Litigation is without a doubt what most practitioners use and recommend to their clients as the 'best, tried and tested, certain, appealable'  family law problem solving tool.   Do you offer your clients other options to help solve their legal problems, like mediation and/or arbitration? Or are these methods to be "boo hooed" as not 'real' problem solving solutions, with too many drawbacks? Are you a lawyer, who is so risk adverse that you don't like to try new things, 'don't fix what aint broke' type of mentality,  and you continue to practice with exactly the same methods as you always have, without any thought, action or contemplation of any other effective ways to solve your clients problems? Or are you a lawyer, who views the changes in society and law, and likes to engage in forward thinking, innovation with contemplation of the long court delays and costs of litigation and therefore willing to offer other methods to solve their clients matters? Or do you feel anxious when … [Read more...]