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Conversations from the coalface of the family law system in Australia. For more see www.mediationanswers.com.au
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Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"Level the playing field" - Jack O'Donnell on funding in family law matters and their latest survey results at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- Jack O'Donnell on his career and role as co founder and co CEO of JustFund.
- The goals of JustFund to level the playing field and assist parties that would otherwise struggle to pay legal fees.
- The outcome of a recent survey by JustFund.
- Around 40% of clients change legal representation i.e. clients "vote with their feet."
- As much as outcome, the way a client is treated along the way matters. "A soft touch" helps or rather soft skills ie listening and clients feeling heard.
- What is next for JustFund? There may be further services offered such as psychologist, counsellors etc as well as legal funding.
Reach Jack O'Donnell https://justfund.com.au/about-us/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"Intelligent questions" Paul Psaltis on how clients providing information actually is the beginning of engagement at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- Context to Paul's career at Settify (CEO of Settify).
- The forms that Settify provide for clients to fill in and how the types of questions adapt depending on what clients fill in. These are "intelligent questions" adapted to the client.
- Data on how clients using such forms and providing information makes them more likely to retain solicitors.
- The FLENA conference.
Reach Paul Psaltis https://settify.com/our-team/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"How that might impact their children" - Laura Donnelly on social media at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- Context to Laura's career and work.
- Anti publication laws and social media.
- Posting on social media. Common mistakes clients may make in disclosing on social media.
- How lawyers use social media to look up the other party etc.
- Children's social media.
Reach Laura Donnelly at https://www.holmesdonnelly.com.au/who-we-are/laura-donnelly/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"That's sort of magic" - Christian Beck on how AI can resolve many pain points for family lawyers at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- Leaps products the include AI
- Matter AI
- Law AI
- The prompts AI in Leap uses.
- Rapid uptake of AI by Leap users, around 25% are using Matter AI.
- How the AI works with the file to locate documents and save hours of time. AI works to locate for example letters that relate to a certain issue and that is "sort of magic" in how much time is saved for lawyers. AI as being able to address the issues around how document dense family law is.
- AI being used to help clients and help clients connect with the right lawyer for them.
Reach Christian Beck at https://www.leaplegalsoftware.com/leadership/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"Cognitive empathy" - Lara Wentworth on the space between clients and lawyers at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- History of Lara's career.
- Coaching Advocates.
- Talk at the FLENA conference and emotional boundaries.
- Risk of being too connected to clients and overwhelmed by their situation VS not connecting enough and being cold, clinical.
- Emotional empathy VS cognitive empathy.
- What is next for Coaching Advocates.
Reach Lara Wentworth at https://www.larawentworth.com.au/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"Clients are going to expect it" - Fiona Kirkman on AI in family law at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- By 2027, 44% of our work in family law will have been altered by AI.
- History of Fiona Kirkman's work in family law technology.
- Soon clients will expect lawyers to have some understanding of how and when to use AI.
- Matter AI and the legal prompts it uses and how the AI technology works.
Reach Fiona Kirkman at https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionakirkman/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
"Divorce done differently" - Shelby Timmins on different approaches to family law at the 2024 FLENA conference.
- History of Divorce Done Differently - one of the first models for one place where lawyers and clients could access quality alternative dispute resolution services.
- Shelby's views on burnout, work life balance.
- Collaborative approaches in family law.
- The future of ADR and interdisciplinary approaches.
Reach Shelby Timmins at https://www.divorcedonedifferently.com.au/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
- Grant's experience with burnout.
- What is burnout? what causes it? How to heal from it?
- For what purpose at what cost. When to say yes and no. The soft no.
- Make your energy a resource that you value. You don't just give away your energy.
- Making mindful decisions about where to place time and energy.
Reach Grant at https://www.grantherbert.com/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
- Statistics on why people end relationships.
- Stages of grief process.
- Hindu and Chinese marriage Acts.
- Reasons for divorce.
- No fault divorce. Benefits of this. However unintended flow on effect is we have depersonalised people. Not seeking to understand why people separate.
- Healthy masculinity and how some men turn to drugs, alcohol, women, gambling and the gym - "for some reason they get into fitness.. they don't deal with the underlying issues".
Reach Angelo at https://myraaris.com.au/
Find out about FLENA at https://familylawedu.com.au/
Reach interviewer Zoe Durand at www.mediationanswers.com.au
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
"the wider family law umbrella" why Rafton's sponsor at Pacifica Congress, Cairns, 2024
- Sponsoring coffee cart at Pacifica Congress.
- RAMP - Rafton's Arbitration and Mediation Practice
- Maurice Edwards, and his role at RAMP
- sponsorship and importance of interdisiplinary conferences with input from social scientists and psychologists and all those in the wider family law umbrella.
- History of Rafton's and Kate's legal career.
- offices - Hawkesbury, Penrith, Glenmore Park, Macarthur office, Sydney, Parramatta office. Balmain - care and protection.
- Discussion of arbitration. Why is there reluctance to recommend Arbitration? Some practitioners may have a lack of confidence re the process. Maurice Edwards
- Kate's interest in the coverage of blended families at the conference. Difference parenting styles, attachment issues. Time arrangements.