TEXAS MODERN MEDIATION NEWSLETTER
July 2020 • Mediator Tom King, J.D.
MEDIATION MOBILE APP
Introducing the first mobile app for Texas family law, CPS and mediation. It includes:

  • Mediation scheduling & payment
  • Zoom session launching
  • Texas Family Code
  • Courtroom Notepad
  • Basic, Mortgage, C/S Calculators
  • Texas Family Law Facebook Groups
  • Free CLE Registration to the TMMC
  • Vendor & Sponsor Weblinks
  • State Bar of Texas contacts
  • Harris County Family Law contacts
  • ... and Tom's favorite local restaurants

This free app is available by clicking below:


Apple Mac OS desktop and laptop users can also download a version from the Mac OS App Store on your Apple computer by searching "Tom King Mediation". For more info, visit tomking.com and please send feedback!
RACIAL JUSTICE
I struggle with the present state of race relations and equal justice for all. At my request, some trusted African-American colleagues have suggested some reading that might interest us all. I've also added a race-relations topics to our upcoming mediation conference January 22, 2021 for which Houston Attorney / City Councilman Edward Pollard has agreed to participate. Join me in reading the below items to better understand how some of our colleagues are feeling and suggest any books or articles for future newsletters:

MEDIATION BROWSER EXTENSION
Next month, we will launch an extension to enhance your Chrome Web Browser with 1,300+ constantly organized and updated Texas family law, CPS and mediation bookmarks for these topics:

  • Background Checks
  • Clients
  • Clerks, Counties & Courts
  • Discovery
  • Dispute Resolution & Mediation
  • Divorces & SAPCRs
  • E-Filing
  • Family Violence & CPS Cases
  • Military & Veterans
  • Modifications & Enforcements
  • News & Newsletters
  • Notice & Service
  • Paralegals
  • Parent-Child Topics
  • Property Topics
  • State Agencies & Organizations
  • Technology
  • Texas Family Code
  • Training & Certification

MEDIATION CONFERENCE - 15 HOURS FREE CLE
Each January, the Texas Modern Mediation Conference (TMMC) offers all 15 hours of your CLE for FREE including the event, parking, beverages, snacks, a great and diverse lunch selection, beer, wine, and a family law giveaway bag. Registration opens October 1st and it is always the Friday after MLK Day, so mark your calendars for 1/22/2021.

Registration opens only to subscribers of this newsletter each October 1st and all 500 slots usually sell out the first week. Click here for the mediation panel topics and related helpsheets for the conference. Speaker invites go out next week. So get your whole year of CLE done in ONE day in Bellaire, Texas at the Texas Justice Center... for FREE!
TEXAS ONLINE & HOUSTON ONSITE MEDIATIONS
Statewide online and Houston onsite mediation is $250 per side with a 90% success rate on final orders. I am now resuming onsite mediations in Houston, but strongly encourage you to experience just one online mediation with me.

FALL 2020 / WINTER 2021
Online mediation is here to stay and is the best way to mediate for the next year. Here is why: