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| | Address | | 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 600 | | Houston, Texas 77046 | | (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.) | |  | Accepts Credit Cards |
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| | Contact Information | | Phone: 713-600-5500 | Telefax: 713-877-1658
URL: http://www.short-jenkins.com | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.jenkinskamin.com |  | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Jenkins & Kamin, LLP practices in the following areas of law:
Family Law, Divorce, Marital Property, Child Custody, Family Law Appellate Issues, Pre-Marital and Post-Marital Agreements, Complex Family Law Disputes. | | Year Established: 1980 | Firm Profile:
With over 140 years of combined legal experience, the lawyers of Short · Jenkins · Kamin, LLP offer a diversity of skills ranging from the detailed management of a complex property case to the sensitive advocacy of an emotionally charged custody proceeding. Coming from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, including the responsibilities for raising children of their own, the lawyers at Short & Jenkins understand the stakes involved in many of the family law matters entrusted to their management and expertise. With such a diversity of experiences and a teamwork approach to case management, Short · Jenkins · Kamin, LLP lawyers bring a unique collaboration of skills and talents to providing the specialized depth of experience necessary to meet the individual needs of each case. | | Firm Size: 12 | Languages:
English. | Office Hours:
Monday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Tuesday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Wednesday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Thursday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Friday: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
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Discover | | Joan F. Jenkins (Partner) born Houston, Texas, January 31, 1950; admitted to bar, 1982, Texas. Education: University of Texas (B.A., 1972); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1982). Listed in Best Lawyers in America and Selected as a Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly Magazine. Recipient: David A. Gibson Award for Professionalism and Excellence in Family Law, 1995. Co-Course Director, Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 2004. Assistant Course Director, Advanced Family Law Course, 1995. Course Director, New Frontiers in Marital Property, State Bar of Texas, 2000. Certified Arbitrator, AAML. Mediator, A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center. Instructor: State Bar of Texas, Advanced Family Law Course, 1989-2003; State Bar of Texas, Marriage Dissolution Institute, 1989-1994, 1997, 1999, 2000-2004; State Bar of Texas, General Paralegal Skills, 1988; University of Houston Law Center, General Practice Institute, 1990-1994, 1996; South Texas College of Law, Family Law Seminars, 1991-2000. Member, Revision Committee, Texas Family Law Practice Manual, State Bar of Texas, 1990-1996; Chair, 1996, 1998. Member: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Houston Bar Association (Member, Family Law Section; Chair, 1994-1995); American Bar Association; State Bar of Texas (Member, Supreme Court Child Support Guidelines Committee, Family Law Section, 1988-1998, Chair, 2002-2003, Member 4-F Grievance Committee, 1991-1993, Family Law Council, 1992-2004, Member, Ex Officio Supreme Court Advisory Committee, 1999-2002); College of the State Bar of Texas; Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists (President, 1998-1999); Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists (Director, 1992-1996); State Bar Foundation; Family Law Inns of Court. (Board Certified, Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Family Law; Litigation; Arbitration; Mediation; Collaborative Family Law. Email: Joan F. Jenkins | | Lynn Kamin (Partner) born Houston, Texas; admitted to bar, 1988, Texas. Education: University of Arizona (B.A.): San Francisco State University, University of California of Berkley Program (M.A., 1975); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1988). Listed in Best Lawyers in America and Selected as a Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly Magazine. Instructor/Author: Baylor College of Medicine; Child Abuse Task Force; CASA Volunteers; Houston Bar Association, Ad Litem Seminar, 1994; South Texas College of Law, Family Law Seminar, 1994-1995; Houston Volunteer Lawyers Seminar in Family Law, 1995-1996, 2004; Houston Bar Association (Family Law Handbook, Editor, 1996; Family Law Seminar, 1996, 1997, 2000-2002); State Bar of Texas (Advanced Family Law Seminar, 1996-2003); American Inns of Court Family Law, 1996; University of Houston, Family Law Practice Seminar 1997-1998. Sustaining Life Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation (Board Member, 2002, 2003; Chair Elect, 2003; Chair, 2004). Member: Houston Bar Association (Member, Family Law Section; Board of Directors, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996; Secretary, 1995, 1996; Chair Elect, 1997; Chair, 1998; Immediate Past Chair, 1999; Judicial Section Committee, 1999; Probate Bench/Bar Committee, 1996, 1998); State Bar of Texas; College of State Bar of Texas; Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; American Inns of Court (Family Law, Treasurer, 2001, 2002; Chair Elect, 2003; Chair, 2004); Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists; Board of Directors, 1995, 1997, 1999; Child Abuse Task Force Member, 1991, 1992; Childrens Assessment Center, Advisory Board, 1993-2000. Fellow: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. (Board Certified, Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Child Custody. Email: Lynn Kamin | | Sherri A. Evans (Partner) born Kermit, Texas, January 11, 1965; admitted to bar, 1993, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: University of Texas (B.B.A., 1987); Tulane University (J.D., 1992). Course Director, Advanced Family Law Course, 2008 and