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Caroline has been a successful litigation lawyer for over 30 years and was
head of the Litigation Department of A&L Goodbody for seven of them. She has a
reputation for applying tough and effective strategies for her clients. Caroline has
always been solution driven and had her client's interests at the core of her work.
She has seen at first hand that Litigation can be a clumsy tool to resolve disputes
and an expensive one. On becoming an Accredited Mediator in 2002 Caroline became a
passionate believer in this process. In 2008 on retiring as a Partner, she studied
for and was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Conflict and Dispute Resolution
Studies in Trinity College Dublin, her old alma mater. She is convinced that, done properly,
Mediation can both resolve difficulties between parties in practical terms and
bring financial and emotional closure to the issues between them.
Caroline understands the importance of maintaining relationships, both
business and personal and she has mediated disputes where positive trading
contracts have been saved, family businesses rescued and personal slights and
grievances addressed. She has the skill and experience to identify the blockage,
often not the obvious one, which has been the deterrent to solution. She
successfully encourages the parties to explore imaginative alternative proposals
in helping them to reach agreement.
Caroline's extensive legal experience is clearly a valuable tool in her work
as a Mediator but it is her professional, firm and empathetic approach which marks
her work in this field.
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