The Cable
July-August, 2004
What if lawyers
were peace-makers, problem-solvers and healers of conflict?
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Contents:
1
Collaborative Law
2 Law and
Spirituality & Contemplative Practices
3 Holistic
Law
4 Coaching
5
Transformative Mediation
6
Humanizing Legal Education
7
Restorative Justice
8 Creative
Problem Solving and Preventive Law
9
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
10
Integrating Law, Politics, and Spirituality
11 Lawyer
Assistance Programs
12 Lawyers
as Peacemakers
13 CLE
14 RL
Leadership and Community Connections
15 Retreats
16
Gatherings
17 Jobs and
Opportunities
18 Salons
and Teleclasses
19 Announcements,
Links, & Quotes of General Interest
1
Collaborative Law
The
Protocols of Practice for Collaborative Family Lawyers was
provisionally approved by the Board of Trustees, Collaborative Law Institute
of Texas, on January 28, 2004. The Protocols can be viewed at the CLI-TX
website:
http://www.collablawtexas.com/. Family law lawyers are encouraged to print off
these protocols, review them carefully and incorporate them into their
practices and as components of Participation Agreements in future cases.
Feedback on issues raised by the protocols is requested over the next 12
months, at which time they will come up for reconsideration by the Protocols
Committee. Contact Harry Tindall, Committee Chair at
htindall@tindallfoster.com with
your comments.
Scheduled Collaborative
Law Trainings in the United States and worldwide can be found on the
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals' website at
http://www.collabgroup.com/.
Level I Collaborative
Divorce Training in Phoenix, AZ, September 9-11, 2004. Collaborative Divorce presents a
three-day training consisting of an overview of the roles of each discipline
(attorney, financial and mental health) in the collaborative process,
demonstration of the process, intra-disciplinary training of each separate
discipline, ethical guidelines for the process, and inter-disciplinary team
work on actual cases. For more information or to register go to
http://www.collaborativedivorce.com/new_trainings.html.
Level 1
Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Law Training in Atlanta, GA: September 17-18 and
December 3-4, 2004. A two-day intensive course for attorneys, child
specialists, divorce coaches, financial consultants and mediators seeking to
participate in this dynamic new practice. Trainers include Nora Bushfield JD;
Robert Bordette CFP, CDFA; Eileen Thomas, JD; Eve Poling M.Ed., LCSW; DD
Petters, MS LPC; Robet Wildau, JD; Rachel "Susie" Kezh, JD; David
Alexander, child specialist; Lauren G. Alexander, JD; and Diane
Shearer-Chambers, mediator. For more information or to register, go to
http://www.collaborativelawga.com/training.htm.
Advanced Collaborative Law Training in San Francisco,
CA on Friday, September
17, 2004. Presented by Pauline Tesler,
this will be an all-day event, intended for collaborative lawyers who have had
some prior training in collaborative practice, and who have completed at least
ten collaborative cases through to an agreement. There will be group
discussion of emerging issues in collaborative practice, and on devising
effective approaches to complex and challenging practice problems, including
many from actual cases. Registered
participants will be invited to help shape the agenda, in advance of the
event. Stay tuned for further details, or contact Pauline H. Tesler at
pht@lawtsf.com.
Collaborative Law: “Recht
im Dialog” Seminar will be held near Salzburg, Austria on
September 30-October 2, 2004. Sponsored
by The Austrian
Lawyers` Mediation Association (AVM).
To register, contact AVM at
office@atm.co.at or by telephone +43-1-513-1201 or Fax at
+43-1-513 12 05. For more information about the seminar, go to the IACP website
at
http://www.collabgroup.com/.
The International Academy
of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) Forum, "Paradigms for
Peacemaking" is
scheduled for October 22-24, 2004 in Boston, MA. There will be workshops
on practice-related issues and ethical issues, a presentation of empirical
research about the use of collaborative law, and a Friday night dinner
featuring Prof. Robert Mnookin, chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard
Law School. Info about the Forum is available at the IACP web site:
http://www.collabgroup.com. Tapes and CDs
from the 2003 Vancouver conference are now available. To order, go to
http://www.collabgroup.com/.
Events Coinciding with the IACP Forum in October: There are several events which
coincide with the IACP Forum in October which may be of interest to attendees:
Report from the IACP
Annual Board Retreat: Norma Trusch, President of the IACP, reports
that the Board evaluated where the organization is going in the short an long
term with the assistance of Liz Ferris, the marketing consultant who assisted
the IACP. Norma reports, “After
several years of dealing with a tension between lawyer-centered collaborative
groups and purely multidisciplinary groups that follow the Collaborative
Divorce model, the IACP board voted to be an umbrella group that
embraces all collaborative models, without a preference for any one model. With
Liz's assistance and guidance, the board set an 18-month fundraising goal of
$665,000.00, with the monies to be used for a full-time executive director, the
next phases of the public relations campaign just being launched, maintaining a
first-class website and journal, and concentrating on a whole range of member
services.” For more information on the
IACP, go to
http://www.collabgroup.com/.
New
Collaborative Law Book: “Collaborative Practice: Deepening the Dialogue” by Nancy
Cameron has just been published. As
stated by the publisher, “In a
thoughtful, humourous, and concise manner, this author scrutinizes the landscape
of traditional litigation-based family practice, and provides guidance on how
to rethink personal and professional values, how to develop the new skills
required in collaborative practice, and how to set up an interdisciplinary
collaborative family practice. Learn how to "deepen the collaborative
dialogue" by exploring some of the complex issues and challenges faced by
collaborative practitioners. As well as in-depth discussion of the role of each
team member, this comprehensive book also contains checklists, sample retainer
letters, participation agreements, and an extensive suggested reading list for
a collaborative library.” The book can
be ordered on the publisher’s website at :
www.cle.bc.ca/cle.
Articles About Collaborative Law were recently published in the New
York Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
For the Christian Science Monitor article see
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0521/p02s01-ussc.html, The New York Times article can be found at
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/garden/20COLL.html.
New Monthly
Conference Call on Civil/Commercial Applications of Collaborative Law: held the second Wednesday of each
month at 4:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Pacific. This month’s call will be held on August 11th. You need not
reserve a space to participate. Simply Call the bridge line at
1-805-620-4000 on the specified date and time. When prompted, enter the access
code "02135" and you will be linked to the conference call.
Recently Published Articles on Collaborative Law:
§ John Lande,
Possibilities for Collaborative Law: Ethics and Practice of Lawyer
Disqualification and Process Control in a New Model of Lawyering, 64
§
John Lande, Negotiation: Evading Evasion: How Protocols Can Improve
Civil Case Results, 21 Alternatives to the High Costs of Litigation 149
(2003). (This article describes how collaborative law principles can be
adapted to for use in major non-family civil cases.)
§
Scheduled to be published: John Lande and Gregg Herman, Fitting the
Forum to the Family Fuss: Choosing Mediation, Collaborative Law, or
Cooperative Law for Negotiating Divorce Cases, 42 Family Court Review 280
(2004).
§ Scheduled
to be published: David A. Hoffman and Juliana Hoyt: Collaborative Law
Agreements for Business Cases, Massachusetts Collaborative Law Journal. The article has also been uploaded to the
Collaborative Law Listserv site at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollabLaw/files/.
The International
Academy of Collaborative Lawyers maintains a calendar of collaborative law
trainings held in the United states and Canada. For more information go to
http://www.collabgroup.com/
Software to support a
collaborative law practice can be found at
http://www.advocatesnetwork.org/
2 Law
and Spirituality & Contemplative Practices
Lawyer Dharma Group in the San Francisco Bay Area led by Mary Mocine, a Zen Buddhist priest who practiced law for 18
years. The group meets once a month on
Sunday mornings, alternating between Berkeley and San Francisco. The group meditates for a half hour, then
members discuss an aspect of law practice as it relates to meditation and
deeper values. A potluck brunch
follows. A teaching donation will be
requested. For more information contact
Mary Mocine at
marymo@att.net or
707-649-2480.
The
First Annual Symposium on Religious Violence and Peacemaking, “Torah, New Testament, Quran:Duties of the Faithful
New
Article by Leonard Riskin, “Mindfulness: Foundational Training for Dispute
Resolution,” is published in the March issue of the Journal of Legal
Education which will be published shortly. This article is also available on the website of the Initiative
on Mindfulness in Law and Dispute Resolution at
http://www.law.missouri.edu/csdr/mindfulness_resources.htm#Books%20and%20Articles.
At that location you can also find a link to Steven Keeva, “A Mindful Law
Practice” (ABA Journal, Mar. 2004, p. 78), and excellent article about
the mindfulness training offered by Robert Zeglovitch, a partner in Leonard
Street & Deinard, a large Minneapolis-based law firm.
The New Prospects for
Transforming Law and Society, founded by Cheryl Conner, MA, JD, offers workshops and
retreats for small groups of lawyers, law students and judges, where
participants can reflect on their "ways of being" and explore how to
bring courage, inspiration and love to the law. Over the last 8 years, Cheryl
has facilitated dialogue among law students, lawyers and judges about
integrating spiritual, ethical and holistic perspectives within law and legal
education. A recent illness has caused Cheryl to investigate further about
mind, body, and habits of being with guidance from Native American healers,
Tibetan Buddhist teachers, holistic healers, scientists, and spiritual friends.
These expanded understandings will profoundly benefit the participants in these
programs. For more information, contact Cheryl Conner at 617-332-0327 or e-mail
prospectsunltd@aol.com.
Steven
Keeva Article, “A Mindful Law Practice” was published in the March 2004
ABA Journal. Steven Keeva is author of
the breakthrough book “Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in
the Legal Life” and maintains a website at
http://www.transformingpractices.com/. This article is also available at
http://www.law.missouri.edu/csdr/keevam-nessabajo4.pdf.
The
Initiative on Mindfulness in Law and Dispute Resolution at the
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law maintains a calendar of Events on
Mindfulness in Law and Dispute Resolution at
http://www.law.missouri.edu/csdr/mindfulness.htm.
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Holistic Law
The
International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers is making plans for their next conference, with a theme of
Community, in Austin, Texas next fall. Stay tuned for details.
http://www.iahl.org/
IAHL
board/members Bill van Zyverden, Ed Shapiro, and Carolyn Hansen were among the
speakers at Babson College's Uplifting the
Human Spirit: Tools for Integrating Spirituality into Business, March
18-19, 2004.
http://www3.babson.edu/Events/spiritualityandbusiness/default.cfm
Conflict Coaching Seminar, September 20-22, 2004 in Denver,
CO sponsored Colorado Mediation Alliance.
