Palm Springs Divorce Attorney
T.W. Arnold attended
Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1974 earning a Commendation of Excellence for his academic performance studying behavioral psychology. In 1976 he transferred to the
University of California at Santa Barbara, graduating with Honors in his studies of American and World History in 1979. He attended the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, beginning in 1979 and was an editorial staff member of its
Environmental LawJournal
. He received his
Juris Doctorate in June, 1982. He is also currently a Master's Student at Loma Linda University in southern California studying Family Systems and Family Life Education.
In November, 1982, Arnold was admitted to the California Bar and joined his father in the desert legal practice. Ever since his interests have focused on individual lives in a multitude of family law matters. Arnold has tried criminal and numerous civil cases to jury verdict with excellent results, gaining extremely useful trial skills which family law attorneys otherwise don't accumulate. In August, 2009, Arnold took and passed the California Family Law Specialist's examination and is now eligible to apply for and become a California Certified Family Law Specialist (CFLS). In the course of almost 30 years he
has represented many hundreds of family law litigants.
Protecting rights and resolving disputes is an Arnold tradition spanning 160 years. T.W. Arnold is a fifth generation attorney. His grandfather,
Thurman Sr. taught at Yale Law School together with
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas from 1930 to 1938 and authored books on legal realism and economics that remain in print today. In 1938 President Roosevelt appointed him to be the United States Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division for the Department of Justice. In 1943, Arnold accepted a post as a Justice for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. But he did not relish being a Judge, always insisting he'd “rather be talking to a bunch of damn fools [judges] than listening to a bunch of damn fools [lawyers]". In 1946 he formed the Washington D.C. Law Firm of Arnold, Porter & Fortas, which became
Arnold & Porter when Abe Fortas was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1965. In the 1950's Arnold, Porter and Fortas was one of the few Washington law firms that stood against Senator Joseph McCarthy, representing government employees and private citizens who were prosecuted as alleged communists,
pro bono.
The Arnold tradition is one of commitment and ethics. Arnold is a student of mindfulness practices which provide remarkable tools for managing the litigation lives of clients, and defusing high conflict divorces. He is one of a small but growing community of awakened lawyers. He is presently being personally trained by nationally recognized divorce peacemaker Forrest 'Woody' Mosten.
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