Laura Dale is a founding member of Myres, Dale & Associates P.C., Board Certified in Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and Legal Counsel to the Consulate General of France, Houston Texas. Laura Dale practices in the area of family law involving high conflict divorce and custody case, international abduction and other cases brought under the Hague Convention. She is fluent in French. Laura is a certified mediator, amicus attorney, and parenting coordinator under the Texas parenting coordinator statute. She received her JD from South Texas College of Law and is licensed by the Texas Supreme Court, and admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Court Southern District. Laura received a BA from the University of Texas in 1978, where she majored in psychology and anthropology. As an undergraduate she interned at the Austin State Hospital for two years, working with children and adolescents. She obtained a master's degree in psychophysiology and a doctoral degree in neuroscience from the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. There she served as a recherche attache with the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique and published in several internationally recognized medical journals, including: Electro-encephalography and Clinical Neuro-physiology; Physiological Psychology; the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology; La Nouvelle Presse Medicale; Revue Francaise des Maladies Respiratoires; Journal de Physiologie . Laura Dale has an extensive business management background. Previously she served as Vice President of Americans for Fair Taxation (AFFT), a non-profit, non-partisan, national advocacy group with a membership base of more than 250,000. Ms. Dale managed daily operations of the organization and a $15,000,000 operating budget. She supervised an extensive consulting staff and served as director of research for the organization. The AFFT economic research team included: Harvard University; Stanford University; Boston University; the Baker Institute at Rice University; MIT; the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Cato Institute; the Heritage Foundation; and the Argus Group. She is married to Robert Dale III, has two sons, Jacques Weber, Jr. and Robert Dale IV, and is a native Houstonian.