Family Law on the Front Lines, 2003-2008, University of Texas School of Law. Faculty, American Bar Association Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute, 2004-2007. Instructor: State Bar of Texas, Advanced Family Law Course, 2000, 2001, 2006; State Bar of Texas, Marriage Dissolution Institute, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007; South Texas College of Law, Family Law Conference, 2002, 2003, 2005; University of Texas School of Law, Family Law on the Front Lines, 2002; Half Moon Seminars, 2003, 2004; State Bar of Texas, Ultimate Trial Notebook, 2000; University of Houston Law Foundation, Family Law Practice Seminar, 2000, 2001, 2003; State Bar of Texas, Advanced Family Law Drafting Course, 1999; University of Texas School of Law, Texas Martial Property Institute, 1997. Member: Houston (Member, Family Law Section) and American (Member, Family Law Section) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas (Member: Family Law Section, Family Law Council); Texas Family Law Foundation; Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists (Board Member, 2000-2005; Secretary, 2001-2002; Treasurer, 2002-2003; President Elect, 2003-2004; President 2004-2005); College of the State Bar of Texas; Burta Rhoads Raborn Family Law Inns of Court (Secretary, Treasurer). (Board Certified, Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; International Family Law; Marital Property Law; Post Divorce Modification; Postnuptial Agreements; Premarital Agreements. Email: Sherri A. Evans | | ASSOCIATES | | Stephanie Solomon (Associate) admitted to bar, 2008, Texas. Education: Tulane University (B.A., 2002); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 2007). Certified Mediator, Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution. Member: Houston (Family Law Section) and American Bar Associations; Houston Young Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Family Law. | | John "Bo" Nichols, Jr. (Associate) admitted to bar, 1996, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Houston (B.S., 1993); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1996). Member: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; American Bar Association, Family Law Section; State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section; Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists; Houston, Bar Association, Family Law Section. (Board Certified, Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Post Divorce Modification; Marital Property Law; Domestic Violence. | | Sharon D. Cammack (Associate) born Beaumont, Texas, June 15, 1957; admitted to bar, 1995, Texas. Education: Lamar University (B.S., 1990); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1994). Recipient, Houston Bar Association President's Award, 2003-2004. Instructor/Author: Family Law Continuing Legal Education Annual Convention, State Bar of Texas, 2003; Family Law Seminar, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, 2002; Legal Assistants Division, General Practice Institute, 2000. Member, Editorial Board, The Houston Lawyer, 2004. Member: Houston Bar Association (Member: Family Law Section; Committee on Harris County Law Library; Co-Chair, Committee on Lawyers for Literacy, 2003-2004) and American Bar Association (Member, Family Law Section); State Bar of Texas (Member, Family Law Section); College of the State Bar of Texas; Burta R. Raborn Family Law Inns of Court; Texas Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Domestic Violence; Marital Property Law; Post Divorce Modification; Postnuptial Agreements; Premarital Agreements. | | Deborah L. Wright (Associate) born Dallas, Texas, July 5, 1948; admitted to bar, 1979, Texas. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.A., cum laude, 1970; M.P.H., 1972); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1979). Mediation Trainee, Attorney Mediators Institute, 1995. Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Trainee, South Texas College of Law, 1995. Student, A.A. White Dispute Resolution Institute, 1995. Collaborative Family Law Trainee, 2002. Member, Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists. Member: Houston Bar Association (Member: Family Law Section); State Bar of Texas (Member, Family Law Section); Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; College of the State Bar of Texas. (Board Certified, Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Family Law; Mediation; Collaborative Law. | | Eileen Marie Gaffney (Associate) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1968; admitted to bar, 1992, Texas. Education: University of St. Thomas (B.A., 1989); University of Houston (J.D., 1992). Member: American Bar Association, Family Law Section; State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section; Houston Bar Association, Family Law Section; Houston Young Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Appellate Law; Family Law; Collaborative Family Law; Divorce; Domestic Violence; Marital Property Law; Post Divorce Modification; Premarital Agreements; Postnuptial Agreements; Paternity. | | Shannon T. Moore (Associate) born Houston, Texas, July 30, 1968; admitted to bar, 2000, Texas. Education: Texas A & M University (B.S., 1991; M.A., 1993); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 2000). Recipient, J.D. Hirsh Scholarship. Member, Society of Texas A & M Real Estate Professionals, 1993—. Certified Mediator. Member: State Bar of Texas (Member, Family Law Section); Houston Bar Association (Member, Family Law Section). Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Domestic Violence; Marital Property Law; Post Divorce Modification. | | Elva Godwin (Associate) born Houston, Texas, September 15, 1949; admitted to bar, 1982; Texas. Education: Southwestern University (B.A., 1971); South Texas College of Law (J.D. 1981). Member: Houston (Sections on: Collaborative Law, Chair, 2008-2009; Family Law) and American (Member, Family Law Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Family Law; Collaborative Family Law; Marital Agreements; Marital Property Law. Email: Elva Godwin |
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