Michael Cochrane recently joined the firm to launch Heydary Green PC, a new family law and estates boutique law firm. He is Heydary Green PC’s Managing Director.
Michael has been practicing law in both the public and the private sectors for over 30 years, and the media often draws on his experience and expertise in family law and other areas of law as a resource for articles, interviews and panel discussions.
An adept family law lawyer, Michael has authored some half-dozen popular and widely-read books on family law issues covering everything from marriage contracts to helping children through a marital separation and divorce.
These easy-to-read books reflect Michael’s goal to solve problems for people going through a major life event. As a result, he translates complex rules, regulations and processes into
easy-to-understand concepts, knows how to ask the right questions at the right moment, and explains possible consequences and costs involved in a specific decision.
Michael has a gift for assisting clients in keeping a sense of balance in their lives and business during the intrusive impact of dispute resolution. One of his skills is his ability to put clients in control of decision-making through explaining each step – and their options – as a matter proceeds towards resolution.
At the same time, Michael uses facilitation, mediation, arbitration and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution to find a reasonable outcome. His wide legal knowledge and ability to zero in on the root of a key problem means Michael guides clients and their lawyers smoothly through ADR to a solution.
