Chris Osborn

D. Christopher Osborn
Attorney, Osborn Conflict Resolution
320 State Street
Charlotte NC 28208
704-800-0277
www.OsbornConflictResolution.com

Chris Osborn is a collaborative family lawyer, a collaborative lawyer for civil disputes, and the founder of Osborn Conflict Resolution.

Chris uses his extensive training as a Superior Court mediator and trained collaborative lawyer to help separating and divorcing couples, deadlocked businesses, and families with inheritance disputes find practical, cost-effective solutions to complex financial and relational problems. In his 25+ years of 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, including separation and divorce, business breakups, complex construction disputes, and will caveats.

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 theN.C. Dispute Resolution Commission as a Family Financial Settlement Mediator in 2021.

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.

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 also the co-founder of ReelTime CLE (www.reeltimecle.com), an internationally-renowned provider of dynamic, interactive CLE workshops, conferences, law firm retreats, and professional development training programs

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