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one piece of advice that i almost always
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give to my clients is that they cannot
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control the other side
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they can only control themselves and
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some of these situations can feel very
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out of control so
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encouraging clients you can control your
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own behavior and i often encourage
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people to keep in mind the acronym
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biff biff which stands for brief
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informative
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focused and friendly and keeping their
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communications with the other side
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brief informative focused and friendly
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to kind of encourage them to have
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respectful communications with the other
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side
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yeah so some of my personal background
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that
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i incorporate into my current practice
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it was an experience that happened while
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i was in still in law school and then
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the beginning of my my practicing
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career was my parents both got sick at
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the same time became disabled
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and after a long struggle with them and
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kind of going through the suffering
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with them ultimately they they both
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passed away and this happened over the
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course of a few years but
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from that experience i can’t help but
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bring that into my practice it informs
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how i relate
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to my clients
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because i experience the suffering with
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my parents and i experienced a loss
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when they passed away and my clients
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whether they’re going through a divorce
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or
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or a death of a loved one they’re also
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going through a loss and so i think that
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that
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that experience that i had allows me to
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be authentically
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involved
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with my clients and really try to you
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know be compassionate for what they’re
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going through and how they’re feeling
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i have had a number of leadership
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positions in the community and related
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to the bar as well currently i am
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serving on the membership committee for
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the afcc which is the association of
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family and conciliation courts which is
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an organization that
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really is designed to support families
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going through conflict i am also on the
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board for stepping stone which is an
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organization that
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helps people going experiencing
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homelessness so i’ve been serving on
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that board for about a year and a half
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and then i’m also the current president
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of my rotary club in rapids rotary
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for for the if you don’t know what that
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is it’s a service organization or our
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mission is service above self and so we
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fundraise and we find a need in a
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community and we need it whether we’re
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meeting it financially or
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with with our own hands and showing up
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for projects
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St. Paul, MN family law attorney Letty Van Ert shares the one piece of advice do you repeatedly give to your clients and discusses her service to the community.
