Collaborative law is a new dispute resolution model in which both parties retain separate attorneys whose only job is to help them settle the dispute. No one may go to court, or even threaten to do so. If that should occur, the collaborative law process terminates and both attorneys are disqualified from any further involvement in the case.
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Attorneys and clients work together to create win-win solutions for all. The collaborate law attorneys are duty-bound to maintain normal, primary allegiance and duty to their own clients. However, their mindset takes into consideration that the clients' best interests can also be served by trying to keep a handle on some of the legal work that is normally done. Collaborative lawyering appears to be taking hold in California and is still relatively unknown it Illinois. This website contains legal information, and not legal advice.