Chris Osborn

Chris Osborn is a collaborative family lawyer, a certified Family Financial and Superior Court Mediator, and the founder of Osborn Family Law (www.osbornfamilylaw.com), representing families in all aspects of separation and divorce.

Chris uses his extensive training as a mediator and collaborative lawyer to help separating couples with complex child custody or equitable distribution issues find practical, cost-effective resolutions, outside the court system wherever possible.  He is a much sought-after teacher and trainer. He has taken and presented countless hours of educational programming on negotiation skills, applying trauma-informed principles in mediation, and the collaborative process.

Chris was certified by the N.C. Dispute Resolution Commission as a Superior Court mediator in 2009, and completed his Collaborative Practice training in 2016. Since then, he has completed and helped present numerous Collaborative Practice training for attorneys in North Carolina.  Chris was also certified by the N.C. Dispute Resolution Commission as a Family Financial Settlement Mediator in 2021.

In his 25+ years of litigation practice, including 11 years as an associate and shareholder with Horack Talley in Charlotte, he has helped clients reach amicable resolutions in a wide range of matters.  He is frequently engaged in mediating complex disputes involving title to real property, business ownership, and will contests or inheritance disputes.

From 2012-2015, Chris was an Assistant Professor at the Charlotte School of Law, where he taught “Interviewing, Client Counseling, and Negotiations,” along with first year classes in Contracts and Civil Procedure.

Chris is one of the founders of the North Carolina CarPool Lane, a program designed to connect self-represented litigants in family court cases with trained collaborative lawyers on a pro bono basis, in an effort to relieve the backlog of pro se cases in the current court system.

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