Divorce Law: BasicsPlus! (Recorded)

If you want to launch a successful divorce practice, here’s your chance. In this popular BasicsPlus!® program, the best divorce counsel in Massachusetts provide hands-on workshops, demonstrations, interactive dialogue and information-packed lectures - all designed to teach you the fundamental skills critical to representing your clients. This two-day immersion features hours of training; get your questions answered!

Begin with a fast-moving presentation of core concepts, statutory authority, significant cases, and a review of procedural rules you need to know to navigate divorce litigation. Then it’s time for live demos on conducting client interviews, preparing financial statements, arguing motions before a judge, and negotiating and settling the terms of separation agreements to obtain the very best outcome for your client. Your takeaways from this extraordinary two-day experience? New procedural and strategic knowledge, new understanding of the law of divorce, and a new confidence to jumpstart your career as a divorce lawyer.

You will lear:

• How to establish and maintain a solid working relationship with your client
• What it takes to make your practice impeccably professional, civil, and ethical
• How to conduct an exhaustive intake and critically assess your client’s end game and chances for success
• How to negotiate the most advantageous custody and visitation arrangement for your client
• What tax consequences to anticipate in the division of assets, and how to know when to call in an expert

Special interactive sessions

• Fee Arrangements, Jurisdiction and Venue Issues, Effective Economical Case Management, Client Billing and How to Collect Your Fees
• The Financial Statement, The Mandatory Disclosure of Documents, Asset-Related Restraining Orders to Protect Your Client’s Financial Wellbeing
• Getting Your Client Relief with Temporary Orders, Gleaning Facts Through Well-Conducted Depositions, Interacting Successfully with Probation Officers of the Probate and Family Court
• Negotiating Optimal Settlements and Managing Clients and Opposing Counsel in Four-Way Conferences, Working Ethically and Productively with the Pro-Se Opponent