Cinnie Nobel, President of CINERGY™ Coaching
and Noble Solutions, Inc., in presenting her nationally known three-day
Conflict Coaching Seminar for the first time ever in Denver. Cinnie Nobel
has extensive background as a mediator, educator/trainer, and conflict
coach. Conflict coaching is a growing area of expertise that has value
for experienced mediators, HR administrators, and other ADR professionals in
the private and government sectors. To
learn more about Cinne Nobel and her Conflict Coaching Seminar, go to
www.cinergycoaching.com. To register or more information, contact Eileen Charles Hyatt at
milehyatt@msn.com or 303-321-0637, or
Louise Wildee at
Louise@ADR-Resolution.com
or 303-755-1055.
The Legal
Coaches Special Interest Group meets by telephone on the second Monday of each month at 1 p.m.
Eastern. Our Legal SIG's "Mastermind" format has taken off!! The SIG
meetings are creative, provocative and well-attended by an energized group of
coaches within the legal community. The attendees are discovering solutions to
challenges that we all face in building a thriving practice. JOIN us for what
shall be a very spirited and uplifting hour! For more information contact
Warren Simonoff, ACG, Legal SIG Liaison at:
WarrenSimonoff@Qwest.net.
Join the Legal
SIG Listserve: The
Legal SIG urges all current members to join our Yahoo groups listserve to:
To join the Legal SIG group
on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/legalsig/.
The Center for
Mediation in Law offers
training in the “Understanding Based Model of Mediation.” The overarching
goal of this approach to mediation is to resolve conflict through
understanding. Deeper understanding by the parties of their own and each
other's perspectives, concerns, and priorities enables them to find creative
and mutually rewarding solutions to their conflict. MCLE credit available
for many programs. The Center also provides mediation training programs in
Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. For more information go to
http://www.mediationinlaw.org/homepage.html.
Save the Date!
First National Conference on Transformative Mediation, "Looking Back,
Looking Forward"
to be held November 7-8, 2004 in Philadelphia, PA. Featuring plenary and
keynote presentations by Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger, co-authors
of "The Promise of Mediation." For more information go to
http://www.transformativemediation.org/
or contact Jennifer Jorgenson at
jenniferjorgens@earthlink.net
or 845-452-7843.
The Biennial
Winter Retreat: Passion and Responsibility in the Heart of Conflict: December 2-4, 2004 in Banff,
Alberta. The Biennial Winter Retreat provides an an immersion in systems
constellation work with Barbara Ashley Phillips and Francesca Boring, enrolled
in the Shoshone Nation, author of Feather Medicine: Walking in Shoshone
Dreamtime: A Family System Constellation (2004). For more information, or to
register go to
http://www.crtraining.org/calendar_activities.php.
The Institute
for the Study of Conflict Transformation provides trainings in the transformative mediation model.
For a listing of scheduled trainings, go to
http://www.transformativemediation.org/training_program.htm.
Mediate.com maintains a calendar of mediation
trainings and conferences throughout the United States. For more information
go to
http://mediate.com/calendar/
Reports from the
Annual Conference of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Conference: Larry Krieger reports that he, Andy
Benjamin, and Gena Lewis spoke to the Section on Student Services on research
and ideas for empowering students to thrive in law school. There were about
100-120 attendees and a good level enthusiasm in the room. There was also an
impromptu breakfast on Sunday, with Susan Daicoff, Calvin Pang (newly installed
as chair of the Clinical Section), Marjorie Silver, Julie Sandine, and Tim and
Daisy Floyd. The main ideas discussed were:
American
Bar Association President Calls on Law Students to be Healers: At the
November “Great Lives in the Law” talk at Duke University, ABA president
Dennis Archer called on students to be “healers.” Archer explained that
lawyering is a "calling" and that lawyers are "ministers of
justice." For the full article about this talk, go to
http://www.law.duke.edu/features/archer.html
Appointment of
Daisy Floyd as Dean of Mercer Law School: Daisy Floyd has been appointed Dean of the Mercer Law School
in Macon, GA. The announcement is posted at
http://www2.mercer.edu/News/Articles/040115lawdean.htm
. Daisy Floyd has been involved in humanizing legal education and integrating
law, politics and spirituality. For a description of Daisy's Carnegie seminar
work on countering the negative aspects of legal education, see:
http://www.law.fsu.edu/academic_programs/humanizing_lawschool/images/daisy.pdf
New Study on Law
Students and Humanizing Legal Education: "Does Legal Education Have Undermining Effects on Law
Students? Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well Being," by K.
Sheldon and L. Krieger, published in 22 Behav. Sci. Law 1 (2004).
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Restorative Justice
"The Way Home: Stories of
Forgiveness" documentary, on which RLS founder
J. Kim Wright was a consultant, aired nationally on the Hallmark Channel on
Sunday, May 23, 2004. The one-hour
program, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Glenn Close, recounts
how Americans faced with difficult circumstances learn to come together and
tear down the walls that divide them.
This documentary features three poignant stories illustrating how
individuals find the power to give or accept forgiveness, overcome hate, and
embrace cultural and religious differences.
For those who missed this program, you can order it directly
for $15.99 at
http://www.visionvideo.com/?vid=3662&k=fv.
Fellowship of
Reconciliation’s National Conference 2004, “Organizing the Real Superpower:
People of the World Choose Peace” will be held August 5-9, 2004 in Los Angeles, CA. The
Fellowship of Reconciliation, begun in 1914, is an interfaith peace
organization composed of women and men who have joined together to explore the
power of love and truth for resolving human conflict. They will be holding a
five day conference in Los Angeles to organize an ever-increasing world
peace-force to work unflinchingly for justice and reconciliation. For more
information go to
http://www.forusa.org/.
