Activities

Honors

• Awarded “Community Partner Award” by the Denton Family Resource Center for her work on the “For Kid’s Sake” program, the county sponsored parenting class for divorcing parents (2006)
• Named “Bar Member of the Year” by the Denton County Bar Association (2004-2005)
• Denton County Bar Association named “Best Bar” by the State Bar of Texas during presidency (1993-1994)
• Named “Attorney of the Year” by the Greater Denton Legal Assistants Association (1993)

Author/Speaker/Course Director/Collaborative Law Trainer

• Course Director and Presenter at the Texas Bar CLE Collaborative Law Course 2009 co-delivering "The Splitting Syndrome in Collaborative Cases" with David Bouschor, II, MaryAnn Kildebeck and Steve Walker.
• Collaborative Law trainer with New Paradigm Training, offering interdisciplinary training for legal professionals, mental health professionals, financial professionals and their staff.
• Co-speaker with brother Wes Milner, presenting the Stu Webb Lecture (plenary session) at the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals 9th Annual Forum in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 18, 2008. Their presentation is entitled: JUSTICE VS. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION: Have we been asking the wrong question all along?
  Listen to the Audio Archive of their presentation.
  Read this article taken from the Denton Record Chronicle, October 12, 2008.
• Presenter at Tarrant County Association of Mediators, May 19. 2008 on The Pitfalls of Settlement Respecting the Attorney/Client Relationship. See the TCAM July 2008 Newsletter
• KERA talk show "Think" with Kris Boyd - March 26, 2008 - Collaborative Law and the Less-Messy Divorce - Camille Milner and Dallas attorney Kevin Fuller interview on the history, trends, and positive outcomes of the process of Collaborative Law
• Co-Course Director for the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Spring Retreat February (2008)
• 2008 Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Spring Conference: “Fine Wine on a Beer Budget: A Checklist to Facilitate Collaborative Law Cases for the Middle Income Divorce” [co-authored and presented with David S. Bouschor, II] (February, 2008)
• 8th Annual Forum of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Toronto, Canada: “Collaborative Law in One Hundred Years: Historic Relic or Cultural Icon?” [co-authored and presented with David S. Bouschor, II] (October, 2007)
• Co-Course Director for the First Annual Denton County Collaborative Professionals’ Spring Retreat (May, 2007)
  Collaborative Law Trainer for the Texas Wesleyan Law School, Fort Worth, Texas (September, 2007)
• Presenter: First Annual Denton County Collaborative Professionals Spring Retreat (2007)
  2006 Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Spring Retreat: “Debunking the Myths Collaborative Law” [co-authored and presented with David Bouschor, II and Janice Green] (2006)
• Dallas County Bar Association Family Law Section: “How to Create and Manage a County Mediation Program” (2006)
• 31st Annual Advanced Family Law Course (Texas): “How to Run Your Hamburger Stand or Your Collaborative Practice” (2005)
• State Bar of Texas Bar Leaders’ Conference: “How to Create and Manage a County Mediation Program” (2005)
• State Bar of Texas Bar Leaders’ Conference: “How to Effectively Run a Medium-Sized Bar Association” (2004)
• 28th Annual Advanced Family Law Course (Texas): “Passing the Board Certification Exam” (2002)
• Denton County Family Law Section: “Developing and Implementing a Parenting Class for Divorcing Parents” (2002)

The Collaborative Approach

The Law Office of S. Camille Milner strongly advocate the Collaborative Law Process. Through the Collaborative Process, the attorneys and other professionals assist the parties in resolving their cases by interest-based negotiation (positive/constructive) rather than position-based negotiation (negative/destructive) without the trauma or expense of “going to court.” This is accomplished by face-to-face meetings where we explore the parties’ interests, goals and options and in a very civilized approach and reach a “win-win” resolution for the parties.

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