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Karen J Levitt, JD
(Lawyer/Mediator)
Karen J. Levitt is a collaborative law attorney, mediator, and trainer with over 25 years of experience in family law. She is a founding member and a past president of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, and is very active in her collaborative community including designing educational programs and trainings in collaborative practice and mediation for professionals and the public. Karen is the principal of the Levitt Law Group, a small office dedicated to providing personal and quality legal services to clients. Karen and her colleagues at The Levitt Law Group recognize that each client is unique, and that every case is different. Karen and her office provide clients with choices and options to help them decide for themselves what process will best achieve their deisred result, and how to reach that result in a respectful and dignified manner. She and her staff work with clients to find non-adversarial and creative solutions to their legal problems, that best fit them, their families, and their resources.
Attorney Levitt has a law degree from Boston University School of Law, and is licensed in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She has been active in state and local bar associations, professional and civic organizations, and has been a speaker and trainer on collaborative practice, mediation, litigation, and family law issues both to the public and to members of the legal and other profession both within and outside of Massachusetts. She has also taught legal research and writing at Boston University School of Law, and has had several publications in the areas of collaborative practice and mediation. More information can be obtained on her website at www.LevittLawGroup.com.
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Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, board member and past president
Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, former board member
Merrimack Valley Mediator's Group, founding member
IACP member
Massachusetts Bar Association, ADR committee
Greater Lowell Bar Association, past president
Collaborative Law Alliance of New Hampshire
AFCC
ACR
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution, Education Subcommittee Chair
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| Professional Licenses |
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J.D.
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| General Comments |
| I am committed to the use of collaborative practice and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, as a means of helping families resolve their legal disputes in a non-adversarial, respectful, and dignified manner. I am active in my collaborative community and continue to work toward the advancement of peaceful resolution of family law conflicts through both collaborative practice and mediation. |
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| Areas of Practice |
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Family Law
Mediation
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| Education |
| Undergraduate Education |
University of Birmingham, England
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (B.A. History, with honors) 1977 |
| Professional Education |
| Boston University School of Law, J.D. 1980 |
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| Collaborative Practice Training |
| Year |
Training Type |
Instructor |
Hours |
| 1991 |
Basic Mediation Training |
Divorce Mediation Training Associates |
40 |
| 1992 |
Advanced Mediation Skills |
Divorce Mediation Training Associates |
16 |
| 2000 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
Pauline Tesler |
8 |
| 2001 |
Advanced Mediation Skills (Pepperdine University School of Law) |
Nine Meierding and Chip Rose |
20 |
| 2002 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLE Boston) |
I was instructor |
6 |
| 2002 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC Andover) |
I was instructor |
6 |
| 2002 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (BBA Boston) |
I was instructor |
6 |
| 2003 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (Vermont Trial Lawyers Association) |
I was instructor |
4 |
| 2003 |
Conflict Resolution Training |
Chip Rose |
16 |
| 2003 |
Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Law Training |
Collaborative Law Institute of Georgia |
12 |
| 2004 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC/WNSL Springfield) |
I was instructor |
9 |
| 2004 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC/MCLE Boston) |
I was instructor |
10 |
| 2005 |
Conflict Resolution Training |
Jeffrey Kerr |
8 |
| 2005 |
Conflict Resolution Training |
Chip Rose |
4 |
| 2005 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC/MCLE Boston) |
I was instructor |
9 |
| 2005 |
Advanced Conflict Resolution Training |
Harvard Program on Negotiation |
18 |
| 2006 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC Pittsfield, MA) |
I was instructor |
8.5 |
| 2006 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC Boston) |
I was instructor |
13 |
| 2006 |
Advanced Collaborative Law Training |
Smith/Slovin |
6 |
| 2007 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training (MCLC Boston) |
I was instructor |
9 |
| 2008 |
Advanced Collaborative Interdisciplinary training |
Linda Solomon |
12 |
| 2008 |
Massachusetts Bar Association Basic Collaborative Law Training (civil) |
Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council |
12 |
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** I have reviewed the IACP Minimum Standards for Collaborative Practitioners and the IACP Ethical Standards for Collaborative Professionals. I verify that I meet the IACP Minimum Standards for Collaborative Practitioners and that I apply the IACP Ethical Standards for Collaborative Professionals in my collaborative practice.
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