Conscious Family Law: Mediation Services & Conflict Resolution
Published online at BizLightenment.com
Conscious businesses come in all shapes and sizes. For Heidi S. Tuffias, a leading family law attorney in Los Angeles specializing in family mediation and collaborative divorce, conscious business means being a thoughtful and caring employer, helping her clients with family and divorce mediation inside and outside the courtroom, and volunteering her conflict resolution and mediation services.
Heidi S. Tuffias, a well-known, leading family law attorney in Los Angeles, CA, graduated from the University of Southern California Law Center and has sat on the Board of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles since 1993. In 1995, she became a Certified Family Law Specialist. The reason that Heidi is so successful in family law is due to her conscious business practices, but they might not be what you think.
Although most people think of recycling and buying eco-friendly products when they think of conscious business, Heidi’s law firm encompasses a broader definition. While her office does employ eco-friendly practices, her thoughtful and caring approach to family mediation services, altruistic volunteering of her conflict resolution skills, and generosity and consideration of her staff make her a leader in conscious family law.
Family Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Handling divorce mediation, child custody cases, property divisions, and child support cases with compassion takes a special type of person. Heidi is well known for being conscious in her field due to her listening skills, her compassion, and her way of settling cases using conflict resolution. Above and beyond being a family law attorney, Heidi is a mediator. She practices cooperative and collaborative communication, and offers caring and creative legal and mediation services.
Heidi approaches each case knowing she is dealing with a family; a family that needs the right choices made as peacefully as possible. She strives to help her clients come to an agreement outside of the courtroom, making it a less costly experience for them that allows for a more personal resolution. She strives to not only help her clients feel heard and settle their disputes, but also to help them heal through the process with dignity and grace.
Environmental Responsibility
To offset any environmental impact, Heidi’s office recycles their paper, cans and bottles, and they choose recycled paper for their office and business cards. In addition, Heidi’s office buys their office supplies from ‘Give Something Back Business Products’ (GSB). GSB is a green, socially responsible business supplier that offers office supplies, furniture, and printing.
Volunteer Mediation Services
Over the years Heidi has been a volunteer attorney for the Los Angeles County Bar’s Juvenile Justice Program, as well s the Public Counsel Children’s Rights Project, and was heavily involved in the LA County Jail Project for women needing help appointing legal guardians for their children, filing divorces, or other family law matters. She currently serves as a volunteer mediator for the Central and West Districts of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Heidi also encourages her staff to volunteer and supports their efforts to give back to their communities. She persuades her staff to take time to be of service to their communities in any way that calls to them.
A Family-Style Family Law Office
One of the most notable ways that Heidi practices conscious business is in the way she treats her staff. Her intention is to support people in being happy and being the most they can be. To achieve her intention, she offers a complete open door policy, promotes teamwork, and is continually asking her employees if they are happy with what they are doing, if they would rather be doing something different, and if there is any way they can be helped.
She looks for ways to assign the correct roles and make sure that everyone is doing what they are best at and what they enjoy the most. In turn, the environment is relaxed, upbeat, friendly, peaceful, and warm.
Her staff is a lucky group. They are constantly shown appreciation, enjoy a closed office during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, are given personal time and holidays, go on a yearly retreat together, and are celebrated on their birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions.
Heidi also believes in sharing the wealth; when things go well in the office, everyone benefits, and surprise bonuses are not unusual.
Conscious & Kind
In essence, the kindness that Heidi exudes is what sets her apart from other attorneys in the family law business. Consciousness is synonymous to kindness. Heidi knows that being kind to others and the planet is what being a conscious business is truly about.
Information Links:
The Law and Mediation Offices of Heidi S. Tuffias, Inc.:
http://www.familylawsolutions.com
Association of Certified Family Law Specialists (ACFLS):
California State Bar:
