Last month, Womble Bond Dickinson launched “Doing Well by Doing Good,” a thought leadership series focused on ways in which environmental and social governance impact business. The following article ...

Parties unfamiliar with the legal system shudder at the thought of seeing their life in its most personal context, displayed on a witness stand before a judge and a courtroom full of peering ...

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 ...

South Florida is famously litigious, but a new family law firm in the region aims to use a recently established form of alternative dispute resolution to resolve family matters outside the courtroom.

Is having an opponent our way of life? Is litigation an efficient and responsible means of resolving disagreements? Is advocating for a client, to the detriment of the “other” side, acceptable? Or, is ...

After 14 years of marriage, Marla McKinney wanted a divorce, but without her and her husband destroying each other and with some family ties intact. She'd had a traditional divorce - fighting it out ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...