Glenn E.Tanner

Spokane County Collaborative Professionals

Collaborative Team Role

North 901 Adams
Spokane, WA 99201
(509) 244-6353/fax (509) 455-6132

or

4409 SW Admiral Way, Suite 203
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 937-3699

GetLaw2001@yahoo.com

My goal is to keep you out of court while still obtaining a fair and reasonable settlement. If you have children, I also help you obtain the healthiest possible parenting arrangement. I will help you sort through the options of mediation, arbitration, collaborative practice or traditional litigation. In all circumstances, I help you advance towards lifetime financial security. I listen to your concerns and goals, and make sure you are properly informed and supported throughout the process. I strive to obtain an end to your disputes with minimal pain and with as little emotional damage to the children as possible. As your Collaborative Attorney, I make sure your goals and interests are effectively expressed and productively responded to.

I encourage you to consider Collaborative Practice because it promotes respect, places the needs of children first, and keeps control of the process with the participants. Collaborative Practice is often a more efficient, targeted and productive way to resolve disputes. Successful Collaborative couples focus on the future and not the past, want a healthy relationship after the divorce, and want to resolve their differences with their personal and economic dignity intact. If Collaborative Practice is appropriate for you, you will have greater control over how your case is resolved and not waste time needlessly fighting. When Collaborative divorces are finished, participants often have pride in their behavior because they have treated each other fairly and placed their children’s interests ahead of their own. I personally commit to do everything possible to make your Collaborative case succeed and I always make sure the process appropriately focuses on your needs, interests and concerns.

I eagerly participated in Spokane’s first Collaborative Practice divorce. With extensive experience in Family Law since 1990, and even earlier in law school clinics, I fully understand the advantages of the relatively streamlined Collaborative Practice process in contrast to the thick swamp of traditional litigation.

I am a founder, director and vice president of Spokane County Collaborative Professionals. I am a director and secretary of Collaborative Practice of Washington, the Washington State Collaborative Practice organization. I am a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (“IACP”), which is the international association of professionals setting the standards for Collaborative Practice. I attended the 2007 IACP Forum in Toronto.

On a personal note, when I am not Collaborating I am often running. I finished fifth overall in the 2006 Spokane Marathon and was named the 2006 Male Master Runner of the year by the Bloomsday Roadrunners Club. My wife, Christine, is a social worker in Seattle, counselor and runner. We have residences in Spokane and Seattle. In Spokane we live with our young Weimeraners, AKC Champion Horatio and Ophelia, in the Shadle-Hughes House, a restored 1910 tudor revival home listed on the National and Spokane Registers of Historic Places.

Education

Collaborative Law Basic Training – Seattle - Marion Korn - 2005

Collaborative Law Training – Spokane - Pauline Tesler (Pauline is one of the founders of Collaborative Practice) – 2007

IACP Forum – Toronto – 2007

Collaborative Family Law Interdisciplinary Team Training – Bend – 2008

Felicia Malsby’s Collaborative Law Overview – Spokane – 2007

Make Peace Not War – A Collaboriave Approach to Family Law – Spokane - 2004

Intro to Collaborative Practice – Spokane County Bar Association – Speaker - 2006

Interest Based Mediation Training – Fulcrum Institute – Spokane - 2005

See All Members