NRS38.535. Required assessment and disclosures regarding process by prospective collaborative lawyer.

  Before a prospective party signs a collaborative law participation agreement, a prospective collaborative lawyer shall:

      1.  Assess with the prospective party factors that the lawyer reasonably believes relate to whether a collaborative law process is appropriate for the prospective party’s matter;

      2.  Provide the prospective party with information that the lawyer reasonably believes is sufficient for the prospective party to make an informed decision about the material benefits and risks of a collaborative law process as compared to the material benefits and risks of other reasonably available alternatives for resolving the proposed collaborative matter, such as litigation, mediation, arbitration or expert evaluation; and

      3.  Advise the prospective party that:

      (a) After a collaborative law participation agreement is signed, the collaborative law process terminates if a party initiates a proceeding or seeks the intervention of a tribunal in a pending proceeding related to the collaborative matter;

      (b) Participation in a collaborative law process is voluntary, and any party has the right to terminate unilaterally a collaborative law process with or without cause; and

      (c) The collaborative lawyer and any lawyer in a law firm with which the collaborative lawyer is associated may not appear before a tribunal to represent a party in a proceeding related to the collaborative matter, except as authorized by subsection 3 of NRS 38.510, subsection 2 of NRS 38.515 or subsection 2 of NRS 38.520.

      (Added to NRS by 2011, 188)