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Claire G Spector, JD (NY), CDFA
(Lawyer/Mediator)
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I facilitate businesses, nonprofits & families in transition in achieving better outcomes, win-win agreements and optimal financial results.
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829 Sonoma Avenue
Santa Rosa CA 95404 USA
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707-523-0570 |
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| Email: |
cspector@sonic.net |
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| Professional Activities |
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Co-Chair, CCRE Civil Collaborative Practice Committee
Founder & Editor of the CCRE Civil Collaborative Practice Journal
Member, CCRE Education & Training Committee
Member, CCRE Collaborative Family Law Protocol Committee
Member, IACP Civil Committee, Probate Subcommittee
Member, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Collaborative Law Committee
Member, ABA Section of Tort Trial and Insurance Practice ADR Committee Psychology of Conflict Resolution Subcommittee
Member, Collaborative Practice Study Group
Member, CCRE Civil Collaborative Practice Study Group
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| Professional Licenses |
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NY Attorney Registration 1883024
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst
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| General Comments |
My collaborative practice is informed by 31 years as a mediator and 27 years of experience as a collaborative attorney, counselor, facilitator, financial neutral and business development professional. I serve businesses, individuals and families in achieving win-win outcomes in civil, business development, family, divorce and Eldercare matters.
I help clients and their attorneys create:
• Better outcomes based on fully informed decisions
• Mutually rewarding agreements
• Sustainable out-of-court settlements
• Win-Win financial results.
After two years working in civil trial and motion parts as personal legal assistant to NY Judge Bruce McM. Wright, I took two years of high-conflict mediation training with New York City-based Institute for Mediation & Conflict Resolution.
I served for two years as an IMCR assistant trainer and mediated criminal cross complaints in New York City.
I received my JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and was admitted to practice law in New York in 1983.
Collaborative Business Development and Mediation
As a Collaborative Process Facilitator, Mediator, Business and Venture Development Specialist I assist established and emerging companies and nonprofit and government organizations in building business value and financial results.
In the 1980's, I served as a principal and Chief Operating Officer of a seven-division New York venture development firm. Our corporate business development clients were entering into strategic alliance and joint venture relationships and needed legal processes and structures more appropriate to prevent conflicts, better manage risks and maximize profits.
Integrating interest- and needs-based mediation, facilitation and collaborative negotiation skills, I developed collaborative co-venture support, co-venture and conflict prevention agreements and dispute resolution processes in service of clients' business needs.
Interdisciplinary collaborative process facilitation, neutral financial analysis and mediation support produces more client value, better communication and helps clients respond to a rapidly changing business and economic climate.
Confidential decision-support from collaboratively trained financial neutrals, facilitators and legal counsel, protects trade secrets, builds communication, addresses real needs and interests and mediates differences in negotiating sustainable long-term agreements.
Collaborative Process helps decision-makers with bottom-line responsibilities form, turning around, launch and grow ever more functional profit-critical business relationships.
Divorce, Eldercare and Estate Planning Matters
I serve as a mediator and financial neutral helping families make life changing transitions.
As a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, I assist families considering a divorce gather financial information and records and develop perspective on financial options for settlements that work.
I can help you and your family gather information necessary to prepare for estate planning or the supportive care and the highest quality of life for an Elder or Adults with Disabilities.
