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Lynda J. Robbins is a collaborative lawyer and
family law mediator with over twenty-five years experience.
Lynda's practice areas include wills and estates, divorce, legal
separation, custody, visitation and parenting plans, child
support, alimony, modification and post-divorce issues, paternity,
guardianship, prenuptial agreements, property division and
allocation of assets and debts, and move away/relocation issues.
She also does court-appointed and private work as Guardian ad Litem in family
and estate matters including divorce and custody disputes, parent
coordinator and visitation monitor.
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- J.D. Suffolk University Law
School
- B.A. magna cum laude, Suffolk University
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- Mediation of all family disputes
including divorce, post-divorce (modifications) and marital
mediation
- Collaborative Family Law
Practice
- Court-appointed Guardian ad
Litem
- Parent/Visitation Coordinator
- Visitation Monitor
- Family Law Settlement
Counselor
- Custody, visitation and parenting
plans
- Case Evaluation
- Drafting Agreements
- Probate work including wills,
Estates, guardianships and conservatorships
- Health care proxies and Durable
Powers of Attorney
- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
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- Licensed to practice law in
Massachusetts since 1979
- Admitted, District of Massachusetts,
1980
- Admitted, Supreme Court, 1984
- Mediation training with Divorce
Mediation Training Associates, October 1989
- Parenting Coordination:
Working with High Conflict Families Training with Robin M.
Deutsch and Hon. Eileen M. Shaevel, May 2006
- Collaborative Law Training with
Pauline Tesler, April 2000
- Conflict Resolution Training with
Chip Rose, May, 2003 and June, 2005
- Conflict Resolution Training with
Jeffrey Kerr, June, 2005
- Collaborative Law Interdisciplinary
Training with MCLC, May, 2004
- Advanced Collaborative Practice
Workshop with Sherri Goren Slovin and Victoria Smith, May
2006
- Instructor—Collaborative Law Trainings sponsored by Mass. Collaborative Law Council, 2002-2006
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- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Greater Lowell Bar Association
- Board of Directors and Clerk,
Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, Founding member and
former president
- President, Massachusetts Council on
Family Mediation
- International Academy of
Collaborative Professionals, Board
of Directors
- Chair, IACP Civil
Collaborative Committee
- Co-Founder, Merrimack Valley Mediators Group
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- Northern Middlesex Bar Association Legal Ease video presentations:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Divorce law
- Adoption
- Child Custody In Divorce
- Divorce Mediation
- Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminars:
- November 1999, GALs in
Guardianship and Domestic Relations Cases
- July 2003, Paralegal Conference: ADR and Mediation
- International Academy of Collaborative Professionals:
- October 2005, 6th Annual Networking and Educational Forum
The 'Art' of Four-Way Meetings Panel
Workshop
- October 2006 7th Annual Networking and Educational Forum
Professions Colliding: Addressing the Tension Between
Mediation and Collaborative Practice Panel Workshop
- Boston Bar Association:
- January 2006, How to Help Clients Avoid the 'Stranger in the Black Robe' Mediation and Collaborative Law Practice
- Association for Conflict Resolution,
Family Section Mid-Year Conference 2006:
Mediating Happily Ever After: Marital Mediation and
the Fairy Tale Complex
- New England ACR 2007
Conference: Expanding the Toolbox: Collaborative
Practice for Family and Civil Dispute Resolution
- Massachusetts
Council on Family Mediation: MARITAL MEDIATION: How Couples
Can Use Mediation to Change the Terms of Their
Marriage
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Massachusetts Council
on Family Mediation: Collaborative Law and Mediation: A Symbiotic
Relationship
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