2011 Super Lawyers Pro Bono Award
Attorney Profile

Sharla J. Fuller

Sharla Fuller

KoonsFuller, PC
1717 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1500
Dallas, TX 75202

Dallas

Texas (TX)

Contact Contact Sharla J. Fuller
T: 214-871-2727
F: 214-871-0196

Visit: www.koonsfuller.com
Practice Areas: Family Law (100%)

Family Law

Profile

Sharla Fuller has been selected one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas. She is also a prolific author, having teamed with Koons Fuller managing partner Ike Vanden Eykel to write Lone Star Divorce, which was published in 2008.

She began her legal career in East Texas before joining Koons, Fuller, Vanden Eykel & Robertson in 2000. She worked for the law firm of Wynne & Wynne in her home town of Wills Point, handling family law litigation and counseling from 1994 through 2000, and serving as president of the Van Zandt County Bar Association.

Ms. Fuller was born November 7, 1967, graduated valedictorian of her high school class, earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington (1990, ranked first in her class), and attended graduate business courses at Southern Methodist University.

She received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law (1993), where she interned for Texas Supreme Court Justice Jack Hightower and was a research assistant for UT law professor Robert W. Hamilton.

She is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the Family Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association, and the Texas Young Lawyers Association, and is admitted to practice before the U. S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas.  She has been elected to the Annette Stewart American Inn of Court and has served as an attorney coach or judge for the Region 10 Texas High School Mock Trial Competition since 1996.

Selected To

Texas Super Lawyers 2007
Texas Super Lawyers 2006
Texas Super Lawyers 2005
Texas Super Lawyers 2004
Texas Super Lawyers 2003

About Sharla Fuller

Admitted: 1994, Texas

Honors and Awards:

  • Dean's Achievement Award for highest grade in Marital Property Rights, University of Texas, 1993

Special Licenses/Certifications:

  • Board Certified in Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Admitted to Practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas

Bar/Professional Activity:

  • Member, Texas Association of Family Law Specialists; Member, Dallas Bar Association (Family Law Section); Member, State Bar of Texas (Family Law Section

Pro bono/Community Service:

  • Region 10 Texas High School Mock Trial Competition, Attorney Coach and Judge

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

  • Lone Star Divorce, The New Edition, What Everyone Should Know About Family Breakups in Texas, Co-author, 2007; When the Texas SPO Won't Work: Square Pegs in Round Holes Advanced Family Law Course, 2005; Family Law: New Tools and Trends, Baylor Law School General Practice Institute, 2005; Relocation: Current Issues, Including Jury Trials, University of Houston Law Foundation Family Law Practice Seminar, 2005

Other Outstanding Achievements:

  • Intern for Supreme Court of Texas, Justice Jack Hightower, 1993

Educational Background:

  • The University of Texas at Arlington, Bachelor of  Science in Architecture, with honors; Southern Methodist University, post-graduate business courses, 1990
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