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| Areas of Practice |
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Business Law
Civil Law
Collaborative Law
Family Law
Financial
Mediation
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| Education |
| Undergraduate Education |
| City College of New York, BA, 1977, magna cum laude, Sociology and Pre-Law |
| Post-graduate Education |
| Institute for Mediation & Conflict Resolution, 1979-1982, High Conflict & Community Mediation |
| Professional Education |
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, JD, 1982
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| Collaborative Practice Training |
| Year |
Training Type |
Instructor |
Hours |
| 2005 |
CCRE/SCBA Divorce & Dying: A Collaborative Approach to Help Families Survive |
Chip Rose, JD; William Andrews, JD |
14 |
| 2007 |
Stepping Stones to Civil and Business Collaborative Practice |
I was instructor |
1 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Impasse and the End Stage |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Creating & Feeding the Collaborative Team; Privacy & Confidentiality |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Assessing Client Suitability; The Role of the Law |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
CCRE In Depth Communication Skills; Observation Skills; Systems Theory |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Collaborative Process Models; Emotional Impact of Loss & Grief |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Introduction and Overview of Collaborative Process |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
Collaborative Negotiation |
Sherri Goren Slovin, Victoria Smith |
14 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Difficult Clients or Clients Having Difficulties |
Jeff Kahn PhD Randy Cheek MFT |
2 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Impasse as a Narcissistic Crisis: Understanding the IDR Cycle |
Elizabeth Bader, JD |
1 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Financial Mindfulness III in Collaborative Practice |
I was instructor |
1 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Collaborative Process Models; Intro to Communcation Skills; Emotional Impact of Loss & Grief |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Case Debriefing; Values, Benefits and Attitudes of the Collaborative Practitioner |
Catherine Conner, Margaret L. Anderson, Randy Cheek, Barb Bowen, Sue Berg, Dana Scheider |
7 |
| 2009 |
Hofstra Collaborative Law Conference, Civil Collaborative Practice |
Sherrie Abney, JD; Larry Maxwell, JD |
2 |
| 2009 |
CCRE The Collaborative Continuum: Collaborative Practice in Healthcare |
Kathleen Clark, JD, PhD, MAM |
1 |
| 2009 |
Hofstra School of Law Collaborative Law Conference |
Andy Shepard |
5 |
| 2009 |
CCRE The Neurobiology of Conflict Resolution |
Claudia Bernard |
1 |
| 2009 |
Grief Matters: Understanding and Responding to Grief in Estates & Trusts |
Bill Andrews, Dana Curtis, Patrick Thornton, Stacy Carr, Shelley Ocana |
3 |
| 2009 |
IACP Civil Collaborative Practice |
Michael Zeytoonian, Kathy Bryan, Lynda Robbins |
5 |
| 2009 |
IACP Two Legal Rivers Converge in Civil Collaborative Practice |
Michael Zeytoonian, Paul Faxon |
1.5 |
| 2009 |
Civil Collaborative Practice Roundtable |
Lynda Robbins, Kathy Bryan, Michael Zeytoonian, Marshall Yoder |
3 |
| 2009 |
CCRE When to Intervene |
Barb Bowen, Moss Henry |
1 |
| 2009 |
CCRE The Child Specialist: Listening to Children's Voices in the Collaborative Process |
Dan Pickar PhD, Jeff Kahn, PhD |
1 |
| 2009 |
CCRE Rituals for Collaborative Practice |
Sharon Ellison |
1 |
| 2009 |
CCRE Collaborative Practice and Cultivating Wisdon |
Charlie Halpern, JD |
1 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Creating Movement in Collaborative Practice, Mediation & Counseling |
Anat Baniel, MS |
1 |
| 2010 |
SCBA Mediation of Estate and Trust Disputes |
Bill Andrews, Hon. Bill Bettinelli, Jack DeMeo, Robert Murray, Kim Marois, Dana Curtis |
3 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Staying Cool in the Fire: Perspectives from Spiritual Traditions and Peacemakers for Responding to Conflict |
Dr. Donald Rothberg, PhD |
1 |
| 2010 |
NeuroCollaboration Intensive, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Pepperdine School of Law |
Pauline Tesler, JD, Dr. Thomas Lewis, MD |
18 |
| 2010 |
ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Civil Collaborative Symposium: Business Applications of Civil Collaborative Practice |
Kathleen Clark, JD, PhD, MAM, Bill Andrews, JD, Sherrie Abney, JD, Jeanne Fahey, JD, Claire Spector, JD, June Riley, MBA, Sandy Coletta MBA, Mark Decoff JD, Ila Rothschild JD, Mark Graber, MD, Kathy Bryan, JD |
7 |
| 2010 |
Powerful Non-Defensive Communication |
Sharon Ellison |
7 |
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| Continuing Education |
| Year |
Education Type |
Instructor |
Hours |
| 2009 |
Differentiating Domestic Violence and High-Conflict |
Joan Kelly, Ph.D. |
7 |
| 2008 |
Tax Consequences of Divorce |
Beverly Brautigam & Hal Bartholomew |
7 |
| 2008 |
Understanding Based Mediation Intensive |
Gary Friedman, JD, Catherine Conner, JD |
32 |
| 2009 |
SCBA Settlement Analysis |
Susan Spar, JD |
1 |
| 2009 |
SCBA Planning for Incapacity |
Anne Dennis, JD, Janice Sternfeld, JD |
3 |
| 1979 |
Institute for Mediation & Conflict Resolution Mediation Intensive |
David C. Forrest, JD, LLM |
40 |
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