Preventive Law

• Discover the risks you are assuming and what you can do about them
• Learn how you can design your business, estate plan, or other legal matter consciously
• Discover the legal issues that can affect you and save legal fees while doing it
• Learn how you can design your relationships from a place of creation rather than protection

Sometimes the best approach to a potential legal issue is to prevent it from ever happening at all. The preventive law approach is aimed at assessing your risks BEFORE there is an issue and putting in safeguards so you'll reduce the risk that you'll need to go to court.

On average, a lawsuit costs over $7,500 whether you win or not. And that doesn't take into account the time you spent thinking about it, going to court, sitting in your lawyer's office, or gathering information for the lawsuit. It definitely doesn't consider the emotional, psychological, and spiritual pain that being involved in extended conflict can cost you.

No one wants to be sued. Unfortunately, some make the mistake of ignoring legal and ethical risks rather than consciously facing them and doing something about them. Sometimes it seems easier to avoid knowing what we are risking than it would be to be fully awake and paying attention to those risks.

What if you could improve your business dealings and minimize your risk? What if preventing a legal problem is really about clear, conscious communication and creating good relationships?

There is risk in every thing we undertake. Getting out of the bed is risky but staying in bed is too! And, each of us is comfortable with a different amount of risk. Like any business or anything else we do in life, being in business includes some risks. A lawyer could spend many hours of research to consider all the risks of your business. And most lawyers would recommend that you do everything possible to avoid risk, no matter what your comfort level with risk. What if you could determine how much risk you are comfortable with and assume only that much risk?

Four years ago, Kim wrote the Legal Toolkit for the Conscious Coach. It is still the only legal toolkit for the professional coaching industry. In the Legal Toolkit, Kim looked at many approaches to risk management. She learned about risk issues in investing strategies and became interested in the idea of assuming the level of risk that is within your comfort zone.  Most of her forms were general business forms created with coaching in mind.

The truth is that you can buy almost any type of legal form on the Internet these days. In the Legal Toolkit, Kim designed many legal forms for coaches. But Kim's forms were not one-size fits all forms. They were written to create something with clients and customers.  They're forms that create relationships, not forms focused on protecting you from the most remote risks that you could imagine. They're forms written in plain English that anyone can understand.

At the Healers of Conflicts Law & Conflict Resolution Center, we can help you review your risks and create ways of preventing problems.

 

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