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Norma L Trusch, JD
(Lawyer)
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Norma Levine Trusch, Past President of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals 2004 and 2005, is a founding board member of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Inc. (CLI-Tx), and a frequent lecturer on Collaborative Law. She currently is the chair of the Training Committee of CLI-Tx, and an active trainer in the Texas model of Interdisciplinary Collaborative Law.
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| Professional Activities |
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President, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals - 2004 and 2005;
Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 1990-2006;
Trustee, Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Inc. 2001-2006; Member of Collaborative Law Section of the Houston Bar Association; Board Member, Family Law Section of State Bar of Texas;
Frequent lecturer on Family Law and Collaborative Law;
Member of the Collaborative Law Training faculties at the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Advanced Family Law Course presented by the State Bar of Texas; Faculty member of Spring Conference of Collaborative Law Institute of Texas; Adjunct Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law teaching Texas Marital Property Law and Collaborative Law courses;
Team member of LoneStar Collaborative Law Trainers;
Observer to the Uniform Law Commissions's committee to Draft a Uniform Collaborative Law Act.
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| Professional Licenses |
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Licensed to practice law by the State Bar of Texas
Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
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| General Comments |
| As a Board Certified family lawyer I have spent most of my career working to bring an atmosphere of calm and sanity to my clients involved in family law disputes. I believe that it is the responsibility of lawyers involved in divorce to defuse the hostility that threatens to destroy whatever hope the parties may have to co-parent their children or to put the divorce behind them and develop healthy relationships in the future. Collaborative Law holds out the hope for parties involved in family disputes that they can emerge from the process with their dignity and self-respect intact. I am a member of the Collaborative Law practice group that helped pass the first collaborative law statute in the United States, and have been conducting collaborative law trainings for the State Bar of Texas, The Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Inc., and at South Texas College of Law since 2002. As a member of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Inc., I am a co-author of that organization's Protocols of Practice for Collaborative Lawyers of Texas. As immediate Past President of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals I am dedicated to the transformation of the practice of law to Collaborative Practice. |
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| Areas of Practice |
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Collaborative Law
Family Law
Mediation
Teaching
Trainer
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| Education |
| Undergraduate Education |
University of Oklahoma - BFA, with Honors - 1957
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| Professional Education |
South Texas College of Law - 1977
Magna Cum Laude |
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| Collaborative Practice Training |
| Year |
Training Type |
Instructor |
Hours |
| 2000 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
Tesler and Webb |
12 |
| 2000 |
Intermediate Collaborative Law Training |
Tesler and Webb |
12 |
| 2003 |
Intermediate Collaborative Law Training |
Rose and Slovin |
12 |
| 2003 |
Advanced Collaborative Law Training |
Rose |
6 |
| 2004 |
Basic Interdisciplinary Training |
Bordett and Bushfield |
12 |
| 2004 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
Rose |
12 |
| 2004 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2005 |
Basic Interdisciplinary Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2005 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2005 |
Intermediate Collaborative Law Training |
I was instructor |
6 |
| 2005 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2006 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2006 |
Basic Interdisciplinary Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2007 |
Basic Interdisciplinary Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2007 |
Basic Collaborative Law Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2008 |
Basis Interdisciplinary Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
| 2009 |
Basic Interdisciplinary Training |
I was instructor |
12 |
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** I have reviewed the IACP Minimum Standards for Collaborative Practitioners and the IACP Ethical Standards for Collaborative Professionals. I verify that I meet the IACP Minimum Standards for Collaborative Practitioners and that I apply the IACP Ethical Standards for Collaborative Professionals in my collaborative practice.
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** I have reviewed the IACP Minimum Standards for Collaborative Trainers I verify that I am a Collaborative Practice trainer who meets those Minimum Standards.
** I have reviewed the IACP Minimum Standards for a Collaborative Basic Training. I verify that the basic training that I offer as a Collaborative Practice trainer meets those Minimum Standards.
IACP does not verify the information provided by the professionals listed in this directory.
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