Stephen Cullen and Kelly Powers, principals in the firm's Family Law practice group, wrote the fourth in a series of articles for Best Lawyers.

In the 1970s, a Texas attorney and professor, Cromwell Adair Dyer, Jr., joined a little known international organization in The Hague, Netherlands called the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference. This entity is an international organization for the cross-border cooperation in civil and commercial matters. The organization had worked with countries around the world on various civil and commercial international agreements and treaties that were largely unknown to the general public. However, Professor Dyer had an idea for a treaty for the protection of children that would become one of the most important treaties of all time.

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