What do we mean when we say that we are “specialists in preventative law”?
Consider the following quote taken from The State of Justice speech given by Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in 1984:

"The entire legal profession… has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the courtroom contest, that we tend to forget that we ought to be healers of conflict… trial by adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood… our system has become too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for truly civilized people."

Although over 25 years have passed since those words were uttered, they still ring true today. When we say that we are specialists in preventative law, what we mean, quite simply, is that we try to use our legal skills in creative and often non-traditional ways to solve problems for our clients. In employing the processes of mediation and collaborative law, we endeavor to be the healers of conflict envisioned by Chief Justice Burger and hope to minimize the costs, pain, and destruction experienced by our clients as they navigate the legal system.