Thomas J. Daley

Lead Litigation Attorney
Thomas J. Daley
Board-Certified Family Law Attorney · KoonsFuller, P.C.
“I will protect that which matters most to you: your wealth, your relationships with your children, and your reputation.”
225+
Clients Served
18 Years
of Texas Experience
Thomas J. Daley — Aggressive Advocacy for People Who Build Things
Thomas J. Daley represents entrepreneurs and business owners in the divorce, custody, and property-division matters that threaten everything they’ve built. Board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, he handles the cases other lawyers find too complicated — closely held businesses, sophisticated financial structures, traced and commingled assets, and high-conflict parenting disputes where the stakes are measured in both children and capital.
His clients tend to be people who know what they want. They run fast-growing companies, they make decisions for a living, and they have neither the time nor the patience for a lawyer who needs hand-holding or who treats litigation as an open-ended billing exercise. They want someone who will out-work and out-prepare the other side, build a record that wins, and tell them the truth about where they stand. That is the representation Tom delivers.
The Out-Prepared Advantage
Cases are won before trial — in the discovery that surfaces the document opposing counsel hoped no one would read, in the financial analysis that turns a vague suspicion into a provable pattern, and in the preparation that lets you walk into the courtroom already knowing how the day will end. Tom’s litigation style is strategic and evidence-driven. He builds compelling, well-documented records and positions each case for a decisive outcome, whether that comes at trial or through a resolution negotiated from a position of unmistakable strength.
For business owners, that often means the hardest part of the case is the money: tracing separate property through years of transactions, valuing a company whose worth the other side wants to minimize or inflate, untangling personal and business finances, and structuring a property division that holds up long after the decree is signed. This is where most family law practices reach their limit. It is where Tom is just getting started.
Where Law, Finance, and Technology Meet
Before he practiced law, Tom spent decades building software and financial technology, and he holds numerous patents related to electronic trading algorithms. He understands balance sheets, cap tables, and cash flows because he has lived in that world — and he understands the businesses his clients run because he has built and sold his own.
That background reshapes what is possible in a case. Tom designs and deploys technology to analyze financial evidence at a scale and speed that manual review cannot match — parsing thousands of pages of bank records, reconstructing the money trail across institutions, and surfacing patterns that would otherwise stay buried. He is the founder of JDBOT.US, a platform developing AI-powered tools that bring efficiency and accuracy to legal work for attorneys and their clients.
But technology is a tool, not a substitute for judgment. Tom uses AI to accelerate cases — never to outsource the decisions that matter. Every strategic call, every theory of the case, every word that goes in front of a judge runs through eighteen years of trial experience and the seasoned instinct that no machine can replicate. He does not abdicate judgment to any machine — or, for that matter, to anyone else. Clients get the speed of modern technology and the discipline of a lawyer who owns every decision in their case.
Discretion & Results
Discretion is part of the representation. Tom does not publicize client matters or results. For the people he represents, protecting their privacy and reputation often matters as much as the outcome itself — and that confidence is extended without exception. Subject to our commitment to discretion, here are some recent results:
- Won judgment of $80,000 for attorney’s fees for client sued frivolously (2026)
- Obtained 80% asset division favoring our client in an out of court settlement (2026)
- Out of court property division providing client with generational wealth (2026)
- Preserved client’s trading, investment, and real estate portfolio in out of court settlement of property division (2026)
- Prevailed on appeal on behalf of parent trying to collect over $75,000 in unpaid child support (2026)
- Preserved 100%, undiluted enterprise ownership for entrepreneur client in out of court settlement (2025)
- Sent non-paying spouse to jail for non-payment of fees (2025)
- Protected client’s trust interests from divorce settlement, preserving $$$$ in wealth (2024)
Practice Focus
- High-Asset Divorce
- Property Tracing, Valuation, and Creative Division
- Entrepreneur Divorce
- Pre- and Post-Marital Agreements
- Out-of-Court Resolution
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Enforcing Court Orders
- International Custody & Divorce
- Multinational Asset Tracing and Division
Qualifications and Involvement
Education
- J.D., Texas A&M University School of Law (2009)
- B.A. - Economics, Hendrix College, Conway, AR (1986)
Credentials
- Board Certified in Family Law — Texas Board of Legal Specialization (since 2021)
- Credentialed Mediator — Texas Mediator Credentialing Association (since 2012)
- AI Agents for Business Expert — University of Texas McCombs School of Business (since 2026)
- Google AI Essentials — Coursera (since 2025)
Publications & Presentations
- Estate Planning in Texas: What You Need to Know, 2nd Ed.
