Imagine a contract that * stimulates and supports rapid return to alignment and productivity in the face of unexpected change* inspires side-by-side problem-solving rather than adversarial confrontation when parties disagree* learns with the business as it navigates the ever-changing, digital-speed, modern marketplace. Discovering Agreement is an innovative approach to generating legally enforceable documents that embed responsive, resilient operating systems into contractual relationships. This practical, easily implemented process empowers parties to build sustainable business relationships, replacing the old-style foundation of distrust and adversarial posturing with one of alignment and affinity - without sacrificing either party's power or credibility. Using the Discovering Agreement model, parties create documents that support and sustain agile, adaptable business relationships aligned with the core vision and values of the parties.
This model provides a safer, more stable and trustworthy foundation for framing and conducting business relationships, enabling parties to create stronger, more sustainable and enjoyable ventures that can endure and prosper in the midst of disagreement or crisis. With engaging prose, personal stories, real-life examples, and practical guides for conducting negotiations and drafting agreements, Discovering Agreement empowers readers to generate immediate, positive change in their legal interactions and in how the legal system impacts their business relationships. When put into practice, Discovering Agreement has the added potential of catalyzing long-term, systemic change in the legal system itself.
Imagine a contract that * stimulates and supports rapid return to alignment and productivity in the face of unexpected change* inspires side-by-side problem-solving rather than adversarial confrontation when parties disagree* learns with the business as it navigates the ever-changing, digital-speed, modern marketplace. Discovering Agreement is an innovative approach to generating legally enforceable documents that embed responsive, resilient operating systems into contractual relationships. This practical, easily implemented process empowers parties to build sustainable business relationships, replacing the old-style foundation of distrust and adversarial posturing with one of alignment and affinity - without sacrificing either party's power or credibility. Using the Discovering Agreement model, parties create documents that support and sustain agile, adaptable business relationships aligned with the core vision and values of the parties.
This model provides a safer, more stable and trustworthy foundation for framing and conducting business relationships, enabling parties to create stronger, more sustainable and enjoyable ventures that can endure and prosper in the midst of disagreement or crisis. With engaging prose, personal stories, real-life examples, and practical guides for conducting negotiations and drafting agreements, Discovering Agreement empowers readers to generate immediate, positive change in their legal interactions and in how the legal system impacts their business relationships. When put into practice, Discovering Agreement has the added potential of catalyzing long-term, systemic change in the legal system itself.
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978-1-63425-410-6 (9781634254106)
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The first twenty years of Linda Alvarez's professional life were spent pursuing a successful career in the arts. Trained in theater, she and her husband produced and managed theatrical and media productions across the United States. In the mid-1990s, Alvarez reentered the academic world earning her law degree, magna cum laude, in 1997. She entered private practice in the large-firm environment-including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto) and Vinson & Elkins (Houston). Later, as senior counsel for litigation and trademarks at Align Technology, Inc., she managed litigations on behalf of the corporation as well as shepherding the company's valuable consumer trademark portfolio. Alvarez launched her solo practice in 2005 and, in 2012, was recognized by the American Bar Association as a "legal rebel" for her innovative approach to contract formation. Alvarez developed Discovering Agreement as a way to reframe the negotiation process, the drafting of contract language, and the performance of contractual relationships. Where conventional perspectives cast the parties as adversaries and bargaining power as a function of dominance, Discovering Agreement orients the parties as collaborators code- signing their ideal business relationship. With Discovering Agreement, parties take the reins and, facilitated by legal counsel, build their own ideal systems within the context of the larger legal-justice system, actively transforming how the conventional system impacts their present and future interactions and dealings. Alvarez's approach grew out of years of study of the principles of active and effective nonviolence and draws on proven mediation and restorative justice models of dispute resolution. It is also informed by current research in neuroscience, and by developing trends in business, such as "Conscious Capitalism" (reorienting business governance and development towards socially, environmentally, and personally responsible values).
The first twenty years of Linda Alvarez's professional life were spent pursuing a successful career in the arts. Trained in theater, she and her husband produced and managed theatrical and media productions across the United States. In the mid-1990s, Alvarez reentered the academic world earning her law degree, magna cum laude, in 1997. She entered private practice in the large-firm environment-including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto) and Vinson & Elkins (Houston). Later, as senior counsel for litigation and trademarks at Align Technology, Inc., she managed litigations on behalf of the corporation as well as shepherding the company's valuable consumer trademark portfolio. Alvarez launched her solo practice in 2005 and, in 2012, was recognized by the American Bar Association as a "legal rebel" for her innovative approach to contract formation. Alvarez developed Discovering Agreement as a way to reframe the negotiation process, the drafting of contract language, and the performance of contractual relationships. Where conventional perspectives cast the parties as adversaries and bargaining power as a function of dominance, Discovering Agreement orients the parties as collaborators code- signing their ideal business relationship. With Discovering Agreement, parties take the reins and, facilitated by legal counsel, build their own ideal systems within the context of the larger legal-justice system, actively transforming how the conventional system impacts their present and future interactions and dealings. Alvarez's approach grew out of years of study of the principles of active and effective nonviolence and draws on proven mediation and restorative justice models of dispute resolution. It is also informed by current research in neuroscience, and by developing trends in business, such as "Conscious Capitalism" (reorienting business governance and development towards socially, environmentally, and personally responsible values).
