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Western Australian Chief Justice Wayne Martin has harshly criticised the time-based model of billing used by law firms in a speech opening Law Week at the Perth Press Club. You may view a news story about the speech here.


Mark Chinn's Article "Constructive Divorce with Value-Based Pricing" is featured in the January/February 2010 issue of GPSOLO magazine from the American Bar Association. Family law cases involve families. how you choose to handle these cases impacts lives. Forever. Read it here.


Mark Chinn has been named as the Jackson Free Press Person of the Day for December 11, 2009. Check out the article here.


Mark Chinn is one of eleven elite attorneys from Canada and the United States selected to serve on the National Advisory Board for Divorce Magazine.

Launched in 1996, Divorce Magazine is North America's only magazine devoted entirely to divorce. It is published twice a year with six regional editions, and is full of helpful articles as well as guides to local divorce lawyers and professionals. The magazine's website, DivorceMagazine.com, has been the leading divorce-related website since 1996.


Mark Chinn's Article "The Constructive Divorce" was published in The Mississippi Lawyer Magazine, July-September 2009. Read the article here.


Mark Chinn Selected to Best Lawyers in America

Mark A. Chinn has been selected again for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of family law. Best Lawyers surveys over 350,000 individual evaluations wherein they urged those surveyed to use only the highest standards and to evaluate each attorney based only on his individual merits.


Mark Chinn has once again been selected to Martindale-Hubbell®'s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™ for 2010.

For over 90 years, the Bar Register has been a unique guide to the legal community's most eminent professionals. It includes only those select law practices that have earned the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and have been designated by their colleagues as preeminent in their field.


Mark Chinn was recently featured on WAPT news in Jackson, Mississippi in a news story about the movement in the State Legislature to change current laws about "No Fault" or "Irreconcilable Differences" Divorces. Click below to watch the feature.

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  Mark Chinn is one of only 20 family lawyers selected out of all the lawyers in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi to be a Mid-South Super Lawyer for 2009. The selection process is rigorous and includes a blue ribbon panel review process, independent research on candidates, and surveys of over 23,000 lawyers in the United States.

Mark Chinn was featured in the June 2008 issue of the ABA Journal for his emphasis on Collaborative Divorce. Read the article on the ABA website or in downloadable PDF.

Mark also led an ABA Connection CLE Teleconference on the same subject on June 18, 2008. It is available for purchase from the ABA website.


Chinn & Associates is pleased to announce that Chad King, CP and Keith Isbell, CP have successfully completed the two-day Certified Legal Assistant Examination and are both nationally Certified Paralegals. They are among 172 legal assistants in Mississippi and 14,566 legal assistants nationwide who have attained this goal.

Mark Chinn recently served on an elite faculty of experienced Family Trial Attorneys for the American Bar Association’s advanced Trial Practice Institute at the University of Denver. The eight day course provided one-on-one mentoring from experienced trail lawyers with younger lawyers in mock trial situations. Chinn, the of two ABA published family law book is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in Family Law and has been selected as one of only 20 lawyers in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas for inclusion in Mid-South Super Lawyers in Family Law.

Mark Chinn gave a Manexa web seminar based on his book, The Constructive Divorce. Watch the entire seminar HERE. (59:23, 5Mb)

Mark Chinn appeared on "Family Affairs" radio show with Jonathan Fogel on 107.1 FM in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Listen to the entire broadcast HERE. (56:40, 23Mb)

LawyersUSA Magazine praises Mark Chinn's latest book, The Constructive Divorce Guidebook. Read the review HERE.

Mark A. Chinn of Chinn and Associates, PLLC announces the publication of his second book, The Constructive Divorce Guidebook: Empowering Families to Reach Long-Term Positive Results, published by the American Bar Association Family Law Section. The book, along with his first book, How to Build and Manage a Family Law Practice, is available at www.ababooks.org.


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