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McClure Law Group: The Dallas Family Law Attorney Who Sat on the State Bar’s Own Grievance Committee

McClure Law Group is a Dallas family law attorney boutique led by a former tax lawyer turned 20-time Texas Super Lawyer — one who once served on the State Bar of Texas’s own grievance committee, the body that disciplines other attorneys.

McClure Law Group — Dallas Family Law Attorney At a Glance

Sources: mcclure-lawgroup.com (firm website), Super Lawyers, D Magazine. Compiled August 2026.

Origin: From Tax Law to the State Bar’s Grievance Committee

Kelly McClure earned her B.S. in Political Science from Fairfield University in 1981, studied at Oxford University’s summer legal program, and received her J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 1984, the same year she was admitted to the Texas bar. She began her career in tax law before shifting to family law — a background that now shows up directly in her stated approach to high-asset divorce, where property division and tax consequences are frequently intertwined.

McClure earned Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Family Law in 1995. Earlier in her career, from 1992 to 1996, she served on the State Bar of Texas’s own Grievance Committee — the body responsible for investigating and disciplining attorney misconduct statewide, a role that requires the bar’s own trust and puts a lawyer on the evaluating rather than evaluated side of the disciplinary process. She also directed the Dallas Bar Association’s Family Law Section across multiple terms between 1992 and 2009, and received the Association’s 1992 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award and its Hartman Award for leadership advocacy supporting legal services for victims of domestic violence.

Where the Firm Concentrates

McClure Law Group practices family law exclusively, with particular concentration in high-net-worth and high-profile divorce, child custody and property division, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and collaborative law — McClure describes herself as an active proponent of the Collaborative Law movement specifically. The firm’s own materials describe representing CEOs, professional athletes, and public figures, alongside stay-at-home parents and other clients across the full range of financial circumstances. Readers comparing options can see how this profile fits alongside other Family Law & Divorce attorneys covered on Awesome Attorneys.

Notable Work

As with other family law practices, individual case outcomes are typically confidential rather than published as dollar figures. The firm’s own materials describe one specific matter in detail: representing the CEO of a multimillion-dollar company in a premarital agreement that later held up at a highly contested divorce trial, successfully confirming his separate-property business interests and securing primary possession of his child — a result attributed to the firm’s own reporting and not independently verified against court records for this profile.

Client Voice

The firm’s published client reviews are attributed by first and last name, a higher bar of attribution than the initials-only pattern common at some competitors:

“Kelly is detailed oriented and she truly cares about her clients. Her knowledge of the laws and her ability to get a case resolved make her stand far above others.” — Peter Morgan

“Kelly and her team are always a pleasure to work with, and their work product always exceeds one’s expectations.” — George Tamke

These are drawn from the firm’s own published reviews; Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify reviewer identities beyond the names provided, a standard limitation across attorney-published testimonials.

Beyond the Courtroom

McClure’s civic and bar involvement is extensive and long-running: she is a co-founder of the “Attorneys Serving the Community” initiative (active since 1991), a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, and a member of the Junior League of Dallas, alongside her multi-term Dallas Bar Association Family Law Section directorship and her earlier State Bar Grievance Committee service. The firm’s team also supports the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and participates in charitable projects providing basic necessities to economically challenged Dallas families, per the firm’s own description.

Recognition

The strongest credential is the TBLS board certification, held since 1995 — tested and peer-evaluated, and now three decades sustained. Her AV Preeminent and AV/Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished/Notable ratings are peer-reviewed. Her run of 20 consecutive years as a Texas Super Lawyer (as of 2023, per the firm) is also a peer-nomination-based recognition. By contrast, her repeated D Magazine “Best Lawyers in Dallas” placements (2003–2017, 2019) are directory-style rankings rather than a tested certification — a real and sustained signal of standing, but a different tier of credential than the TBLS certification or the State Bar Grievance Committee service itself.

Texas Legal Backdrop

The same structural rules apply to any Texas family law matter, presented as general information and not legal advice. Texas requires six months’ domicile in the state and 90 days in the filing county before a divorce petition can be filed (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.301), and imposes a mandatory 60-day waiting period after filing before a divorce can be finalized, with a family-violence exception (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.702). Texas’s community property system presumes property and debt acquired during the marriage belongs to both spouses, subject to a “just and right” division — directly relevant to McClure’s tax-informed, high-asset property division practice, since separating true separate property (owned before marriage, or received by gift or inheritance) from community property often requires careful tracing, particularly for “mixed-character” assets that combine both (Tex. Fam. Code §§ 3.002–3.003). Divorce may proceed on the no-fault ground of insupportability (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.001). Custody is decided under a best-interest-of-the-child standard (Tex. Fam. Code ch. 153), and child support follows statutory guideline percentages (Tex. Fam. Code § 154.125).

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

McClure Law Group’s differentiator is a genuinely unusual combination: a tax-law background applied directly to complex property division, three decades of sustained TBLS certification, and — perhaps most distinctively — firsthand experience sitting on the body that disciplines Texas attorneys, giving McClure direct insight into how the profession evaluates its own conduct. For a high-net-worth or high-profile client whose divorce involves genuinely complex property and tax questions, that combination is a meaningful differentiator.

The honest trade-off is the same one that applies to any founder-centered boutique: the publicly available record centers heavily on McClure herself rather than documenting a deep bench of additional named, board-certified partners, so continuity and capacity during scheduling conflicts are worth asking about directly, especially for a case likely to require sustained litigation over many months. Clients should also confirm current staffing directly, since firm rosters at boutique practices can change.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in August 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own published website (mcclure-lawgroup.com), including its attorney biography, testimonials, and contact pages. Secondary sources: Super Lawyers, D Magazine, and Justia’s attorney directory. The firm did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. All credentials and claims are attributed to their sources; the specific CEO premarital-agreement case result is attributed to the firm’s own reporting and was not independently verified against court records. Past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. This article is general information, not legal advice.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

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