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This directory of Collaborative professionals in Edmonton and area provides the quickest and easiest way to find the qualified professionals you need to obtain a divorce or separation without going to court and needing to deal with all the associated costs and stress.

No two people will need the same support — you may need a collaboratively trained divorce lawyer and a financial planner, another couple may need a family specialist for counselling services and a divorce coach.  Yet another couple may just need a family law lawyer who knows how to help a couple through a collaborative divorce.

Divorce Coaches help clients address issues that often create barriers in settling disputes during this challenging time. They will assist the individual by providing them with resources, education, and information, while helping the client to develop positive stress management, goal setting, effective communication, and conflict-resolution skills. Divorce Coaches can also assist with clarifying the individual’s needs, interests, and concerns to prepare them to advocate for themselves in team meetings. This keeps the process moving forward and allows them to be their best self in a two household family.

Divorce Coaches can have an educational background in law, mental health, or finance.

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Bruce Russell Reid

Family LawyerLong Family Law Group LLP
Address 201 – 9333 47 Street NW Edmonton Alberta T6B 2R7 CanadaPhone: 780-461-8416 ext 226Fax: 780-461-8546

Bio

Bruce Reid is a lawyer, mediator, Registered Collaborative Family Lawyer, and partner at Long Family Law Group LLP. He has worked with our firm in many capacities since 2008, full-time in the summers and part-time during the school years. He began his tenure with us as a filing clerk, but his role evolved quickly.

Bruce is an Acadian Maritimer transplanted to Alberta, where he completed his Bachelor of Arts and obtained the distinction of First Class Honours. Bruce went home for a few years to obtain a law degree at Dalhousie University, and returned to us in January 2014 as an articling student. Bruce was admitted to the Alberta Bar as a lawyer on July 3, 2015.

In the past, Bruce has worked as a chicken farmer, tour guide and tour writer, machinist, window deliverer, construction, project manager for a retail outlet, and labourer. He is devoted to his wife, Denise, and their three-legged dog, Maui. Bruce enjoys camping, dirt biking, travelling, learning new languages, and practicing yoga. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.

Bruce is a well-rounded regular guy who brings to the law a strong sense of justice. To that end, Bruce dedicated much of his free time during law school to volunteer work. Throughout that time, he volunteered at Halifax’s Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services, where he assisted refugees and other immigrants with their immigration-related paperwork. He also volunteered his time working at Dalhousie Student Advocacy Services, where he acted as advocate for students pursuing academic appeals or facing disciplinary matters before administrative tribunals. As a lawyer he continues to contribute to the community by volunteering at the Edmonton Community Legal Clinic as well as participating in the speakers committee for the Canadian Bar Association Family Law Section Edmonton. Bruce has also contributed to the updating of the Legal Education Society of Alberta Family Law Practice Manual twice.  He has supervised a law student research project and he is also a member of the speakers committee for the Canadian Bar Association Family Law Section Edmonton.

Bruce has quickly built skill and experience in litigation with numerous appearances in the Provincial Court and the Court of Queen’s Bench. He has obtained favourable results in trials, Special Chambers, and other interim hearings dealing with divorce, child support, spousal support, child welfare, property division, exclusive possession, Restraining Orders, and various other issues that arise in family law. He attributes much of his success to his mentors, his experience at the Dalhousie Legal Aid Clinic, and the multiple continuing education seminars that he attends. However, Bruce’s preference is to dedicate a larger part of his practice to alternate dispute resolution processes to assist transitioning families in finding outside-the-box solutions that work for them and their own unique circumstances.

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