Fresno Pacific
University Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies (PACS) offers the
“Basic Institute in Conflict Management and Mediation.” This five-day training
is designed for people who wish to acquire basic understanding and skills in
managing and resolving conflict, with an emphasis on restorative justice.
A Basic Institute is scheduled for August 9-13, 2004. For more information go
to
http://peace.fresno.edu/events.shtml
Restorative Justice and Mediation Training in the UK provided
by Mediation UK. Upcoming trainings
include
September 15: September Borderline, Good Enough and Great: Assessing Mediator
Portfolios for your service, Birmingham (prices/venue TBA). September 16: Supervision Skills Training, Birmingham
(prices and venue TBA). More information can be found at:
http://www.mediationuk.org.uk/events/home.asp?lv=1&MenuItemID=3&MenuID=1.
Training for Victim Offender Dialogue in Crimes of
Severe Violence: A Specialized Training to experience the embodiment of
Healing Dialogue within Yourself and Others with David Doerfler and Jon Wilson
to be held September
12-18th and December 6-11th in San Antonio,Texas. Texas is home for the first statewide,
in-system, victim-centered mediated dialogue program for victims of violent
crime in the country. This unique
program, originally and successfully developed and administered by David
Doerfler for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Victim Services
Division, has resulted in extraordinary experiences of healing for victims of
violent crime and for their offenders. As those individuals learned about
healing for themselves within those violent extremes, so we have the
opportunity to learn about the healing process for us all. Registration cost: $800. Trainings are limited to 12
participants. Specifically designed trainings in other locations can
also be arranged. For more information, contact David Doerfler at 512-263-7442
or
safeplace49@aol.com. For more information go to:
www.concentricjourneys.com.
Second International ICART Conference, “Working with Aggression and
Violence,” will be held
September 24, 2004 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Inspired by Arnold P. Goldstein’s Aggression Replacement Training
(ART), this conference is intended for all professionals who deal with
aggressive and violent clients, children, adolescents and adults in society,
social work, education, (mental) health care and, legal or forensic psychiatry
fields. It is organised by the
"The National Prison Aftercare
Conference" sponsored by Transition of Prisoners Inc. is scheduled for
October 15-17, 2004 in Detroit, Michigan.
Lisa M. Rea, President of The Justice & Reconciliation Project, will
be one of the keynote speakers. One of
the questions which will be examined at this conference is how restorative
justice fits in with the need for good aftercare programming as offenders are
released from prison or county jails.
If you have any questions, contact Latitia Watkins at
latitiawatkins@msn.com or (313)
875-3883 x27. More
information and the conference brochure are at
http://www.topinc.net/TOP%20Conference.htm.
Restorative Justice Training, “Severe Criminal & Political
Violence” in Roseville, MN on October 11-16, 2004. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota,
Center for Restorative Justice and Peacmaking, this advanced training seminar
is offered in response to a growing number of victims and survivors of severely
violent crime, including homicide and political violence, who want to meet the
offender/prisoner. For those with experience in victim offender mediation in
property crimes and minor assaults, this training will provide the knowledge
and framework for beginning to work with a limited number of severely violent
crimes, under proper supervision. For more information or to register go to:
http://ssw.che.umn.edu/rjp/Seminar_Oct11-16.html.
Third Conference
of the European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice to be held October
14-16, 2004 in Budapest, Hungary. The theme of this conference is,
“Restorative justice in Europe: Where are we heading?" For more information go to
http://www.euforumrj.org/html/about.activities.asp#Conferences
"The National Prison Aftercare Conference" sponsored
by Transition of Prisoner's Inc. is scheduled for October 15-17, 2004 in
Detroit, Michigan. Lisa M. Rea,
President of The Justice & Reconciliation Project, will be one of the
keynote speakers. One of the questions
which will be examined at this conference is how restorative justice fits in
with the need for good aftercare programming as offenders are released from
prison or county jails. More
information will be posted soon at
http://www.topinc.net/TOP%20Conference.htm.
International
Conference on Restorative Justice, “New Frontiers in Restorative Justice:
Advancing Theory and Practice” will be held December 2-5, 2004 at Massey University Albany, Auckland,
New Zealand. Presented by the Centre for Justice and Peace
Development. This conference will examine the new challenges the
restorative justice movement faces as it moves into its second
generation. For more information go to
http://justpeace.massey.ac.nz/.
To express interest in attending and/or to offer a presentation email
newfrontiers@massey.ac.nz or write
to Dr. Warwick Tie, Centre for Justice and Peace Development, School of Social
and Cultural Studies, Massey University, Private Bag 102 904, North Shore MSC,
Auckland, New Zealand. Closing date for the submission of abstracts is
May 31, 2004.
Call for Presenters for the International Institute for Restorative
Practices International Conference, March 3-5, 2005 in Sydney
Australia. The IIRP invites you to
submit a proposal to present at the third in a series of three conferences
dedicated to the theme "Building a Global Alliance for Restorative
Practices and Family Empowerment." This will be the IIRP’s Sixth
International Conference on Conferencing, Circles and other Restorative
Practices, bringing together social workers, probation officers, police,
teachers, administrators, researchers, criminologists, counselors, peacemakers,
academicians, judges, public planners, corrections officers and others. No formal written papers are required. A reduced conference
rate is available to presenters. The
deadline for submissions is August 12, 2004.
To view the Call for Presenters and to submit a proposal, please go to
http://www.iirp.org/sydney05.
The Restorative Practices eForum is two years old! The eForum is a
free service provided by the International Institute for Restorative Practices
(IIRP), an educational non-profit organization.
As a subscriber, you will receive occasional short e-mails, containing brief
summaries of significant articles, research reports or information about restorative
practices events - with internet links if you want more detail. To sign up for
the eForum go to:
http://www.restorativepractices.org/Pages/eforum.html.
Oprah Winfrey Raises the Awareness of Restorative Justice. Jan Goodwin has
written an article “After the Violence, The Possiblity of Healing”, which
appeared in the April 2004 issue of "O, the Oprah Magazine." The author, Jan Goodwin, has also written
articles which will be appearing in Family Circle Magazine and the May issue of
Marie Claire Magazine. On Friday, April
16, OPRAH Television filmed a show featuring three dialogues between victims
and offenders. The date the show will be aired has not been announced,
but we believe it will be in the next few weeks. Check the OPRAH website
to find airtimes.
New Restorative Justice Listserve hosted by the
Forum on Restorative Community Justice.
Members will be sent training announcements, event announcements,
relevant restorative justice information, legislative information, and the
Forum’s newsletter. They sending
approximately one message per week. To
join send an email to
Listserve-request@coloradorestorativejustice.org. Leave the subject line blank and type into
the body of the e-mail:
YourEmail@YourDomain.com. You can also visit their website at
http://www.coloradorestorativejustice.org.
Article on Restorative Justice Practices of Native American, First
Nation and Other Indigenous People of North America: Part One published in
the Restorative Practices Library of the International Institute of Restorative
Practices. Part one of this series includes interviews with three justice
practitioners of the southwestern United States: the Honorable Robert Yazzie,
chief justice emeritus of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court; Judge Joseph
Flies-Away of the Hualapai Nation; and James Zion, former solicitor to the
Navajo Nation Court and current domestic abuse commissioner at Crownpoint, New
Mexico, Family Court.
New Journal: The Journal of International
Criminal Justice is a new journal to be published focusing on the major problems of justice from the angle of law,
jurisprudence, criminology, penal philosophy, and the history of international
judicial institutions. You can see the
journal website at:
http://www.jicj.oupjournals.org/
New
Resource “Prisons Almanac 2004” published
by the Prisons Foundation. This is a large
(8 ½ by 11, over 200 pages) reference book containing the most promising and
uplifting prison-related news stories of the previous year. It also features
the most up-to-date data on prisoners and prisons in America. Finally, we've
included abundant advice and predictions for the new year by those with insight
and experience in the prison world, including ex-prisoner Elton Edwards who
left prison to work for the ACLU, Tom
Lagana who edited Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul and other important
books, and ex-prisoner Mary Barr who now heads a successful reentry
program. Until April 15, Prisons
Almanac 2004 is available at the specially discounted price of $49 (reg. $69),
postage and handling included. You can order your copy on line by going to
http://prisonsfoundation.org/
The Victim
Offender Mediation Association (“VOMA”) Quarterly Newsletter has been published on the VOMA Web
site at
http://voma.org/connect.shtml.
Contents include a study of shame and empathy in the Restorative Justice
process, an article on integrating Restorative Justice principles into drug
courts, and a reflection on Restorative Justice in South Africa and Serbia.
Restorative
Justice Online is a
monthly online magazine published by the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation
which contains informative articles about the restorative justice movement in
the United States and abroad. See
http://www.restorativejustice.org/
Interesting
Article about Restorative Justice Program for Victims: This article discusses a pilot
program in Hawaii, the “Restorative Justice Without Offender Participation
Project.” The restorative practice developed for this project gives
victims an opportunity to tell their stories in a small group setting. They can
talk about how they have been affected by the crime and what might assist them
in repairing the harm. To see the article go to
http://www.iirp.org/library/lwalker04.html.
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Creative Problem Solving & Preventive Law
ABA
Problem Solver Awards: The American Bar Association announced that the
Dispute Resolution Center of Harris County, Texas and California lawyer Forrest
‘Woody’ Mosten, a pioneer in leading alternative dispute resolution, will be
recognized for their contributions to dispute resolution and mediation next
month during the ABA Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution will present Mosten with
the 2004 Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, while the Dispute Resolution Center
will receive the 2004 Institutional Lawyer as Problem Solver Award during a
luncheon on Friday,
August 6 beginning at noon. The ABA
Section of Dispute Resolution presents the Lawyer as Problem Solver Award each
year to a member of the legal profession who has exhibited extraordinary skill
in either promoting the concept of the lawyer as problem-solver or resolving
individual, institutional, community, state, national, or international
problems in his or her capacity as a lawyer. Recipients are acknowledged for
their use or promotion of collaboration, negotiation, mediation, counseling,
decision-making, and problem-solving skills to help parties resolve a problem
in a creative and novel way.
9 Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Call for TJ
papers! The International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence
(INTJ) has arranged to have a mini-conference in connection with the 32nd
Annual Conference of the Western Society of Criminology in Honolulu, Hawaii on
February 17th – 19th, 2005. Submissions
may consist of individual papers, round table discussions, or panels of up to 4
papers on any aspect of therapeutic jurisprudence as it relates to criminology
broadly construed. Appropriate
presentations include: legal analyses, current research, presentations of
current TJ practice, discussions of curriculum, or analyses of TJ theory. Submissions should consist of a 150 word
abstract and full contact information and should relate to the WSC conference
theme: “Meeting the Challenge: Translating Research into Practice”. All TJ submissions should be emailed to
Carolyn Hartley at
carolyn-hartley@uiowa.edu
by October 1, 2005. For more information, go to:
http://www.sonoma.edu/cja/wsc/wscmain.html
or email Carrie Petrucci at
cpetrucc@csulb.edu.
