Meet Cassandra
Cassandra is an Accredited Family Law Specialist and the founding partner at Pullos Lawyers, one of Queensland’s most recognized boutique family law firms. Cassandra is a leader in Australian Family law and was one of the country’s first Accredited Family Law Specialists. She combines over 35 years of litigation experience with her unparalleled alternate dispute resolution expertise to support people through mediation and dispute resolution pathways, ensuring they arrive at positive, long-term agreements.
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Having assisted people and families through litigation since 1985, Cassandra understands the difficulty and stress that often accompanies conflict and relationship breakdowns. Cassandra began to focus on dispute resolution services over 15 years ago and has received training in Collaborative Practice, Parenting Coordination and Mediation from internationally respected practitioners. Seeing the benefits of these practices for people, Cassandra translated her international training into Australian practice and has been a key figure in the development and adoption of Collaborative Practice and Parenting Coordination in within the Australian legal landscape.
Cassandra remains one of the country’s most respected Family Law specialists, but recognizes the importance of offering resolution pathways that best fit the unique needs of individual people and their relationships. She founded Pullos Dispute Resolution in order to compliment her litigation practice and offer people a diverse range of dispute resolution options.
Cassandra works with you personally to choose the dispute resolution pathway that best suits your needs and then walks you through every step of the process. As one of the country’s most established and respected dispute resolution specialists, Cassandra will work with you to achieve a durable and long-lasting agreement that best serves you now, and in to the future.
Qualifications
+ COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE TRAINING COURSES DELIVERED
- Interdisciplinary Introductory Collaborative Practice Training, Brisbane QLD - 2017
- Interdisciplinary Introductory Collaborative Practice Training, Brisbane QLD - 2018
+ MEDIATION COURSES UNDERTAKEN
- Nationally Accredited Mediator – 2017
- Mediation and ADR Workshop – Vin-Link and Holding Redlich Lawyers in collaboration with Ian Hanger QC - 2011
- Mediation 5 Day Workshop – Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies – 2008
- Mediation Theory and Skills – Leo Cussen Institute - 2006
- Mediation Theory and Skills – Bond University Dispute Resolution Centre - 2006
+ COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE ORGANISATIONAL POSITIONS HELD
- Vice-Chair of the newly formed Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals (AACP)– since 2016
- Chairperson of AACP Training and Standards Committee – since 2016
- Committee Member of QACP – since 2007
- Collaborative Practice sub-committee of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia – Queensland Representative – 2007 - 2010
- Founding President of what is now QACP from 2007 to 2011
- National Centre of Collaborative Practice – Queensland Representative from 2006 to 2010
+ COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE COURSES UNDERTAKEN
- IACP Forum, Washington DC – 2015
- 5th Annual IACP Institute – Masterclass in Collaborative Practice with Pauline Tesler – 2015 – Gold Coast Australia and on the organising committee.
- IACP Leadership Academy, California – 2014
- Intensive Collaborative Workshop with Victoria Smith – 2014
- IACP Educational Event with Rita Pollak & Linda Solomon – 2014
- IACP Forum and Leadership Academy, Vancouver – 2014
- IACP Forum and Leadership Academy, San Antonio – 2013
- Advanced Collaborative Workshop with Catherine Connor – 2012
- IACP Forum, Chicago – 2012
- Collaborative Law Training Workshop with Dianne Diel – 2011
- Family Law Pathways: Brief Overview of Collaborative Law – 2011
- Collaborative Law Training Workshop - Law Institute of Victoria – 2011
- Collaborative Practice Workshop with Tania Sourdin – 2011
- Collaborative Law Training with Cathy Gale & Caroline Counsel – 2010
- Collaborative Family Law: Turning Collaborative Theory into Collaborative Practice - Law Council of Australia – 2010
- Queensland Collaborative Law Workshop - Queensland Collaborative Law – 2010
- Collaborative Law Skills Training - Queensland Collaborative Law – 2010
- Collaborative Law Conference & Training - Collaborating Down Under - 2009
- Introductory Collaborative Law training with Pauline Tesler – Brisbane (Organising committee & attendee)
- Advanced Collaborative Law Training – Marion Korn – 2007
- Basic Collaborative Law Training – Pauline Tesler – 2006 (Seattle Wa.)
- Collaborative Practice Training Courses Delivered
- Interdisciplinary Introductory Collaborative Law Training, Brisbane 2016
- Interdisciplinary Introductory Collaborative Law Training, Toowoomba and Brisbane 2015
- Collaborative Law Introductory Training, Brisbane 2013
- Collaborative Law Introductory Training, Brisbane 2012
- Collaborative Law Introductory Training, Cairns 2012
- Collaborative Law Introductory Training, Toowoomba 2012
+ Collaborative Practice Training Courses Delivered
- Interdisciplinary Introductory Collaborative Practice Training, Brisbane QLD - 2017
- Interdisciplinary Introductory Collaborative Practice Training, Brisbane QLD - 2018
Contact Pullos Dispute Resolution to speak to Cassandra and begin resolving your dispute.