- Virtual Espionage: The Impact of Emerging Technology on Your Case
- Common Mistakes in the Courtroom and How to Avoid Them
- Guest Lecturer on AI
- AI in the Practice of Law
- Revolutionizing Family Law with AI
- Perfecting Your Prompt
- AI, Technology and the Law
- Revolutionizing Family Law: AI, Tech & Justice
- AI and the Practice of Law
- AI and the Practice of Law
- AI for Attorneys
- AI Evidence in Texas Litigation
- Jury Selection and Voir Dire
- AI for Smaller Firms, Advanced AI Techniques
- AI For Attorneys
- AI for Attorneys
- AI for Lawyers, SMU Edition
- Becoming the Go-To Lawyer in Your Field
- The Limits of Familiarity
- Navigating Divorce, Custody, and the Rise of AI Lawyers – with Tom Daley & Neda Garrett
- US Patent: System and Method for Controlling the Disclosure of a Trading Order (US 11244365)
- US Patent: System and Method for Controlling the Disclosure of a Trading Order (US US10304097B2)
- Canadian Patent: System and Method for Controlling the Disclosure of a Trading Order (CA CA2554179C)
- Canadian Patent: System and Method for Avoiding Transaction Costs Associated with Trading Orders (CA CA2554250C)
- US Patent: System and Method for Routing a Trading Order (US US 8,738,498 B2)
- Japanese Patent: System and Method for Toriawaseru Trading Orders to Each Other (JP JP5283844B2)
- Japanese Patent: System and Method for Controlling the Disclosure of a Trading Order (JP JP5259959B2)
- Japanese Patent: System and Method for Avoiding Transaction Costs Associated with Trading Orders (JP JP4771336B2)
- Japanese Patent: System and Method for Diverting on the Basis of the Trading Order to Price (JP JP4771335B2)
- Australian Patent: System and Method for Matching Trading Orders (AU 2005208977B2)
- Australian Patent: System and Method for Routing a Trading Order (AU AU2005208979B2)
- Australian Patent: System and Method for Avoiding Transaction Costs Associated with Trading Orders (AU AU2005208981B2)
- Australian Patent: System and Method for Controlling the Disclosure of a Trading Order (AU AU2005208978B2)
- US Patent: System and Method for Routing a Trading Order According to Price (US US7835987B2)
- Australia Patent: System and Method for Routing a Trading Order According to Price (AU AU2005208980B2)
- International Patent: System and Method for Routing a Trading Order According to Price (WO 2005/072452 A3)
- Japanese Patent: System and Method for Diverting Trading Orders (JP JP2007523406A)
- US Patent: System and Method for Matching Trading Orders (US US 2005/0171890 A1)
Awards & Recognition
- Attorney Advocate of the Year — Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas (2025)
Professional Involvement
- Fellow, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists (since 2022)
- Member, Collin County Bar Association (since 2010)
- Fellow, Collin County Bench-Bar Foundation (since 2010)
- Volunteer Attorney/Donor, Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas (since 2010)
- Fellow, Curt Henderson Inns of Court (since 2022)
- Fellow, Texas Family Law Foundation (since 2014)
- Member, Texas Bar College (since 2012)
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