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first of all I’ve been doing family law
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for 35 years been practicing exclusively
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family law and so I have a lot of
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experience there and I am also a
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certified family law specialist but I’ve
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been involved in collaborative law and
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supporting it and passionate about it
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since the since the mid90s before people
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really knew what collaborative law was
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we started a little group in Sacramento
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called the collabor of negotiation group
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and it was just uh at that time lawyers
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who were trying to to do family law in a
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Kinder more
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transparent way with integrity and and
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and openness and that evolved uh to what
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it is today which is really a a a solid
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framework which is backed by statutory
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law and I was involved in that statutory
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law in both the writing of it and the
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the creation of it which legitimized
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collaborative law in California so we
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actually have a a statute that actually
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legitimizes it in addition to that I am
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the President of the Sacramento
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collaborative Practice Group and also I
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am uh involved with the cpal which is
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the state-based collaborative Practice
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Group and the iacp which is the
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international collaborative Practice
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Group so I’m really passionate about it
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I’ve been doing collaborative cases for
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a long time and I’m constant L looking
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for ways to improve the process for
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parties and make it more satisfactory
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and efficient for them and uh for their
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families