Strategic Conversations for Life’s Transitions
Helping families in transition have the hard conversations and navigate life or the legal system through all aspects of family law and, when possible and appropriate, reconciliation strategies.
Helping Families Have the Hard Conversations
Some of life’s most important conversations are the ones we most want to avoid — about a marriage, an aging parent, end-of-life wishes, or a career in crisis. Brigid Duffield has spent more than 40 years helping families through exactly these moments: at the kitchen table, over coffee, or across the mediation table. Working at the intersection of law, emotion, and communication, she helps you find the most effective path forward — one that lowers the conflict, keeps families out of the courtroom, and protects the relationships that matter long after the hard decision is made.
Our Services
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As an attorney mediator, Brigid translates your situation and helps define your resolution or settlement path. From there, she assists in strategically planning and addressing life’s challenges. The objective is to maintain long-term relationships and minimize court involvement through a variety of conflict resolution techniques.
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Brigid provides a steady, compassionate presence to guide meaningful conversations, the hard ones, and to ease logistical stress while honoring individual personal wishes with dignity and respect.
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Brigid educates, entertains, and challenges on a variety of Hard Conversations! As the oldest daughter of an Irish-Catholic family of 10, Brigid brings real-life experience to real-life matters, sharing proven methods of conflict resolution.
DuPage County Administrative Center, today where we practice today.
For more than 40 years, Brigid Duffield has worked as a strategic partner, mediator, tireless advocate, and, when necessary, a competitive litigator for her clients.
Original DuPage County Courthouse, built in 1868, where we started.
