Hebert Law & Mediation
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With over 30 years of experience helping families restructure and thrive.
Family Law, Mediation, Arbitration, Alberta
Resolution Options
At Hebert Law & Mediation , we provide the following legal services.
Mediation and Child-Inclusive Mediation
Skilled, experienced mediation services to help you resolve your separation - including parenting, child and spousal support, and property division. Patricia includes the option of the thoughtful, developmentally-appropriate inclusion of the voice of children in the mediation process.
Spousal Agreements
Negotiation of prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements to help you and your partner plan for a future - with intention and without conflict.
Collaborative Family Law
Collaborative family law allows you and your spouse to have a team of well-trained professionals support you to come to a resolution without court. We work together to assist you in negotiating a separation agreement using an open, transparent and cooperative process that meets your goals, causing less stress and maintaining control and confidentiality. This option is particularly well-suited to more complex financial circumstances, including business and corporate assets.
Independent Legal Advice
Benefit from experienced independent legal advice to review your draft agreement arrived at in mediation or negotiation, to ensure your legal interests are understood and protected.
Case Assessments
An in-depth consultative process to provide you with a thorough review of the law and legal options that apply to your situation, to empower you with knowledge and perspective to move forward, at any stage of the separation process.
Family Law, Mediation, Arbitration Lawyer
About Hebert Law & Mediation
- Patricia Hebert KC (Trish) has practiced law since 1995, representing children and parents in unique, complex and high-conflict cases. As a mediator, collaborative lawyer, child advocate, and litigator, she worked to maintain a focus on the principled representation of children’s needs, protecting them from the consequences of poorly-managed conflict, and establishing the conditions for their healthy futures.
- After 30 years of practice, Trish focuses on building agreements and assisting clients to resolution. She has a strong skill set to support a firm belief that families are special and should not, wherever possible, ask judges to make decisions about their futures.
- Trish is a strong advocate of new and modern ways of assisting families. She collaborates with psychologists and other professionals, works on legal reform, and is committed to educating lawyers, judges and parents on positive ways to support children in the course of a transition. She is an advocate for mediation, arbitration, and collaborative family law. She applies the Our Family In Two Homes educational resource to support transformative change.
- Trish was a long-serving sessional instructor of law at the University of Alberta, as well as an instructor of judges at multiple sessions of the National Judicial Institute, and a frequent speaker, panelist and author on children’s participation in family cases across Canada.
- She is a founding member of the Alberta Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), which advocates for well-informed and multidisciplinary practices to support families.
- She is the past National chair of the Canadian Bar Association committees in the areas of family law, legal aid and access to justice. She is currently the national representative of the CBA to the National Action Committee on Access to Justice.
- Trish helped develop Legal Aid’s program for the representation of children from 2001 to 2010. She taught the Representation of Children Training Program in 2005 and many follow up courses by LESA, CRILF and AFCC. She has instructed on child representation across the country.
- She is past Chair of the board of directors and a long-serving director and committee member of the Kids Kottage Foundation, sharing her time and effort to support vulnerable children in our community.
- She received the 2014 Women in Law Leadership award for her work in the community. She was recognized with the Queen’s Counsel (King’s Counsel) distinction in 2016.
- Trish was the second North American recipient of the American College of Trial Lawyers Beverley McLachlin Access to Justice Award (2022) for her work promoting and expanding access to justice.
- In 2023, she received the Edmonton Bar Association Eileen Nash Memorial Award for Pro Bono service.
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Hebert Law & Mediation
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587-686-1103
Location
#105 14727 87 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB T5R4E5
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