YOUR FIRST COLLABORATIVE CASE
- Debrief your client–what worked and what didn’t
- What were the unknowns and how well did you address them?
- What were their fears and how well did you quiet them?
- Did the process perform as advertised?
- What didn’t you do that would have helped them
- Debrief the other lawyer
- Note the problems and what skills addressed them successfully
- Call or meet another member or your practice partner
