1. Integrative Law
Conscious Contracts for Conscious
Businesses

2. New Business Models and Ideas
• Forms of business organization: B Corporations, L3C
• Triple bottom line
• Socially responsible corporations
• Social entrepreneurship
• Conscious business
• Conscious capitalism

3. Many Names and Models

4. What does this new way of
addressing legal matters look like ?

5. Lawyers with … empathy and insight

6. a whole new set of tools for
preventing and resolving legal
matters

7. innovative conflict
resolution models

8. multidisciplinary, collaborative
problem solving

9. differentiated legal services
No more
billable
hours!

10. no more “one-size-
fits-all”

11. Sharing Law

12. New Models of Contracts
Creating relationships
• Clarity
• Sustainable, enduring,
collaborative
• Win/win not One-Up
• Making the world a
better place together

13. Visual

14. A Conscious Contract
Creates:
 Foundation for a
relationship of
connection and trust
 Structure for
conversations that
matter
 Recipe for handling
change
 Documents that reflect
the values and
purpose of the parties

15. Possible Elements of a Mindful
Contract
• Purpose, Vision, Mission, Values of each
• Shared Purpose, Vision, Mission, Values
– How are we going to make the world a better
place? [Linda Alvarez]
• Conflict resolution plan
– How will we handle change?
– Is our on-going relationship important to us even
if this contract ends?

16. Addressing Change and Conflict Resolution:
Creating Your Own Justice System
• First we will talk about it.
• Then we will communicate by writing.
• We’ll get a trusted advisor to sit with us
and mediate or help us talk.
• We’ll get collaborative lawyers.
• We’ll go to the woods.
• We’ll dissolve rather than going to court.