Summer 2019: Becoming a Family Lawyer

    Vol. 53 No. 2   May 2020

    Domestic Relations

    Becoming a Family Lawyer

    Samuel V. Schoonmaker IV

    The Summer 2019 issue focuses on some of the approaches, strategies, and tools that transform a lawyer into a successful family lawyer.

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    Features

    Domestic Relations

    Confronting the Challenge of the High-Conflict Personality in Family Court

    Esther Rosenfeld & Michelle Oberman with Jordan Bernard & Erika Lee

    Most family law cases resolve relatively swiftly, but “a profoundly dysfunctional subset of cases” do not. Rather, these are fueled by “high-conflict personalities” and a system that seems to facilitate conflict. The authors designed a qualitative survey to better understand the phenomenon, and they propose a range of pragmatic, systemic reforms.