About Kathleen Clark

Kathleen Clark has practiced law and mediation in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than thirty years. In addition to her law degree, she has a Masters Degree in business management and a PhD in Social Sciences. Kathleen’s dissertation is entitled “Bringing Dialogue and Collaborative Law to Health Care”. Collaborative law and other collaborative practices are cost-effective, non-adversarial processes that provide the space for forgiveness, caring language, listening, and learning from other practitioners and our communities. These practices are increasingly chosen as better alternatives to litigation. The sooner these practices are called into play, the less likely litigation will follow, or, if litigation becomes necessary, the less adversarial that practice will be.

Dr. Clark is the founder and CEO of Servant Lawyership and an Associate at the Taos Institute, a community of scholars and practitioners committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in communities and organizations around the world (http://www.taosinstitute.net/kathleen-clark-phd; http://www.taosinstitute.net). She is a member of the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association.