Therapeutic Justice Panel for International Congress in Paris: Sharon Portwood and John Q. La Fond
wish to assemble one or more panels on the general subject of Therapeutic
Jurisprudence for the next International Congress to be held by the
International Academy of Law and Mental Health in Paris in July 2005. The panel
sessions will be held on Wednedsay, Thursday, and Friday, July 6th, 7th, and
8th. Please let John know if you would
be interested in participating on a panel.
He may be reached at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of
Law at (816)-235-5818 or
LafondJ@umkc.edu.
New Publication on Problem-Solving Courts:
The National Center for
State Courts published the inaugural edition of its Problem-Solving Reporter, a
quarterly electronic newsletter designed to show how courts are serving their
communities by engaging in problem-solving and therapeutic justice. See the first issue at
http://view.exacttarget.com/?fec817707c610679-fe3910737764037e751473. To subscribe, go to
http://www.ncsconline.org/Newsletters/NCSC_newsletters.htm.
Call for Papers: A special issue devoted to Juvenile Offending and Mental Illness will be
published in Journal of Evidenced-Based Social Work: Advances in Practice,
Programming, Research, and Policy. The special issue seeks manuscripts related
to juvenile crime and violence and mental illness. Manuscripts should not
exceed 25 pages in length and are to include an abstract of 100 words or
less. Manuscripts are due by August 1st, 2004. For more details
about the content and format, contact Lisa Rapp-Paglicci, Ph.D., Guest Editor,
at 863-667-7702 or
lisar@lklnd.usf.edu.
Criminal Justice
Funding Opportunities:
Open Society Institute sponsors two grant programs relating to criminal
justice. The Gideon Project awards grants in the following areas: improving
public defense services; death penalty reform; combating racial profiling; and
promoting prosecutorial accountability. For more information go to
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/gideon/guidelines.
A second grant promotes programs that support successful reentry and
reintegration of people returning from prison. For more information go to
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/after_prison.
Update to
Therapeutic Justice website: The website of the International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence
has recently been updated. Therapeutic jurisprudence (“TJ”) is the "study
of the role of the law as a therapeutic agent." It focuses on the law's
impact on emotional life and on psychological well-being. This site contains a
wealth of information and links to resources. For more information go to
http://www.therapeuticjurisprudence.org/.
New Therapeutic
Jurisprudence Book Published: “Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence:
International Perspectives on Civil Commitment.” Edited by Kate Diesfeld and
Ian Freckelton. This collection is written from a therapeutic jurisprudence
perspective and draws on international contributors who all share a commitment
to evaluating whether the civil detention processes protect the liberty,
dignity and justice interests of those with mental illnesses and intellectual
disabilities. For more information or to order, go to
http://www.ashgate.com/,
New Book on The
Relationship Between Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Elder Law: “The Law and Older
Persons: Is Geriatric Jurisprudence Therapeutic?” For more information, see
http://www.cap-press.com/.
Law in Context, a law journal affiliated with La
Trobe University law school in Melbourne,Vic.,Australia, published a special
issue devoted to Therapeutic Jurisprudence in December, 2003, edited by Marilyn
McMahon and David Wexler. The complete contents of issue (Volume 20, Issue 2),
with links to the abstracts, can be seen at
http://www.fedpress.aust.com/journals/journal.asp?issn=08115796#15.
New Articles on
Domestic Violence Courts
in Criminology & Public Policy, Volume 3, No. 1, November 2003, including:
New
College of California Announces the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law,
and Politics, a nationwide network of lawyers, law professors, law
students, and others interested in the progressive transformation of law. The
Project seeks develop and articulate a new vision of law’s relationship to
social transformation, and seeks to bring together leaders and activists in
such spiritual/political/humanistic legal movements as Restorative Justice, Understanding-based
Mediation, Collaborative Law, and Humanizing Legal Education under a common
theoretical and practical vision that can unify their respective efforts.
For information go to
http://www.spiritlawpolitics.org/.
They will host a retreat in Atlanta in October, 2004.
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Community Lawyering
Community
Lawyering in Massachusetts: Neighborhood Legal Services is a free provider of civil legal assistance
for low income residents of Essex County, Massachusetts, and is a pioneer in
the field of community lawyering. In their community lawyering project,
they assist residents of low income communities speak for themselves, effect
change on their own terms and build the social, economic and human services
organizations and institutions they need to build healthy neighborhoods and
speak to governmental and institutional power. For information about the
Community Lawyering project and its recent activities, go to
http://www.neighborhoodlaw.org/page/122224&cat_id=1349.
Law Students and
Community Lawyering:
For a profile on the Community Lawyering Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center
in Concord, NH see “A Passion for Social Justice” at
http://www.piercelaw.edu/news/pubs/Ad00Vol4No1/adv4no1p4.pdf.
For an article on how law students at Brigham Young University law school are
participating in a course on community lawyering, see
http://magazine.byu.edu/bym/1999/99fall/pages/on_campus14.shtml.
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Lawyer Assistance Programs
New Joint
J.D./Masters Degree Program, “Law and Peacemaking.” Fresno
Pacific University and San Joaquin College of Law formally announced the
creation of the first cooperative degree program of its kind in the nation.
