Irwin Venick practices law in Nashville, focusing on the areas of employment and civil rights, disability, general litigation, health care and non-profit corporations. Irwin’s employment practice includes all areas of discrimination on the basis of race, age, sex, disability, national origin and religion, whistleblower claims and...
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Irwin Kuhn brings over 20 years of wide-ranging legal and mediation experience to Dobbins and Venick law firm in Nashville. Irwin handles family law cases including divorce law and post-divorce matters. He also assists clients with health care and end of life planning, including preparation of health care directives and living wills for...
Mediation
Dobbins and Venick attorneys are experienced in representing clients in mediation. Two of them, Irwin Venick and Irwin Kuhn are specially trained and certified as mediators under Rule 31 of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Irwin Venick is certified for general civil cases; Irwin Kuhn for general civil cases and for family law disputes. Mediation is a very effective process in which people or companies with disputes attempt to resolve their differences without going to court. Mediation often helps keep down the cost of litigation by resolving differences early, without the expense of preparing and trying cases in court. Perhaps most important, mediation reduces the uncertainty of trial and allows parties to reach their own decisions.
When they work as mediators, Irwin Kuhn and Irwin Venick do not act as attorneys for a party in the case. While their experience as attorneys helps parties evaluate their cases, they are neutrals who do not give legal advice.
The American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section created an excellent overview of mediation. It can be found at this link:
http://www.abanet.org/dispute/flash/abadr_gettingtoknowmediation.html
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A comparision of outcomes of mediations and going to court was the subject of a 12 year study by Dr. Robert Emery, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Children, Families, and the Law. Here is a link to a summary of his findings: http://emeryondivorce.com/...
COLLABORATIVE FAMILY LAW COMES TO NASHVILLE
(Originally published by The Nashville Bar Journal, December 2011-January 2012)
BY: IRWIN J. KUHN
The stage for a workable post marriage relationship between two people whose lives will always connected through children or family or friends is not set well by a...
Many Tennessee courts and attorneys by reflex insert parenting plan provisions prohibiting residential parents from allowing overnight visitation by “paramours” or “members of the opposite sex to whom they are not married”.
The Court of Appeals for the western section of...