Lisa has extensive experience on providing legal services to cities, economic development corporations, affordable housing development corporations, and special districts. Lisa’s practice areas include development agreements using tax increment subsidies, bond funds, tax abatements, federal grant funds, and tax credits, as well as procurement, intellectual property, contracts, leases, ordinances, conflicts of interest, open meetings, and board management. Lisa has represented cities and other political subdivisions on administrative law, investigations, compliance, environmental, data privacy and security, records retention, law enforcement, emergency response, and election law matters.
Prior to joining Messer Fort, Lisa served as Section Chief, Economic and Community Development Section of the General Counsel Division, City of Dallas, an adjunct for the Community Development and Entrepreneurship Law Clinics of the Texas A&M University School of Law, and corporate counsel for a publicly traded company, as well as advised cities and other political subdivisions across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Lisa has presented and written articles on various topics, such as affordable housing, open records, data privacy, elections, and small business matters. During law school, Lisa interned for the Charlotte City Attorney’s Office, the North Carolina State Board of Elections, and the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. Prior to law school, Lisa worked as an assistant campaign manager on a congressional campaign, an assistant committee clerk for the Texas House Committee on Jurisprudence, and an elections coordinator with the Travis County Clerk.