Family Law Mediation

My Mission

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I became a mediator after many years of legal practice.  I have

chosen to focus on the area of Family Law Mediation after several years of practicing Family Law and watching how the adversarial process riddles away at the very fiber of families. 

In my mediations, I have seen couples devise the most creative and wonderful settlements.  And I have seen so many couples part on good terms.  This is quite essential for those who will be co-parenting together for the rest of their lives. 

Families, today, come in all shapes and sizes.  Divorce is the ending of one shape and the beginning of another.  A strong and harmonious new beginning is the most optimal way to end a union originally born from the hopes and dreams of the past. 

My Background

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Legal                     Southern Methodist School of Law

Education:           Dallas, Texas

                             Juris Doctor, 1991

                                  Law Review:     Journal of Air Law and Commerce

                                                         Notes and Comments Editor, 1990-1991

                                                        Staff, 1989-1990

                            Bracewell & Patterson Legal Research and Writing Award, 1989

                            Phi Delta Phi

                            Moot Court Associate Justice, 1990

                            Admitted to State Bar of Texas , 1991

 

Post-Graduate         Certificate in General Mediation, 2005 (40 hours)

Legal Education:     American Arbitration Association

 

                              Certificate in Domestic Mediation, 2005 (32 hours)                 

                              Southern Methodist University

 

 

                             The Civil Collaborative Dispute Resolution Process,

                             2005, DBA/Texas Collaborative Council/Texas Center

                             For Legal Ethics and Professionalism

                            

                             Collaborative Negotiating Workshop, 2003

                             Collaborative Law Dallas/Chip Rose J.D., Presenter

 

                             Marriage, Divorce & Children’s Adjustment, 2000

                             Texas Woman’s University

                                     

Legal                          

Memberships:           State Bar of Texas

                                    College of the State Bar of Texas

                                     Dallas Bar Association 

                                     Association of Attorney Mediators

                                     Association for Conflict Resolution

                            

Other Honors:              Graduate Playwright Award, Brandeis University, 1981
                                    Citation for Outstanding Service to the Public, FTC, 1993
                                    Inventor, U.S. Patent Holder 6120202, 1999