If Andy Warhol was correct that everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame, it seems that Collaborative Divorce is getting its share. Nowadays, people no longer look at me funny when I tell them I'm a Collaborative Divorce lawyer -- I am more likely to hear something like: "Oh, isn't that the friendly divorce? I heard something about that. Cool!" I never remember anyone previously telling me that my profession as a divorce lawyer was "cool." This really is different. More and more, it seems that people are learning about the many benefits of the Collaborative Divorce model.
This is no doubt due in part to the buzz of the many successful Collaborative Divorce cases. It sometimes seems that a day doesn't go by without another article somewhere about Collaborative Divorce. So it was that a friend of mine told me that she had read about one of my clients in the April issue of Seattle Woman Magazine. "Really?" I asked, as I made a mental note that I needed to look up that article. So it was that I learned that one of my cases had become part of the 15 minutes of fame of the Collaborative Divorce movement. Here is the link: Harmonic Divergence: A Win-Win Way to Divorce. It was really nice hearing about my client's wonderful experience.
More ink was spilled in April on the benefits of Collaborative Divorce in an article I wrote for the King County Bar Bulletin: Offering Families a Chance at a Better Divorce. My article was focused on helping other lawyers -- divorce lawyers and non-divorce lawyers alike -- learn about some of the significant structural advantages of the Collaborative Divorce process in helping clients divorce.