This program teaches new lawyers the skill of peacemaking, creating a new era
of law. The successful graduate upon completion of the required courses through
both institutions would earn both a juris doctorate from San Joaquin College of
Law and a master of arts in peacemaking and conflict studies from Fresno
Pacific University. Signing on behalf
of the San Joaquin College of Law was Board of Directors Chair Douglas Noll and
Dean Janice Pearson. Signing for Fresno Pacific University was Provost Patricia
Anderson, Board of Trustees Chair Larry Martens and President D. Merrill
Ewert. According to San Joaquin College
of Law Board of Directors Chair Douglas Noll, the cooperative program seeks to
create a new breed of professionals: the lawyer-peacemaker. "Lawyers face human conflict every day
and often attempt to resolve problems outside of litigation. Unfortunately, human conflicts are often
reduced to money, injunctions and declarations of rights. This approach frequently
fails miserably, leaving all parties dissatisfied with the outcomes.
Peacemakers are trained to understand human conflict and the necessary
conditions for peaceful resolution from a multi-disciplinary perspective."
You can read the Fresno Bee article on the subject at
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/8873399p-9763161c.html. For more information contact the Center for
Peacemaking and Conflict Studies pacs@fresno.edu or go to
http://peace.fresno.edu.
New York Times
Article “The Myth of Moral Justice: Lawyer, Heal Thy
Client” by Dahlia Lithwick was published
May 2, 2004. This article reviews Thane
Rosenbaum’s book, ''The Myth of Moral Justice” and describes how Rosenbaum, a
lawyer, essayist and novelist, seeks to reshape the bloodless American legal
system into a ''moral'' one -- responsive to the nuance of human sensibility
and spirit. To read the article go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/books/02LITHWIT.html?ex=1084606051&ei=1&en=ba06a21b3f86ef91
2004 Association
of Conflict Resolution Conference “Valuing Peace in the 21st
Century: Expanding the Art and Practice of Conflict Resolution” to be held September 29 – October 2,
2004 at the Sacramento Convention Center in Sacramento, California. The
conference will address a wide variety of themes, including emerging issues
facing practitioners in the 21st century, innovations in conflict resolution
training, and opportunities for conflict resolution practice in the 21st
century. For more information go
to
http://www.acrnet.org/conferences/ac04/index.htm
Bradley L. Winch
in now collecting "chicken soup" style stories that deal with creating peace in our
own lives and on the planet. Story guidelines, in seven languages, are
available at:
http://www.peacemaker.st/.
In the alternative, e-mail Bradley at:
blwjalmar@att.net
and he will send a MSWord document with the guidelines.
New website of
the European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation at
http://www.conflictprevention.org/.
For those of you interested in the goal of "effective action in conflict
prevention from the community to the global level," this site will be of
interest to you.
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Connections
Become a
member of Renaissance Lawyer Society. Go to
http://www.renaissancelawyer.com/MembershipInfo.htm
RLS President
Maureen Holland is
profiled in a recent article on in the Christian Science Monitor, “Lawyers Who
Heal.” The article discusses Maureen’s
transformation from a ‘pit bull’ litigator to a holistic lawyer, and the
growing movement nationwide toward holistic lawyering. To read the article, go to:
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0721/p17s01-lire.html.
RLS Board Member Cindy Zatzman had an article published in the July 1, 2004 edition of The
Florida Bar News. Entitled, “Finding
personal peace in a conflict driven profession,” the column discusses Cindy’s
experience with collaborative family practice.
To view the article, go to:
http://www.flabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNNews01.nsf/8c9f13012b96736985256aa900624829/b49ab6939a3da1da85256ebb0056839e?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Zatzman.
Founding member, Jennie Winter, has passed the California bar exam. Congratulations to Jennie!
In her final year of law school, Jennie worked with Judge Len Edwards, a
pioneer in therapeutic jurisprudence.
RLS announces
the 2004 Officers for the organization: Maureen T.
Holland, President; Melanie Carstarphen, Vice-president and Secretary; and
Kevin Ginsberg, Treasurer. Kim Wright returns as Chairman of the Board along with returning
members Past President, Donna Boris, membership committee chair Cindy
Zatzman.
Chairman of the Board, J.
Kim Wright:
http://www.consciouscoach.com/
President of the Board,
Maureen Holland
mtholland@aol.com and
through
http://www.hollandattorney.com/.
Vice President &
Secretary: Melanie Carstarphen:
www.coachadvocate.com
Treasurer: Kevin Ginsberg
Membership Director: Cindy
Zatzman:
http://www.practical-ethics.com/
Past President: Donna Boris
The Renaissance
Lawyer Society is seeking additional Board members. If you are interested, or if you
know someone who would make a great addition to the Board, please contact the
President Maureen T. Holland at
mtholland@renaissancelawyer.com.
RLS is also
seeking those persons who are interested and would be willing to help organize
periodic regional and/or local meetings for RLS. RLS recognizes that in person
support and discussions with others in your area over coffee, lunch, dinner,
wine or cheese (or the like) are important to the continued growth and
transformation of individuals and the legal system. These meetings could be
monthly or quarterly, depending on the interest in your area. The RLS Board is
willing to provide support for you in terms of structure, personal assistance, and
contact info for your region, if available, for those local and/or regional
leaders. Please contact the President Maureen T. Holland at
mtholland@renaissancelawyer.com
for additional information. "
Mike
Kitchen graduates Law School! RLS founding member Mike
Kitchen announces that, after 5 long years of hard work, he will be graduating
from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law on May 9, 2004. Mike is a founding member of RLS and founder
of the first law school chapter of RLS.
