LISA K. FOX
Attorney and Counselor
Dallas
Phone: 214-954-9540
Email:
lfox@bd-law.com

CLIENT SERVICE PHILOSOPHY

Lisa K. Fox is well-equipped to support entrepreneurs. She knows first-hand what business ownership entails, having been responsible for her own legal practice prior to joining the Firm, as well as having many years of experience creating, designing and forming new businesses.

Fox, who has more than 15 years of experience in working directly with entrepreneurs, enjoys helping her clients with a wide variety of services. She routinely assists her clients with issues related to business structure and governance, tax structure, employment issues, and asset protection.

"I find working with entrepreneurs very stimulating. I share their passion for what they do and for their achievement of success.”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Lisa Fox joined Bellinger & DeWolf, LLP in July of 2004 after having her own legal practice. What appealed to her most about joining the Firm was collaborating with her colleagues, each having brought something different to the table, to achieve a more powerful result.

Fox has seven years of strategic business planning and development experience, seven years of finance, banking and investment experience, and five years of estate, investment, retirement, risk management, financial and tax planning experience.

Fox previously worked as a financial planner for Merrill Lynch in downtown Dallas. Prior to Merrill Lynch, as Director of Product and Service Development for Thomson, Fox was responsible for making existing businesses profitable and for researching, designing, planning for and creating new product and service-based businesses.

She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Texas. She also holds Series 7 and Series 66 securities licenses.

PRACTICE AREAS

General Business and Corporate Law – Representation and counseling of business owners regarding organizational structure and governance, contracts, stock and option plans, offer and sale of restricted securities, employee benefits, retirement plans, asset and equity sales and other general business matters for emerging, newly-formed, restructuring or existing organizations.

Banking - Representation of lenders in structuring asset and equity-based financing vehicles and other commercial transactions.

Estate Planning – Representation and counseling of individuals, families (traditional and non-traditional), and business owners regarding tax containment and asset protection.

COURT ADMISSIONS

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1990

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, German/International Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1984
Attended and studied Finance at Northwestern University, 1985-1987
Juris Doctor, Rinn Scholar, DePaul University College of Law, 1990
Financial Manager Certification, Donald T. Regan School of Advanced Financial Management at Princeton, 2001
Certificate in Financial Planning, University of North Texas, 2001
Wealth Management Advisor Certification, Donald T. Regan School of Advanced Financial Management at Princeton, 2002

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

State Bar of Texas, Admitted to practice in 1990
Dallas Bar Foundation, Fellow
Dallas Bar Association: LegalLine, Co-Chair, Community Involvement Committee, vice-chair; Admissions & Membership, past Chair
Probate & Estates, Tax Sections Dallas Bar Association, member
Dallas Women Lawyers Association, past Vice President,
Dallas Estate Planning Council, member

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Dallas Bar Association Home Project Benefiting Habitat for Humanity; past Co-Chair, volunteer and fund-raiser
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Annual Fund-Raiser, steering committee member
North Texas Food Bank, volunteer
Dallas 40 for Civic Awareness, member
Attorneys Serving the Community (benefiting I Have a Dream Foundation, Special Care and Career Services, Our Friends’ Place, Gilda’s Club) - Minutes Committee, past Co-Chair; Corporate Fund-Raising Committee, past Co-Chair; Social Committee, past-Co-Chair; Charity Selection Committee, past member

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

When she isn’t serving her clients or the firm, Fox enjoys building houses for Habitat for Humanity, reading books, tasting wine and cooking.

Not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization