Mark Springfield

Mark A. Springfield is an attorney and certified mediator. For many years he was a trial lawyer with a major regional law firm in North Carolina. Having grown weary of the cost and destructiveness of litigation as a method for resolving disputes, he now restricts his law practice to collaborative law in the family law area. As a pioneer in this alternative to court, he was featured in a front-page article in the Raleigh News & Observer.

Mr. Springfield received his B.A. Degree from Wake Forest University in 1981, where he had a double major in Economics and French. He attended The University of Georgia Law School. He was selected to serve on the editorial staff of the Georgia Law Review and graduated cum laude in 1984. Following law school, Mr. Springfield had a two-year clerkship with Judge Harold L. Murphy, U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Georgia where he assisted the Judge in federal civil and criminal trials. From 1986 to 1997, Mr. Springfield was a litigation attorney with Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan in Raleigh. In 1998, he established his own firm.

Starting in 2002, Mr. Springfield began developing a practice exclusively designed to help clients resolve conflicts outside of the courthouse, employing mediation and collaborative law. Mr. Springfield was a founder of the Carolina Collaborative Law Group and serves as its President. In addition to his collaborative family law practice, Mr. Springfield teaches conflict resolution as part of the mediation training for UNC Health Systems, the Office of State Personnel, and North Carolina Central Law School.

Mr. Springfield has been married for twenty years to Lynn Springfield, the Director of Elementary Children’s Ministries at White Memorial Presbyterian Church. They have three children, ages 15, 12, and 9.