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Claire G Spector, CDFA™
(Lawyer/Mediator)
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I facilitate businesses, nonprofits & families in transition in achieving better outcomes, sustainable mutually beneficial 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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cspector@sonic.net |
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http:// |
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Co-Chair, CCRE Education & Training Committee
Co-Chair, CCRE Civil Collaborative Practice Committee
Founding Editor, CCRE Civil Collaborative Practice Journal
Member, CCRE Education & Training Committee
Member, CCRE Collaborative Family Law Protocol Committee
Founding Member, CCRE Civil Practice Group
Member, IACP
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, CCRE Collaborative Practice Study Group
President & CEO, Advanced Collaborative Team Solutions, Inc. ACT-Solutions.org
Member, Sonoma County Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
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NY Attorney Registration 1883024
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst
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| General Comments |
My collaborative practice is informed by 33 years as a mediator and 30 years of experience as a collaborative attorney, counselor, facilitator, financial neutral and business development professional. I serve businesses, individuals and families in achieving mutually beneficial 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.
My Mediated Family Dialogues can help you and your family gather information, raise and negotiate issues necessary to address estate planning, trust and estate administration issues, and put in place 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; Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts, 2009, CDFA |
| 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 |
CCRE Stepping Stones to Civil and Business Collaborative |
I was instructor |
1 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Collaborative Negotiation |
Sherri Goren Slovin, JD; Victoria Smith |
14 |
| 2008 |
CP Cal-Shrink Wrap Your Collaborative Probate Case: The Role of Mental Health Professionals |
William Andrews, JD, Barbara Bowen, LCSW, MaryClare Lawrence JD |
1.5 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
CP Cal: Tax Consequences of Divorce for the Collaborative Professional |
Hal Bartholomew JD & Beverly Brautigam CPA |
1.5 |
| 2008 |
CP Cal: Envisioning a Healing Process in Cases of Medical Error: A Dialogue on Collaborative Law |
Kathleen Clark, JD, PhD, MAM |
1.5 |
| 2008 |
Mediation Intensive Training Program |
Gary Friedman, JD; Catherine Conner, JD |
32 |
| 2008 |
CCRE Financial Mindfulness: Marital Settlement Agremeent Financial Fitness |
I was instructor |
1 |
| 2009 |
CCRE Neurobiology of Conflct Resolution |
Claudia Bernard, JD |
1 |
| 2009 |
Hofstra School of Law Collaborative Law Conference |
Andy Shepard |
5 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
Trends in Fraud Against the Elderly |
Robin Drummond, JD, Deputy District Attorney, Sonoma County |
1.5 |
| 2009 |
IACP Civil Collaborative Practice Roundtable |
Lynda Robbins, JD/MFT; Kathy Bryan, JD; Michael Zeytoonian, JD; Marshall Yoder, JD |
3 |
| 2009 |
SC Bar Assoc-CCRE Grief Matters: Understanding and Responding to Grief in Estates & Trusts |
Bill Andrews, Dana Curtis, Patrick Thornton, Stacy Carr, Shelley Ocana |
3 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Addressing Bankruptcy Issues That Do or Should Arise in Collaborative Family Law Cases |
Myles Dresslove, JD |
1 |
| 2010 |
CCRE - Collaborative Support for Clients with an Underwater House: Agreement Building, Risk Management and Damage Control |
I was instructor |
1 |
| 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 |
9 |
| 2010 |
CCRE: The Importance of Communication in the Collaborative Process |
Randy Cheek, MFT; Moss Henry MFT, Barbara Bowen, LCSW; Dan Pickar, PhD, Carol Weser, PhD, MFT |
1 |
| 2010 |
Looking Back: Through the Eyes of Adult Children of Divorce |
Amy Rodney, JD; Deborah Billings-Kee, JD, MFT |
2 |
| 2010 |
2010 Collaborative Law Tips for Civil Litigators |
Robert Marmor CFLS, David Berry, JD, Brian Purtill, JD |
1.5 |
| 2010 |
CCRE What's the Brain Got to Do with It: Neurobiology for Collaborative Professionals |
Nancy Cameron, QC |
6.5 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Creating Movement in Collaborative Practice, Mediation & Counseling |
Anat Baniel, MS |
1 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Powerful Non-Defensive Communication |
Sharon Ellison |
7 |
| 2010 |
ABA CCRE Business Applications of Collaborative Practice & Medical Error Collaborative Case & Process Facilitation |
I was instructor |
5 |
| 2010 |
SCBA CCRE Mediation of Estate and Trust Disputes |
Bill Andrews, Hon. Bill Bettinelli, Jack DeMeo, Robert Murray, Kim Marois, Dana Curtis |
3 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Does Investment Strategy Change As One Ages |
William Matz JD, LLM; Bruce Kelm, CFP |
2 |
| 2010 |
CCRE Not in So Many Words: The Forms, Virtues, and Dangers of Implicit Communication |
Robin Lakoff, PhD |
1.5 |
| 2011 |
CCRE From Grievance to Agreement: Adding Forgiveness to Our Collaborative Toolbox |
Ann Busho, PhD |
1 |
| 2011 |
CP Cal-The Biology of Loss: Understanding the Neurological Impact of Impaired Parent/Child Attachment |
Gabor Mate, MD |
1 |
| 2011 |
CP Cal When the Body Says No: Stress-Disease Connection |
Gabor Mate, MD |
3 |
| 2011 |
CP Cal Getting to the Emotional Truth of the Case |
Stephen Sulmeyer, JD, PhD |
1.5 |
| 2011 |
CP Cal Why Collaborative Practice is ”The Good Karma Divorce” |
Hon. Michele Lowrance |
1 |
| 2011 |
CP Cal Beyond Dispute Resolution: Using Peacemaking to Build a Successful Collaborative Practice |
Forrest Mosten |
1 |
| 2011 |
CP Cal Retirement Plans and QDRO's in Collaborative Practice |
Debra Lewis, JD, Terri Breer |
1.5 |
| 2011 |
CCRE Money Together, Money Apart: How to Help Clients Make Peace with Money |
Kathryn Amenta |
1 |
| 2011 |
CCRE Kindness, Compassion and the Art of Difficult Family Conversations |
J. Redwing Keyssar, RN, BA |
1 |
| 2011 |
CCRE Narrative Mediation for Collaborative Professionals |
Chip Rose, JD |
6.5 |
| 2011 |
CCRE Deductibility of Professional Fees in Collaborative Practice |
Robert Maize, JD, CPA, MBA |
1 |
| 2011 |
CCRE The Dynamics of Attention: Boundaries, Intuition and Rapport for Collaborative Professionals |
Glenn Hartelius, Ph.D. |
1 |
| 2011 |
CCRE Violence and the Law |
Robert Revel, LDA |
1 |
| 2011 |
CPI-CCRE No Such Thing as a Bad Kid: A Strengthening Approach for Children and Families |
Charlie Applestein, MSW |
7 |
| 2012 |
CCRE The Application of Gottman Theory to Collaborative Practice |
Michael Basta, LCSW, Marcia Gomez, LCSW |
6.5 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Moving Forward: Team Building and Techniques for Strengthening Professional Team Relationships and Effectiveness in Collaborative Practice Cases |
Donald Rothberg, PhD |
1.5 |
| 2012 |
CPI CCRE Spare the Kids! Best practices designed to facilitate parents in developing healthy child-rearing skills that do not involve physical punishment. |
Stacey Patton, PhD |
3.5 |
| 2012 |
Center for Understanding in Mediation Advanced Looping Mediation Training |
Catherine Conner JD, CFLS; Gary Friedman, JD |
6.5 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Client-Empowering Collaborative and Mediation Strategies for Upside-Down Mortgages, Credit Rehabilitation, Housing Valuations and Transitions |
Claire Spector, JD, CDFA; Robert Fields, CFP, MA |
1 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Building Protective Factors for Children and Adult Siblings in Collaborative Family Law and Trusts & Estates Matters |
Robin Bowen, MFT |
1 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Attending to the Emotional Divorce and Divorce Recovery |
Susan Pease Gadua LCSW |
1 |
| 2012 |
CCRE How to Know You are Working with Passion |
Nancy Anderson |
1 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Living the Plan! Caring for Children with Special Needs and Disabled Spouses After Divorce (Part II): Estate Planning, Tax and Trust Operations Essentials for Collaborative Family Law and Mediation Professionals |
MaryClare Lawrence, JD, Caren Callahan, Esq., LLM (Tax) & Shelley Ocana, Private Professional Fiduciary |
1 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Couples and Money Interdisciplinary Training for Collaborative Lawyers; Mental Health, Financial, Vocational and Conflict Resolution Professionals |
Ute Scott-Smith, ChFC, CDFA; Diana Mendelson, MFT |
1 |
| 2012 |
CCRE The Application of Gottman Theory to Collaborative Practice |
Michael Basta, LCSW; Marcia Gomez, LCSW |
6.5 |
| 2012 |
CCRE Connect Better with your Client: Recognize Sensory Processing Styles |
Carol Weser, PhD, MFT |
1 |
| 2013 |
CCRE Foreclosure: California's Brave New World |
William Matz JD LLM BS |
1 |
| 2013 |
CCRE CPI On Playing a Poor Hand Well, Parts I & II: Insights from the Lives of Those Who Have Overcome Childhood Risks and Adversity |
Mark Katz, PhD |
3.5 |
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| Continuing Education |
| Year |
Education Type |
Instructor |
Hours |
| 1979 |
Institute for Mediation & Conflict Resolution |
David C. Forrest, JD, LLM |
40 |
| 1980 |
Institute for Mediation & Conflict Resolution |
David C. Forrest, JD, LLM |
40 |
| 2008 |
Understanding Based Mediation Intensive |
Gary Friedman, JD; Catherine Conner, CFLS |
32 |
| 2009 |
Differentiating Domestic Violence and High-Conflict |
Joan Kelly, PhD |
7 |
| 2009 |
SCBA Settlement Analysis |
Susan Spar, JD |
1 |
| 2009 |
SCBA Incapacity Planning |
Anne Dennis, JD; Maggie Flynn, JD; Janice Sternfeld, JD |
3 |
| 2009 |
Trends in Fraud Against the Elderly |
Robin Drummond, JD, Deputy District Attorney, Sonoma County |
1.5 |
| 2011 |
Ethical Issues in Pro Bono Representation |
PLI |
2.5 |
| 2011 |
Pro Bono Representation in Low Income Family Law Cases |
PLI |
6 |
| 2011 |
SCBA Elder Mediation |
Dana Curtis, JD |
2 |
| 2011 |
Is it Income Available for Support |
Garrett Dailey, CFLS, AAML |
3 |
| 2011 |
SCBA Defining the Role of Family Therapy in Domestic Violence Cases |
Hon. James Bertoli, Ellen Bowen, Susan Schramm, Denise Frey, John Hamel, Debbie Oliver |
1 |
| 2011 |
SCBA Significant Others in Divorcing Families and the Effects on Children |
Hon. James Bertoli, Veronica Pineda, Marilyn Stender, MFT, Bill Haigwood |
1 |
| 2102 |
Tax, Credit and Other Financial Consequences of Foreclosures, Short Sales and Mortgage Loan Principal Foregiveness |
Maeve Elise Brown, JD; Adetunji Olude, JD; Lisa Sitkin, JD; Lisa Ihm, EA; Lila Fedler, CA FTB |
3.5 |
| 2012 |
PLI CalBar Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Its Value and How it Benefits Low Income Debtors |
Sally J. Elkington, JD; Sarah Lampi Little, JD; Carl Gustafson, JD |
2.5 |
| 2012 |
CalBar PLI The Essential Components of a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Filing |
Sally Elkington, JD; Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux, JD; Jose Alarcon, JD |
7 |
| 2012 |
ABA Recognizing the Warning Signs of Suicide in Your Clients and Colleagues |
Dr. Lanny Berman, PhD, APBB; Erin MacInnes; Allison D. Rhodes, JD |
1.5 |
| 2013 |
SCBA Recent Developments in the Court's ADR Program |
Scott O'Brien, JD |
1 |
| 2013 |
SCBA The Transference and Countertransference Matrix in Family Law Relationships |
Daniel Pickar, PhD. Thomas Wright, JD |
1 |
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