janet p. brumley

Janet P. Brumley is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, an organization that recognizes an attorney’s commitment to continued legal education. She is rated A/V by her peers in the Martindale-Hubbell directory for her outstanding command of the law and her high ethics.  She has been practicing family law in the Dallas area and statewide for almost 30 years. Ms. Brumley has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (the top 5% of attorneys in the state) each year since its inception and in 2005 is named as one of the “50 Best Women Lawyers in Texas.”  She also has been selected for membership in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Ms. Brumley attended Harvard Law School for the Advanced Negotiation and Deal-Making Workshop in June 2005. She recognizes the enormous role of negotiation, particularly interest-based negotiation, in the area of family law.

She is a frequent presenter at Advanced Family Law, the continuing legal education seminar attended by approximately 1800 Texas family law attorneys each year. In both 2004 and 2005, Ms. Brumley served as chair and co-chair, respectively, of the workshop section of the seminar on Advanced Collaborative Law. She was also co-chair of the 2005 Core Skills Seminar for the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

Ms. Brumley is particularly interested in collaborative law and has written a book on the subject called “Divorce Without Disaster:  Collaborative Law in Texas” and trains other lawyers in Texas and across the nation in collaborative practice. This book is available for purchase through amazon.com or directly from our office. She has been interviewed and cited in numerous newspaper articles and television programs on the subject of collaborative practice and has served as the chair of the Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers. As a family law litigator, she has seen the damage litigation wreaks on Texas families and has eagerly embraced this new process for handling family law matters outside the courthouse and the destructive legal machinery. Her enormous caseload of successfully negotiated collaborative law matters has reinforced her belief in the superiority for the client of this process.

As a wife, mother and grandmother, she is committed to the advancement in law of the sanctity of the family. It is her belief that although divorce may be the best and inevitable answer between husband and wife, the family unit needs to be restructured, not destroyed. Too frequently the enmity incurred by the process of litigation destroys the last remnants of the family unit held together by the parents for the sake of the children.

Ms. Brumley also is trained in mediation and serves as a mediator for both litigation and collaborative law cases.