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Navigating High-Conflict Divorce Cases: Litigation Tactics, Negotiation Strategies, Mitigating Client Impacts

Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A

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Conducted on Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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This CLE webinar will help family lawyers recognize the indicators of high-conflict divorce cases and provide effective strategies for working with our clients and opposing counsel. The panel will share insights on managing aggressive litigation tactics.

Description

High-conflict divorces involve heightened emotional, financial, and legal challenges. We often see aggressive litigation tactics; domestic violence issues; parental alienation claims; disputes over parenting time and parental decision-making, support, and the division of assets; or a combination of these factors and others.

Contentious divorce cases require skills in discovery preparation, expert witness use, strategic negotiation tactics, and responding to aggressive opposing counsel. The more contentious the case, the more important it is that counsel work with his or her client as a team to effectively manage expectations, de-escalate conflict, and maintain a professional demeanor.

Counsel must be prepared with a thorough understanding and command of the tools available to protect their client's interests while managing these often volatile disputes.

Listen as our panel discusses important considerations in these complex matters and identifies best practices and strategies for navigating the challenges they can present, from initial filing to final judgment.

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Outline

  1. Characteristics of a high-conflict divorce case
  2. Child custody disputes
    1. High-conflict custody disputes
    2. Managing parental alienation claims
  3. Domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues
  4. Client management
  5. Litigation and negotiation
    1. Discovery strategies and considerations
    2. Hidden assets and financial misconduct
    3. Negotiating to de-escalate conflict
    4. Dealing with aggressive opposing counsel

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • Trends in family courts' handling of high-conflict divorce cases
  • Legal strategies for high-conflict divorces
  • Tools for navigating high-conflict dynamics and achieving favorable outcomes

Faculty

Conlon, Timothy
Timothy J. Conlon
Partner
Darrow Everett

Mr. Conlon is one of the leading divorce attorneys in Rhode Island and the surrounding region. He is well-versed in...  |  Read More

Gitlin, Gunnar
Gunnar J. Gitlin, J.D.
Attorney
The Gitlin Law Firm

Mr. Gitlin exclusively practices divorce and family law. He is a published author and frequent lecturer to...  |  Read More

Soltys, Jeanette
Jeanette Soltys
Attorney and Founder
Atlanta Holistic Family Law

Ms. Soltys is an Attorney and Founder of Atlanta Holistic Family Law. After graduating from the University of...  |  Read More

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