I believe nonprofits are the heartbeat of the community they serve and my entire legal career has been focused on serving the legal needs of nonprofits as they grow to meet the needs around them. I understand that organizational leaders often need responsive and proactive legal counsel, and that is precisely what our team strives to deliver.
I began my career out of law school working for a large nonprofit health system in the North Texas area. Soon after, I joined a firm focused almost exclusively on nonprofits in which I focused on nonprofit governance, employment, and compliance with the then new Affordable Care Act. I have continued serving nonprofits and healthcare organizations around the United States and have spoken at various national conferences on the issues of Executive Compensation, Nonprofit Governance, Healthcare Law, International Expansion and Employment Law. In 2019 I formed The Anthony Law Firm, PLLC and after 3 successful years, joined with my colleague Michele Sparkman to form Anthony & Sparkman, PLLC.
I currently live in the DFW area of Texas with my wife and three children. I serve as an elder at my local church and enjoy volunteering with SOS International.
For over fourteen years I have focused my legal practice on serving nonprofits, churches, and other faith-based organizations. I have a deeply rooted respect and admiration for the work my clients accomplish on the front lines each and every day. My mission is to provide sound legal counsel and practical solutions to help my clients fulfill each of their organizational and missional goals. I believe in excellence in all things and seek to provide this level of service for all my clients.
I graduated from Texas A&M University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication and earned my Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan School of Law, now Texas A&M School of Law, in 2007. Upon graduating from law school, I served as a law clerk for the Honorable Bob McCoy of the Second District Court of Appeals, Fort Worth and then spent eight years at a boutique law firm providing nonprofit organizations, churches and ministries with legal counsel. In 2017, I opened my solo practice and continued providing my nonprofit clients with legal services until partnering with John Anthony to open Anthony & Sparkman, PLLC in April 2022. It has been my joy and privilege to serve nonprofit organizations for the past fourteen years on a wide array of issues ranging from entity formation, corporate governance, employment law, third-party investigations, child abuse prevention, strategic planning, restructuring, mergers, dissolutions and lots more in between.
In addition to providing legal services to nonprofit organizations, I also serve alongside my husband, Curt, in his vocational ministry as a pastor, lending my clients a unique perspective in pairing the best legal practices for the operations of a faith-based organization while also understanding the practical issues that arise as you serve and minister to your community. I have four lovely and active kids who are full of life and bring a lot of joy to my husband and I. In my spare time, I love to trail run, swim, hike as many tall mountains as often as I can, read too many books at one time, and teach the Bible.
After graduating Baylor Law School, I worked for a large nonprofit organization serving in Employee Relations where I was responsible for the employee handbook, performance improvement processes, and assisting with employee training. After two years of working for the nonprofit, I joined Anthony & Sparkman as an associate attorney. I am passionate about providing sound legal counsel to churches, nonprofits, and individuals.
As a litigator, my expertise comes in seeing the legal risks that nonprofit organizations face and developing a strategy to reduce or eliminate the potential for a lawsuit. I have worked extensively conducting internal investigations for major corporations and nonprofits; protecting the interests of the organizations while making sure bad actors are appropriately disciplined. For clients facing legal action, I am adept at preparing witnesses to testify, crafting a defense strategy, managing discovery, and negotiating settlements in favor of my clients. I am excited to provide my skillset to the area of nonprofit
Though a Texas native, I have developed my legal skills in the jurisdictions of New York and California, first at litigation powerhouse Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and more recently at the trial firm Hueston Hennigan LLP. I am a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where I served as an editor for the Virginia Law Review, and attended Ouachita Baptist University for undergrad.
