Integrative Lawyers of the World

Debra Segrott, South Africa - Integrative Lawyers of the World Series 5, Episode 5

Episode Summary

Debra Segrott is from South Africa and specializes in Family and Child Law. She is an accredited mediator and facilitator and has been trained in Collaborative Divorce Law. In 2019, complications from a hip surgery left propelled Ms. Segrott to take stock of her life, including her legal practice.  As a result, she got very clear –she would no longer litigate cases. She resides in Cape Town, has three adult sons, focuses solely on mediation, and has a dream of building a thriving collaborative law practice and community in South Africa.

Episode Notes

In this conversation, we discuss:

• working with load shedding practices in South Africa and how this affects everyday life
• how gender discrimination pushed her into opening her own firm because, as one person told her at the time, no one would hire a female litigator and questioned “what would happen if the kids got sick” 
• her path from litigation to mediation to collaborative law
• Being an observer at Collaborative Alliance in Minnesota started by Ron Ousky (ILOW S5, Ep.1)
• Insights and practical suggestions for starting something new
• her complications from hip surgery and how she found many gifts in this injury
• her struggles with, and dream of, building a collaborative community in South Africa

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