Lisa was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1995 after receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1991 and her Juris Doctorate Degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1994.

Lisa's legal experience includes serving as a Bexar County Assistant Criminal District Attorney and as an attorney for Escamilla & Poneck, Inc. prior to joining the Firm. She manages the San Antonio Office, a nice compliment to our Dallas-based Firm, further enabling West & Associates, L.L.P. to serve our clients in the more southern region of the state.

Her practice areas over the years has consisted of corporate formation and operation, criminal law, general civil litigation, labor and employment, public finance, and school law. Today, Lisa’s primary focus areas are corporate operations, public finance and school law concentrating heavily on the financing and development of municipal and quasi-municipal corporations as Bond Counsel and Underwriters’ Counsel.

Lisa is admitted to practice law before all courts of the state of Texas, the United States District Court of the Western District, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is a member of the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, National Association of Bond Lawyers, Federal Bar Association, San Antonio Bar Association, San Antonio Black Lawyers Association and the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association.

Lisa is an active participant in her church and her community serving on the Greater San Antonio YMCA Board of Directors and as leader among her classmates of Leadership San Antonio. Lisa is very active in the legal community serving on a number of organizational boards to include the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation Fellows.  Lisa recently served as a Commissioner on the San Antonio Housing Authority Board of Commissioners.