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Joan F. Jenkins

  • Bankruptcy, Before, During and After Divorce Advanced Family Law Seminar, State Bar of Texas
  • Standing in a Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship Advanced Family Law Seminar, State Bar of Texas
  • Wrapping Up the Case Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas, August
  • The Strategy of a Custody Case (Co-Author), Encyclopedia of Matrimonial Practice
  • Developing a Winning Theme, Witnesses and Effective Demonstrative Evidence, American Journal of Family Law
  • Jurors' Perspectives of Family Law Trials - A Survey and Analysis, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Bankruptcy and Divorce, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Proving and Collecting Attorneys Fees, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Recent Cases, Interesting, Alarming and Otherwise, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Standing in a Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship, Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas
  • Professionalism in Family Law, Family Law Conference for the Practitioner and Legal Assistant, South Texas College of Law
  • Protective Orders, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Daubert Examination of a Psychological Expert, Annual Trial Institute, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists
  • Summary Judgment:  An Overlooked, Underused But Useful Tool, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Expect the Unexpected, Winning Techniques Seminar
  • Attorney Fees (Setting and Collecting Fees), Annual Family Law Institute
  • Retracing:  Conflicting Rules of Tracing, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Premarital Agreements:  Negotiation and Litigation, Advanced Drafting:  Estate Planning and Probate Court, State Bar of Texas
  • Modifications Made Easy, Family Law Conference for the General Practitioner and the Legal Assistant, South Texas College of Law
  • Getting Clients and Keeping Them (And You) Happy:  Contracts and Fee Collections, Getting Hired, Getting Paid, Getting, Out, Third Annual Family Law Institute
  • How to Try a Reimbursement Case, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Protective Orders, TRO’s and Other Emergency Measure, Family Law Seminar, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program
  • Reliability and Validity of Psychological Testing for Custody Determination, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Avoiding the Reinvention of the Wheel or Trial Preparation Made Easy – Where to Look – What to Use, The Ultimate Trial Notebook, State Bar of Texas
  • Characterization of Trusts and Business Entities, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Closing the File, Including Closing Documents, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Economic Contribution, Texas Lawyer
  • Valuation, Characterization and Division of Unusual Assets, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Winning Trial Techniques for the Property Case, Annual Trial Institute, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists
  • It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over!  Closing the File:  Practice Tips & Checklists to Avoid the “M” Word, Family Law on the Front Lines, University of Texas
  • Relocation – Where is Anyone Going?, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Relocation – Where is Anyone Going?, Legal Assistants University, State Bar of Texas
  • Brainteasers – Unresolved Questions of Property Law, New Frontiers in Marital Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Relocation Issue is on the Move, Texas Bar Journal
  • Modifications, Family Law Seminar, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program
  • Dividing Business Entities; Stock Options; Enforcing Property Divisions Through Receiverships; Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans; Trust Property, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Conflicts of Laws – Texas Law and the Restatement and Its Applicability to Our Practice, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Relocation of Children After Divorce and Children’s Best Interests:  New Evidence and Legal Considerations, AFCC Judicial Conference
  • Discovery Don’ts, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Modifications, Family Law Seminar, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program
  • The Burden of Pleading & Proof When Seeking Economic Recovery in Divorce Cases, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Practical Preparation for TRO Hearings, Temporary Orders Hearings and Trial, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Valuation Discounts for Closely Held Companies, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Divorce and Domestic Violence:  Dealing with Protective Orders in Divorce Court and Criminal Court, Criminal Law Conference, South Texas College of Law
  • Maximizing the Take at a Final Property Hearing, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Business Valuation Scenarios, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Professionalism, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Issues for the Advanced Collaborative Law Practice, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • A Dictionary of Business Organizations and Trusts Encountered in the Family Law Case, New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, State Bar of Texas
  • ADR Drafting Issues:  Collaborative Law, Mediation and Arbitration, Advanced Family Law Drafting Course, State Bar of Texas
  • Family Law Legislative Update, Family Law Institute, Houston Bar Association
  • Legislative Update, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas
  • Practical Preparation for Final Non-Jury Trials, Advanced Family Law Boot Camp, State Bar of Texas
  • Legislative Update – Presenting Our New Statutes and a few Reflections on the Mystery that is Democracy – the 81st Legislative Session in Action, Advanced Family Law, State Bar of Texas
  • Legislative Updates in Family Law, Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar, State Bar of Texas

