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Pauline H. Tesler
Pauline H. Tesler is a long-time specialist in family law (certified by the State Bar of California since 1984) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She co-founded the IACP and was its first President, co-founded The Collaborative Review (for which she wrote the 'Dear Collaborator' column), and chaired IACP's first Standards Committee and first Ethics Task Force.
Her critically-acclaimed practice manual, Collaborative Law: Achieving Effective Resolution in Divorce Without Litigation, was the first book-length treatise for collaborative lawyers. A substantially revised second edition was released in 2008. She co-authored (with psychologist Peggy Thompson) Collaborative Divorce: The Revolutionary New Way to Restructure Your Family, Resolve Legal Issues, and Move On With Your Life, published in 2006 by HarperCollins, and intended for general readers and as a practice development tool for collaborative lawyers. She has written numerous essays, law review articles, and book chapters about collaborative practice.
Pauline has introduced many thousands of lawyers and other professionals to collaborative practice in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. She provides interdisciplinary and lawyer-only trainings and practice group/practice development workshops at all levels. Recently, her focus for training and writing has turned to the psychology and neuroscience of conflict resolution, and to the systems-based learning environment created on highly effective interdisciplinary collaborative teams.
in addition to trainings, Pauline provides mentoring, coaching, and case consultation to professionals whose cases are in difficulty, and online mentoring and study groups for collaborative professionals interested in ongoing, in-depth enrichment of their collaborative skills and understandings.
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Pauline and Stu Webb jointly received the first 'Lawyer as Problem Solver'award from the American Bar Association in 2002. She was a recipient of the first 'Eureka' award from the statewide organization 'Collaborative Practice California,' and is listed in 'Best Lawyers in America.'
More information about her trainings, writings, and biography can be found on her blog, www.collaborativedivorcenews.com, and at her website, www.lawtsf.com.
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163 Miller Avenue, Suite 4
Mill Valley CA 94941 USA
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415-383-5600 |
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teslercollaboration@lawtsf.com |
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http://teslercollaboration.com; collaborativedivorcenews.com
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| Education |
B.A. cum laude, Harvard University;
M.A. Victoria University of Manchester (England;
J.D. magna cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School
My complete C.V. can be found at http://lawtsf.com/cv_fall_2010.pdf
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| Professional Licenses |
Admitted to Wisconsin and California State Bar Associations, United States District Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and United States Supreme Court
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| Type Of Practice |
Collaborative Family Law
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| Training Offered |
I offer trainings in basic, intermediate, and advanced collaborative practice, in two-day and three-day formats, for lawyers and (with trainers from other disciplines) for interdisciplinary teams. I also offer practice group development workshops in one and two-day formats, as well as advanced seminars focused on a variety of specific challenges in collaborative practice. Recently, I have been offering workshops in 'Neuro-Resolution,' applying insights from the evolutionary neurosciences to collaborative conflict resolution. In addition, I offer mentoring and case conferencing services online and via telephone and video conferencing, as well as guest presentations in law school courses relating to appropriate (aka alternate) dispute resolution, and legal ethics.
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| Training Conducted |
I have conducted all of the foregoing trainings more times than I have kept any records about, since 1999, on my own and co-training with a variety of colleagues including Peggy Thompson, Nancy Ross, Stu Webb, Maria Alba-Fisch, George Richardson, Mark Hill, Chip Rose, Yuval Berger, David Fink, and many others.
I ordinarily conduct six to eight full length multi-day trainings a year, and sometimes more, which--over a decade--means I've presented about 70 or 80 trainings, plus many seminars, workshops, and other smaller events each year. Trainings and seminars above the introductory level are customized to meet the specific needs of the community sponsoring the event.
I have had the great privilege of introducing collaborative law and collaborative divorce practice as a new model, providing first trainings and workshops in many U.S. states and communities (including Hawaii, Texas, Massachusetts, Colorado, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Florida,) as well as in Vancouver, B.C.; Niagara Falls, Canada; London and Manchester, England; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Dublin, Cork, and Galway, Ireland; Paris, France; Berne, Switzerland; Sydney and Brisbane, Australia; Aukland, New Zealand; and Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel. In Manhattan, I was asked by the Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court to design and present a two-phase program of interdisciplinary team training for professionals who would provide services in her landmark publicly funded collaborative law center. In Ireland, my trainings were conducted largely under the auspices of the Legal Aid Board of Ireland. The trainings I recently conducted in Israel, with Yuval Berger, were under the sponsorship of the United States Embassy, the Israeli Bar Association, and the Israel Ministry of Justice.
