Mark Kevin Baumann
Mark Baumann, attorney, mediator, educatorMy job is to achieve my client’s goals. Often times, clients need help defining their goals. Listening to the client and understanding their needs and interests, working through the options and setting attainable goals is typically the first step in fashioning a strategy in which to proceed with the case. I am a litigator, counselor, mediator, judge pro tem, educator, and professional speaker, now working primarily in the area of family law, domestic violence and high conflict cases. I provide service for all areas of family law, including divorce, parenting, custody, visitation, parental alienation, child support, modifications, relocation, grandparent and third party visitation, property division, retirements, spousal support (alimony), trial and pre-trial litigation, pre-divorce counseling, and mediation. As a family law mediator and arbitrator, I work throughout western Washington. I offer low bono rates in mediation cases where the lawyers are charging low bono rates. In 2012 I started developing the Integrative Client-Centered Model (ICCM), an update to the traditional client-centered model for legal counseling, based on Interpersonal Neurobiology and adult attachment theory. The Integrative Client Counseling Institute now promotes ICCM concepts, helping lawyers and their staff to improve client counseling skills and better manage difficult cases.
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- High Conflict cases
- Mediation
- Washington
- English: Spoken, Written
- Director
- Integrative Client Counseling Institute
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- Client counseling theory and education for attorneys
- Associate
- High Conflict Institute
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- Mediator
- Pacific Northwest Mediation
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- Judge Pro Tem
- Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
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- Attorney
- Mark K. Baumann, Attorney at Law
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- Instructor, Entrepreneurial Training Program
- Peninsula Community College
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- Portland State University
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Graduate Credit Certificate (2013) | Interpersonal Neurobiology
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- 1 year graduate credit certificate program in Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Pepperdine University School of Law
- 40 hour mediation course (2008) | Mediating the litigated case
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- University of Washington School of Law
- Title 26 GAL certification | Guardian ad Litem
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- Lewis & Clark Law School
- J.D. | Law
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- University of Washington
- B.A. (1985) | Political Science
- Distinguished Service Award
- Clallam County Pro Bono Lawyers
- Integrative Client Counseling Institute
- Director
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- WSBA Low Bono Section
- Executive Committee
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- Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Member
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- Academy of Professional Family Mediators
- Founding member
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- Early Childhood Program, OCAP
- Consultant
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- Integrative Listening: 10 client-counseling elements for lawyers informed by Interpersonal Neurobiology (CUP of COCOA in Reno NV)
- WSBA, Moderate Means Program, CLE Materials
- Low Bono: Serving those with Real Needs but Limited Means
- NW Lawyer (WSBA)
- Listening for lawyers: An introduction to the Interpersonal Neurobiology perspective with a case study and annotated bibliography
- WSBA CLE, De-Escalating Intense Emotions: The Secrets of a Hostage Negotiator, CLE materials
- What to listen for, how to listen, and how to help: An Interpersonal Neurobiology perspective on Integrative Client Counseling for lawyers with a case study
- AFCC 2013 Washington Annual Conference materials
- Attachment Informed Top 10 To Do’s for Lawyers and Judges
- Presentation materials, The Significance of Childhood Attachment in a Rural Family Law Practice
- Mediator
- Pepperdine University School of Law
- Title 26 GAL
- University of Washington, School of Law
- Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Portland State University
- Attachment and Psychopathology
- Family Relations Instittue