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Lynn Kamin

  • Extraterritorial Custody Issues: The UCCJEA, PKPA, And The Hague Convention (with Sharon D. Cammack), Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 2001.
  • Meeting and Making Objections, Family Law Section, HBA, Houston, Texas, 2000.
  • Nuts and Bolts, Serving as Ad Litem, Houston, Texas 2000.
  • Dealing with Social Issues, Ad Litem, and CASA Volunteers: A Curse or a Blessing?, Advanced Family Law Seminar, San Antonio, Texas 1998.
  • Child Support: Issues & Modification, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1998.
  • Child Support: Issues & Modifications, University of Houston Family Law Practice Seminar, Houston, Texas, 1997.
  • Retirement, Pensions, and That Ugly Word…QDRO’s, Advanced Family Law Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, 1997.
  • Valuation and Division Workshop, Advanced Family Law Seminar, San Antonio, Texas 1997.
  • Interim Attorney Fees, American Inns of Court, Family Law, 1996.
  • Handling Sexual Abuse Allegations, Advanced Family Law Seminar, San Antonio, Texas 1996.
  • Houston Bar Association Family Law Handbook, Editor, 1996.
  • Modifying Child Support, South Texas College of Law, Houston Volunteer Lawyers, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
  • Maximizing Your Talents in Educating your Lawyers on What You Can and Cannot Do, Fifty Annual Family Law Seminar for General Practitioner and Legal Assistant, South Texas College of Law, 1995.
  • Serving as Ad Litem: The Nuts and Bolts Director, Houston Bar Association – Family Law Section, 1994, Houston, Texas.
  • Custody and Conservatorship, South Texas College of Law, Fourth Annual Family Law Seminar, 1994.
  • The Role of Mental Health Care Experts in Child Custody Cases, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas.
  • The Role of Attorney Ad Litem in Child Custody Cases, Child Abuse Task Force Houston, Texas.
  • The Role of Attorney Ad Litem in Child Custody Cases, CASA Volunteers, Harris County, Texas.

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Sherri A. Evans

  • Tracing, (with Stewart Gagnon), Expert Witness Manual, State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section, 2002.
  • Identifying Marital Property Issues Upon Divorce, Family Law of the Front Lines, University of Texas Law School, 2002.
  • Predicates, Presumptions, and Privileges, (with Michelle M. Purvis), Advanced Family Law Seminar, State Bar of Texas, 2001.
  • Taxation of Stock Options, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas, 2001.
  • Trying the Complex Property Case, Family Law Practice Seminar, University of Houston Law Foundation, 2001, 2000.
  • Organizing the Trial Notebook, Ultimate Trial Notebook, State Bar of Texas, 2000.
  • Securing and Enforcing the Property Award, Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 2000.
  • Ethical Considerations, Marriage Dissolution Institute, State Bar of Texas, 2000.
  • Retracing: Conflicting Rules of Tracing (with Joan F. Jenkins and Sallee Smyth), New Frontiers in Marital Property, State Bar of Texas, 1999.
  • Property Forms You Never Knew Were in the Family Law Practice Manual, Advanced Family Law Drafting Course, State Bar of Texas, 1999.
  • Child Support: How to Establish it, Withhold it, and Draft Decrees so That it Will be Enforceable, Family Law Seminar, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, 1999.
  • Bankruptcy and Divorce Revisited (with Joan F. Jenkins), Texas Marital Property Institute, University of Texas School of Law, 1997.

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John F. (Bo) Nichols, Jr.

  • Ethical Considerations in the Practice of Mediation, Fourth Annual Family Law Mediation Training Seminar, South Texas College of Law, 1998.
  • What are My Rights as a Grandparent (author), Texas Bar Journal, 2005 Year in Review, January 2006, Vol. 69, No.1.
  • Ultimate Trial Notebook-Personal Injury (assisting in research and editing), 1995
  • Common Mistakes in the Court's Charge and Charge Conference (assisting in research and editing), 1996
  • Persuasive Trial Techniques and Courtroom Interaction Skills (assisting in research and editing), 1996
  • Jury Persuasion-Voir Dire, Opening Statement, Trial and Final Argument (assisting in research and editing), 1996
  • Marital Property Agreements (assisting in research and editing), 1996
  • HIV and Child Custody, 1996
  • Inquiries and Caveats - Daubert Proofing your Expert

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Sharon D. Cammack

  • Extraterritorial Custody Issues: The UCCJEA, PKPA, And The Hague Convention (with Lynn Kamin), Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 2001.
  • Speaker: Ethical Considerations in Divorce, 2nd Annual General Practice Institute, Legal Assistants Division, 2000.
  • A Review of Ethical Rules: Application for Daily Practice (with J. Lindsey Short, Jr.), 12th Annual Trial Institute, 1998.
  • Dealing with Social Studies, Ad Litems and CASA Volunteers: A Curse or a Blessing? (with Lynn Kamin and Honorable E. Lorraine Wilson), Advanced Family Law Course, 1998.
  • Child Support Issues and Modifications (with Lynn Kamin), Family Law Practice Seminar, University of Houston Law Center Foundation, 1997.
  • Valuation of a Business in Business Litigation (with Lynn Kamin, Robert Hoffman and Tom Ausley), Advanced Family Law Course, 1997.
  • Handling a Child’s Testimony and Hearsay (with J. Lindsey Short, Jr.), Advanced Family Law Course, 1997.
  • Enforcement Problems with Unique Assets – or – What is Marcia Clark’s Next Husband’s Interest in Her Autobiography? (with J. Lindsey Short, Jr.) Advanced Family Law Course, 1996.
  • Ethical Consideration with Discovery and Evidence (with J. Lindsey Short, Jr.), 7th Annual Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, 1994.

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