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| Collaborative Training Attended |
I have attended trainings and forum workshops and institutes presented by, or have co-trained with: Stu Webb, Chip Rose, Nancy Cameron, Susan Gamache, Liz Ferris, Victoria Smith, Catherine Conner and Margaret Anderson, Maria Alba-Fisch, Sharon Ellison (ongoing in depth monthly workshops plus week-long retreat), Peggy Thompson and Nancy Ross, George Richardson, Mark Hill, and others.
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| Collaborative Training Offered |
The full list is too long to include here, numbering over 100 as of early 2011.
I have been privileged to introduce collaborative law and collaborative divorce practice as a new model in many jurisdictions in North America, including: California, Hawaii, Texas, Massachusetts, Colorado, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, Missouri/Kansas, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, and British Columbia (Canada).
I presented what I believe to be the first collaborative training events to be supported by governmental entities (in the United States, Ireland, and Israel). The Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court invited me to design and present a two-phase program of interdisciplinary team trainings in New York for professionals who would then provide services in her landmark publicly funded collaborative law center which her office launched and funded in Manhattan. In Ireland, my trainings (which took place over a period of five years and ultimately trained several hundred collaborative divorce lawyers) were conducted primarily under the auspices of the Legal Aid Board of Ireland. The trainings I recently conducted in Israel with Yuval Berger, were under the joint sponsorship of the United States Department of State, the Israeli Bar Association, and the Israel Ministry of Justice.
The full list of trainings and workshops I have conducted since the late 1990s numbers well over a hundred.
Representative recent U.S. collaborative trainings include these:
Advanced interdisciplinary collaborative practice seminars , Collaborative Family Law Practice of Marin (Marin County, CA), 2007-2008
Series of two-day interdisciplinary collaborative trainings sponsored by Supreme Court of State of New York, 2007-2008
Advanced three day collaborative practice seminars (with David Fink) at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Law School, Malibu , California and Woodstock, Vermont, 2008
Advanced one-day collaborative practice seminar, Gig Harbor, Washington , November 2008
Intermediate Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Seminar, Portland, Oregon, November 2008
Intermediate Collaborative Divorce workshop, Arlington, Virginia, December 2008
Interdisciplinary Advanced Collaborative Practice Workshop (with Peggy Thompson), Silver Spring, MD, March 2009
Refresher Introductory/Intermediate Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice training,
Ventura, California , January 2009
Three-day advanced seminar in 'Neurocollaboration' with Tom Lewis, M.D., Straus
Dispute Resolution Institute, Malibu California and Woodstock, Vermont, 2009 and 2010
Workshop series in 'Practical Neuro-Resolution' , Collaborative Family Law Practice of
Marin (Marin County, CA), March and April 2011
Ongoing three-hour advanced collaborative workshops for the 'Green Group,' a
collaborative practice study group located in San Francisco, CA, 2007-present. The most
recent of these, on March 14, 2011, was entitled: Practical Neuro-Collaboration.'
I have conducted these collaborative trainings and workshops outside North America:
Numerous introductory, intermediate, and advanced trainings in London and
Manchester, England (sponsored by Family Law in Partnership and by Resolution) that
ultimately trained nearly 1000 British solicitors in collaborative legal practice and
launched the collaborative movement in the United Kingdom, 2003-2006
Series of introductory and intermediate collaborative trainings in Edinburgh and
Glasgow, Scotland that launched and supported collaborative practice in that country,
2004-2007.