While in law school, Mike also worked full-time, was a devoted husband
and father and ran for political office.
Mike also announces that the memoirs of Erma Henderson, the former Detroit
City Council President, have been published.
Mike assisted Emma in writing her memoirs during his law school
years. Born in 1917, Emma’s life has been committed to social
activism, racial and cultural inclusion, democratic ideals and spiritual principles. She has spoken nationally and
internationally on these topics. Mike
writes, “Erma's story is very inspiring - otherwise I would not have
volunteered to assist her in this project. She tells her story, noting
all along the way that you, the reader, can accomplish great goals as she
has.” To order the book in hardcover,
paperback and e-book format. go to
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=22935. To be apprised of events and news
surrounding the book, email Mike at
CoCre8tor@aol.com.
Renaissance
Lawyer Society founding board members J. Kim Wright and Dolly Garlo, along with
Marty Price, have written an article on the movement that is published in
February's Washington Bar News. See: Transformational Law: New Approaches Expand Choices in
Law Practice at
http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/2004/feb-04-default.htm
Other articles in this
issue include: Collaborative Law Reaches Out by Stefani Quane and Rachel Felbeck
and Respecting Lawyers by Paul Lehto. And in the March issue, Founding member Irene Leonard is
profiled. See: To Be
or Not to Be . . . Coached: A Profile of Coach Irene Leonard by Mar Sulaika
Ochs at
http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/2004/mar-04-default.htm.
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Retreats
Ariadne's Thread Retreats led
by Jennifer Tull provide retreats for women going through divorce and other
relationship transitions, held at the beautiful Red Corral Ranch in the Texas
Hill Country. Ariadne’s Thread also offer a series of retreats for lawyers,
counselors and other health care professionals who know that healing in their
own lives will support them in more effectively healing others. Retreats
in 2004 are scheduled for September 30-October 3. An Advanced Course and
Graduate Reunion retreat will be held July 29-August 1, 2004. For more
information go to
http://www.aspaforthesoul.com/.
Ariadne's Thread
Retreat at the Omega Institute: Jennifer Tull, one of RLS' founding members, has
been invited to be present her retreat at the Omega Institute for Holistic
Studies in Rhinebeck, New York. This is a huge honor, and a giant leap forward
for the retreat program. A retreat is scheduled at the New York facility for
September 26-October 1, 2004. For more information or to register go to:
http://www.eomega.com/omega/workshops/8dc6e4985c931097f26620f273028250/.
There will be another retreat scheduled for Omega's new facility in Austin next
January. For more information about the Omega Institute, go to: www.eomega.com.
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Other Gatherings and Events
Fresno Pacific
University maintains a
listing of mediation, restorative justice and other peace building job openings
at
http://peace.fresno.edu/rjjobs.php.
Pepperdine
University's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution maintains a List of Employment
Opportunities related to the Dispute Resolution field at
https://lawmail.pepperdine.edu/asp/adrjobs/disputejoblist.asp.
The Institute
for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution maintains a listing of jobs and
internships in the conflict resolution field at
http://www.iimcr.org/subs/05.html.
Director,
American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution: The American Bar Association seeks a
Staff Director to oversee and manage its more than 9,000 member Section of
Dispute Resolution. Among its goals, the Section strives to provide
national leadership in the dispute resolution field. The Director works
closely with the section leadership and over 30 committees in formulating and
implementing all section activities. This includes planning and oversight
of a $1 million budget, supervising a five person staff, conducting legal
educational meetings, publishing a magazine and practical books on ADR issues,
developing relevant ABA policies, securing corporate and law firm donations to
support Section programs, and expanding technology based services to the
members. Director oversees the fund development campaign for the Section
Dispute Resolution Resource Center and obtains outside funds and grants to
support section public service programs.
Applicant should have at least five years of prior management
experience, preferably in an association or non-profit entity setting.
Prior experience in alternative dispute resolution and an advanced degree in
law, management, or business are highly desirable. Must exhibit strong
organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, and a commitment to
customer service. Applicants are encouraged to visit the section’s website at
www.abanet.org/dispute. To
apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and list of three professional
references by e-mail to
abajobsdc@abanet.org
or to the American Bar Association, 740 15th Street, N.W.,
Washington, DC 20005 or fax to 202-662-1032. Applicant should reference
“Attn: HR- C335.”
People to People & PeaceWeb’s “Peace Studies Program in South
Africa”: People to
People Ambassador Programs is coordinating a delegation of professionals
specializing in peacemaking and conflict resolution who will travel to South
Africa October 16-27, 2004. Delegates will visit professionally related sites
and meet with those specializing in conflict transformation, reconciliation,
peace studies, restorative justice, and other related areas. The exchange will
include extensive discussions on the application of diverse conflict resolution
and peacebuilding strategies to address critical social issues, e.g.
racism and the residual effects of slavery and apartheid, domestic violence,
the AIDS epidemic, gangs. Delegates
will visit three primary areas — Johannesburg, Kruger National Park, and Cape
Town — experiencing South Africa’s culture and heritage along the way. Program details and a registration form are
available by calling 1-877-787-2000 or e-mailing
info@ambassadorprograms.org. For more information on this opportunity, go
to
http://www.apeacemaker.net/tmp/Peace-Studies-Delegation-to-South-Africa.doc.
Soros Justice Advocacy, Senior and Media Fellowships: The Fe