Attorney Members in
Asheville, North Carolina
Christopher Craig, J.D.
Craig & Associates PC
The Public Service Building
34 Wall Street, Suite 400
Asheville, NC 28801
Chris@ChrisCraigLaw.com
http://ChrisCraigLaw.com/
Office: 828 258 2888
Fax: 866 846 3492
Barbara A. Davis, J.D.
Office location:
The Public Service Building
34 Wall Street, Suite 401
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 604
Asheville, NC 28802
bdavis@main.nc.us
www.BarbaraAnnDavis.com
Office: 828 281 0446
FAX 828 285 0446
J. Kim Wright, J. D.
Healers of Conflicts
Law & Conflict Resolution Center
Office Location:
The Flat Iron Building, Suite 708
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 306
Asheville, NC 28802
jkimwright@healersofconflicts.com
www.healersofconflicts.com
Office: 828 253 3355
Fax: 828 255 3315
Interdisciplinary Team Members
Why Choose a Member of Collablaw.org?
Under our ethical rules, lawyers cannot guarantee an outcome to your case, but we can more easily guarantee a process if your spouse works with a lawyer who has completed a training that complies with the guidelines established by the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, IACP. The lawyers above are all members of IACP and lead trainings that comply with the IACP minimum requirements for training. As a team, we have trained several lawyers currently practicing in Asheville. We have all made an agreement that we will not litigate family matters and require all lawyer members of Collablaw.org to do the same. Not all the lawyers we've trained have made the same agreement and therefore not all are members of Collablaw.org. We will provide you with names of other collaborative lawyers if you request them.
If your spouse uses a lawyer who is a member of Collablaw.org or has been trained by us, then we can assure that the process will be one that you (and your lawyer) can lean against when things get difficult. (Things always get difficult). When the conversation is hard, when the issues are thorny, trained collaborative lawyers working with other trained collaborative lawyers use the strengths of the process to help keep the adversity from overtaking the parties. Rather than resorting to our typical lawyer tools (fists on tables, threats of court, promises of increased adversity, warnings of unpleasant outcomes for the other), as trained, committed collaborative lawyers working with other trained collaborative lawyers, we are able to negotiate as adults, peaceably, without resorting to those traditional tools which escalate violent responses. With two trained collaborative lawyers working together to help a couple through this inevitably difficult time, we are able to lean against a process which powerfully preserves dignity for all involved. We are able to have the difficult conversations, without rancor. Without breakdown.
Without threats of court. This requires unlearning the tools lawyers typically use.
To find a collaborative practitioner in other areas, see www.collaborativepractice.com