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Article: Divorce without poison; A family-law innovation empties Medicine Hat courtrooms and gains attention around the continent.(collaborative law)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Report Newsmagazine
- Article date:
- March 4, 2002
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Stu Webb was an old-fashioned family lawyer for almost 20 years, from 1971 to 1990. That was about when the crisis hit. "Family law involves dealing with negativity constantly," he says from his office in Minneapolis. "You seldom end up with a happy client...By 1988 I pretty much decided I had had it. I was feeling besieged." Despondent, he started shopping around for a new career by auditing psychology courses at the University of Minnesota. He took some courses, but soon realized he was too old to start a PhD from scratch. "But since I was willing to chuck my career anyway, I figured maybe I could find a new way to look at it-some way of functioning as a family lawyer, ...