by Heidi Webb | Oct 15, 2014 | Child Support, Process and Philosophy, The Consilium Process, The Consilium Process- A New Paradigm
I can still envision the look on the face of my 10th grade English teacher when he passed back my excellent grade on <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>The Prophet</span> by Kahlil Gibran. It said: “Why wasn’t the quality of your work...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 18, 2014 | Consilum - Tools in the Toolbox
I was a skeptic. How could a lawyer agree to give up a major tool in her toolbox? What possible advantage might there be in agreeing not to go to court? At the outset of a case, Collaborative Law did not make a lot of sense to me. Why “lawyer up” if you intend to go...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 16, 2014 | Law and Society, Process and Philosophy, The Consilium Process, The Consilium Process- A New Paradigm
After seeing Neverland at the American Repertory Theatre, I got to thinking about how we tell stories- to ourselves, to our children, to our families and to our worlds. What we choose to say, and what we choose not to say. J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan and the...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 5, 2014 | Process and Philosophy, The Consilium Process
A beach vacation, time away, sunny days and sandy toes. Those images had been swimming in our minds for a few weeks before actually heading off to North Carolina. However as our flight was landing the pilot’s message confirmed my weather app…a slight drizzle was...
by Heidi Webb | Aug 18, 2014 | Law and Society, The Consilium Process- A New Paradigm
Law School has classes on many different aspects of the legal system (Contracts, Property, Civil Procedure to name a few)—but there’s one very important subject that they don’t have in the curriculum: Empathy. I remember one case I had, years ago, where the opposing...