Numerous introductory and intermediate collaborative trainings that launched and
supported collaborative practice in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2004--- 2008
Numerous introductory, intermediate, and advanced collaborative trainings that
launched and supported collaborative practice in Dublin, Cork, and Galway, Ireland,
2004 -2008
Introductory workshop presentation on collaborative law (the first in France), Paris Bar
Association, Paris, France, 2006
Introductory two-day training in collaborative legal practice and day-long practice group
workshop that launched collaborative practice in Switzerland, Berne, Switzerland, 2006
Series of introductory two-day trainings, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, 2007
Introductory presentation and collaborative workshop (the first in the country),
Auckland, New Zealand, 2007
Advanced one-day collaborative practice workshop, Sydney, Australia, March 2009
Series of three-day basic interdisciplinary trainings (with Yuval Berger), Tel Aviv, Israel
(two separate three day trainings that launched collaborative divorce practice in Israel),
plus introductory
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| References |
The following are references for recent U.S. Trainings and for events conducted outside North America; see bottom for key to annotation symbols:
Kimberly Fauss (Richmond, VA): kimberlyfauss@newgrowthventures.com
Sandra Rosenbloom (Chicago, IL): sandra@rosenbloomlaw.com
carlMichael Rossi* (Chicago, IL) [both coach and lawyer]: cMr@cpchicago.net
Fred Glassman (Los Angeles, CA): fglassman@mglawcorp.com
Mark Weiss (Seattle, WA): mweiss@mark-weiss.com
Felicia Malsby (Gig Harbor, WA): MalsbyLaw@aol.com
Barbara Bartlett (Tulsa, OK): Barbara@dontfightaboutit.com
Iris Burke (Gainsville, FL): burke@law.ufl.edu
Bob Merlin (Miami, FL): rmerlin@merlinlaw.com
Darcy Shoop (Tacoma Park, MD): dshoop@darcyshoop.com
Ali Dansker Doyle (MD): Adoylelaw@aol.com
Maria Alba-Fisch* (White Plains, NY):
MariaAlbaFisch@aol.com
Lisa Schneider** (San Francisco, CA): Lisa.8@schneiderfa.com
David Fink (San Francisco, CA): david@nachlisfink.com
Emily Weaver*(Oakland, CA): emily@eweavermft.com
Andrew Hoffman **(New Orleans, LA): lacdfa@bellsouth.net
George Richardson (Palo Alto, CA): gbr@gbr-law.com
Ed Buckle (Ventura, CA): etb93001@yahoo.com
Suzan Barrie-Aiken (Sausalito, CA): sbaiken@earthlink.net
Yuval Berger* (Vancouver, BC, Canada): yuval@gmail.com
Patricia Mallon (Cork, Ireland): patriciamallon@gmail.com
Eamonn Carroll (Cork, Ireland): ecarroll@nlcc.ie
Brid Manifold (Galway, Ireland): brid.manifold@gmail.com
Joe Maguire (Dublin, Ireland): http://www.maguiremcneice.ie
James Stewart (London, England): james.stewart@manches.com
Gillian Bishop (London, England): gb@flip.co.uk
Ruth Smallacombe* (London, England): rs@flip.co.uk
Richard Sharp (Bath, England): richard@sharpfamilylaw.com
William Hogg (Cambridge, England): williamhogg@cflp.co.uk
Jane Oakes (Cambridge, England): jmo@collaborativechambers.co.uk
Cath Karlin (Edinburgh, Scotland): ckarlin@hbj-gw.com
Gillian Crandles (Edinburgh, Scotland): gillian.crandles@turcanconnell.com
Anne Dick (Glasgow, Scotland): anne.dick@mhdlaw.co.uk
John Reavey (Belfast, Northern Ireland): j.reavey@reavey-ni.com
Charlotte Butruille (Paris, France): c.butruille-cardew@droitfamille.com
Christophe Imhoos (Geneva, Switzerland) [mentoring relationship, not training]: ci@imhoos-law.ch
Michal Kaempfer (Raanana, Israel): michal.kaempfer@gmail.com
Michal Shaked (Haifa, Israel): shakedmichal@gmail.com
Randy Tischler*(Raanana, Israel): randy.tischler@gmail.com
Cassandra Pullos (Brisbane AU): cjp@cassandrapulloslawyers.com.au
Beverly Clark (Adelaide AU): bc@bc-lawyers.com.au
Christopher Swan (Adelaide AU): swan@swanlawyers.com.au
Key to annotation symbols:
= person who has co-trained with me
* = collaborative mental health professional/coach
** = collaborative financial neutral
Those not otherwise noted are collaborative lawyers
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| Standards |
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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I have reviewed the IACP Minimum Standards for Collaborative Trainers I verify that I am a Collaborative Practice trainer who meets those Minimum Standards.
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I have reviewed the IACP Minimum Standards for a Collaborative Basic Training. I verify that the basic training that I offer as a Collaborative Practice trainer meets those Minimum Standards.
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