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Ethical Obligations for Clients with Mental Health Impairments
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Navigating Stormy Parenting Plans - Process Over Chaos
As lawyers it’s easy to get myopic and wrapped up in the chaos, mechanics and technicalities of dispute resolution. Divorce basically deals with money matters and the parenting plan. For financials, we simply collect income and assets, liabilities and debts. Then we shove the numbers into a magical 3rd party software program and we get what we get. For the Parenting Plan? Not so much. This is more art than science. Maybe the parenting plan terminates after high school graduation. But how the parents handle the residential schedule, decision making, and dispute resolution process will have a significant impact on the entire family for decades to come. Because of this, we want our client focused on “process and controllables”.
As ‘ol Ben Franklin said, “If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.” Same strategy applies today when dealing with parenting plan conflict. Our job is to help uncover the opposing party’s interest and pivot negotiations from positional arguments to focusing on the underlying reasons. Also, our job is to prepare clients to anticipate and better cope with their ex-spouse’s bad behavior. No client can control the ex-spouse, but every client can and should control their own response.
This course will inform new lawyers and remind seasoned lawyers how to view the parenting plan from the client’s perspective. Our representation of the client might last 18 months. But for the client the parenting plan is an infinite, life-long game after our job is done. We want to both counsel the client and provide a framework to assist them in their day-to-day interaction (over the coming decades) with the ex. This include interest-based negotiations, impasse and options outside of a fully-agreed to parenting plan, common cognitive bias traps in divorce, and providing a toolbox for thriving…or at least maintaining self control during toxic parenting plan negotiations.
Lastly, we negotiate in our professional and personal lives every day. Importantly, while this course is focused on managing “process and controllables” in the parenting plan, the concepts and strategies are fairly universal for general dispute resolution.
AGENDA:- Introduction
- Negotiation Preparation
- Negotiation Table
- Post-Negotiation
- Other Options
- Cognitive Bias
- Toolbox
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Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
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Estate Administration for Personal Injury Attorneys
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Virtual Isolation: Is Hyperconnectivity Helping or Harming the Legal Professional?
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New Hampshire 2 Credit Ethics Bundle Courses: Anti Money Laundering for Business Lawyers (1 Credit) Entity Formation 101 (1 Credit) Athlete Agency Law (1.25 Credits) Banking for the Non-Banking Attorney (1.5 Credits) Copyright for Artists (1.5 Credits) How to Cross Examine a Medical Witness (1 Credit) Principles of a Successful Jury Trial (1 Credit) Ethically Keeping Your Clients Trust Even When Things go Wrong (1 Ethics Credit) Preparing Clients for Deposition: An Investment in Performance (1 Credit) Cannabis Law (1 Credit) Ethics of Business Law (1.25 Ethics Credit)
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North Dakota 15 Credit Bundle with 3 Ethics Bundle Courses Include: Bundle Courses: Criminal Mitigation: Pre-Pleas & Pre-Sentencing Strategies (1 General Credit) Borderline Personality Disorder: Pre-Plea & Pre-Sentencing Mitigation Strategies (1.25 General Credits) Is That a Worker or an Employee? Questions & Answers on Worker Classification (1.25 General Credits) No One Makes It Out Unscathed: The Effects of Personal Trauma and Stress On Our Lives (1 Ethics Credit) Intermediate Topics: Title IX (1.5 General Credits) Pre-sentence Investigation (PSI) Critique: Mitigation as Counter Strategy in Child-Pornography Cases (1.25 Credits) Anti Money Laundering for Business Lawyers (1.25 General Credits) Entity Formation 101 (1.25 General Credits) The Art and Science of Hourly Billing (1 Credit) A Lawyer's Guide to Raising Capital (1.25 General Credits) Philosophy of a Business Legal Counselor (1 Credit) Ethics Compliance for Solo Practitioners (1.25 Ethics Credits) Introduction to Non-Profit Law (1.25 General Credits)
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Ohio 24 Credit Bundle with 2.5 Ethics/Attorney Conduct - All Courses Approved in Ohio Bundle Courses Include: Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 1 (1.5 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 2 (1.25 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 3 (1 Credit) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1 Credit) Immigration Basics: Coming to America and Staying (1 Credit) The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.5 Credits)
Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Credits)
Ethical Issues - Pro Bono Representation: Help the Profession Help Others (1 Attorney Conduct Credit) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1 Attorney Conduct Credit) Intervention Strategies for Helping the Legal Professional (1 Attorney Conduct Credit) Information Law Firms Collect and Store – What to do in the Event of a Cyber Breach? (1.25 Credits) Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (1 Credit) Closing Arguments (1.75 Credits) Overview of the Freedom of Information Act (2 Credits) Opening Statement As a Story - 101 (1 Credit) Opening Statements As a Story - 102 (1.5 Credits) Anatomy of a Civil Tax Controversy (1.5 Credits) Technology & Bias Spreading It And Stopping It (1 Credit) Basics of Landlord/Tenant law for Ohio (1 Credit) -
Mississippi 6 Credit Bundle with Ethics - All Courses Approved in Mississippi Bundle Courses Include: The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.5 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part (1.5 Credits)
Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Credits)
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Ohio Attorney Conduct Bundle: 3.0 Attorney Conduct/Ethics Credits Course Type: On-demand Self Study Audio Program Credits: 3.0 Credit Hours Bundle Courses: Ethical Issues - Pro Bono Representation: Help the Profession Help Others (1 Attorney Conduct Credit) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1 Attorney Conduct Credit) Intervention Strategies for Helping the Legal Professional (1 Attorney Conduct Credit)
