Mar 8 | 2-3pm Eastern

Common Legal Issues in Community and How to Avoid Them

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Not creating a solid legal foundation for your intentional community can be a recipe for heartbreak. But navigating the law can be tough for inexperienced communities. 

Thankfully, our facilitator Clifford Paulin Esq. has been advising communities on the legal aspects of community living for 15 years. Join us for a 1-hour bird’s eye view of legal topics to consider when starting, maintaining, or reforming a community.

Strong and responsive legal agreements within communities are key to both their long-term success and maintaining healthy relationships between community members. Learn about some of the most common legal issues that communities face and what you need to be prepared for them in this FREE webinar. 

What you’ll gain from this session:

• An understanding of the critical legal topics in intentional community
• What to ensure is in your governing documents
• How to evaluate different choices of legal form

This is a one-hour preview of the upcoming 5-week course, Legal Basics for Forming Communities — an immersive program where Clifford Paulin will show you how to translate the values and vision of your group into clear and cohesive agreements.

“Clifford is a wonderful educator, not just his experience and expertise, but his sensibility to the bigger picture and also his foresightful cautions, all provide a great panoramic perspective. He also has a fabulous ability to provide for questions. And in answering them, he goes into the surrounding detail, and then even asks the questioner if that answered the question!”

– Karen Maleski

Meet the Instructor

Clifford Paulin

Clifford Paulin provides a full suite of legal, facilitation, and mediation services to individuals, businesses, communities, non-profits, and government entities. His extensive background in serving these organizations as well as being part of them provides hime with a unique understanding of their needs and desires.

Clifford holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona, a Juris Doctorate and a Masters of Study in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School, a mediation certificate from the Center for Understanding in Conflict, and advanced facilitation training from Synectics LLC.

Clifford’s legal practice has focused on transactional law, non-profit law, and community law since 2006.  He also has extensive experience in mediation in both individual and group settings.  He has facilitated strategic planning and other processes for groups in both the private and public sectors. Mr. Paulin is also a co-founder of The Oak Granary, a land-based environmental education non-profit in Potter Valley, California.

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The Online Event Experience

 

Live Zoom Sessions

Nothing pre-recorded here! When you sign-up for an event with FIC, you’ll have the opportunity to join a live session on Zoom with the event presenter/facilitator and other participants.

Affordable and Accessible

All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.

Watch the Recording

You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for up to one month (unless otherwise noted). So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you.