I'm comfortable saying I have a reputation for being reasonable, certainly not litigious. The proportion of cases that I settle is probably greater than the norm - more than 90%, at least. And I am sent a steady amount of cases in which I serve as the arbitrator. At this point I suppose I can say I'm good at it.

Going to court with a divorce is foolish - candidly, it's a waste of time and money. The quality of the judiciary is good, but the system itself is simply too slow and not equipped to review the intricacies of a complex case - not when the court has 20 other cases to handle that day.

Much of my work today involves reviewing and studying documents - it's not uncommon I'll spend five days in a back room of my office reading tax returns and valuation reports. But that is the nature of the work - it is about valuing assets, many of which haven't been valued in a long time, or not at all.

At this point I do not get involved in bitter custody fights. My practice is focused today on cases involving substantial assets - if your assets don't total at least several million dollars you probably would not be coming to me.

Certainly the practice has changed. The courts are no longer interested in who is at fault. I used to have private investigators in my Rolodex - now I have forensic accountants and business valuators.

Are people better informed about divorce than they were 20 years ago? Not necessarily. People hear a lot of things about divorce - from friends, from family - but they should let it go in one ear and out the other. The Internet has made a lot of information available -- but much of it is misleading, incomplete, or just plain wrong.

But I love it - I focus now on what I like and what I'm good at. And I've still got plenty to do.