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Navigating post-divorce co-parenting is never an easy or straightforward journey, but effective communication – including active listening and delayed reactions – can help smooth the path. Using both her perspective as a family law attorney and her own experience as a parent navigating divorce and co-parenting, Pollock Begg Partner Elisabeth W. Molnar offers insight, practical advice and strategies on effective co-parenting in her recent commentary in The Legal Intelligencer. Molnar […]

In her family law practice at Pollock Begg and through her involvement in the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh divorce attorney Lindsay A. Nemit has seen families reap incredible benefits from the communicative nature of the collaborative divorce process. Collaborative law is an alternative to litigation that allows the parties to focus on values, interests, and priorities they still share. It provides families with children resources to open […]

The collaborative law process is empowering to both clients and attorneys. Discovering ways to break communication barriers and zero in on both parties’ needs and desires in each case is satisfying. What’s not to love about a process that helps clients, but also yields creative and concrete dividends for the collaborative professionals? From teamwork, to snacks with a purpose to watching families begin to heal, collaborative law provides numerous ways […]

Pollock Begg Partner Stephanie L. Jablon, a collaboratively trained and certified family law attorney, aggressively works to amicably resolve a variety of cases and has seen alternative dispute resolution options become increasingly popular. However, few clients take advantage of the full collaborative divorce process, according to Jablon and may be missing out on many of its benefits. Misconceptions about how collaborative divorce works may be behind clients’ slow embrace of […]

  PITTSBURGH  — Three additional divorce attorneys at Pittsburgh family law firm Pollock Begg recently completed training and certification in collaborative law, bringing the firm’s total number of collaboratively trained lawyers to eight.   Partner Brian C. Vertz and associates Ashley M. Majorsky and Lindsay A. Nemit are newly certified through the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania and became members of both CLASP and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.   Putting clients’ interests at the center, the collaborative process helps families resolve divorce, child custody and other […]

Pittsburgh divorce attorney and partner Joseph R. Williams, discusses traditional litigation versus collaborative divorces.   Joe is a partner at Pollock Begg with collaborative training and certification from the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania. He was recognized as the 2022 Pittsburgh “Lawyer of the Year” in Family Law Arbitration by Best Lawyers in America and is a proven leader and an energetic force on the Pittsburgh legal scene, serving […]