Sadie Harrison-Fincher

Associate

Ms. Harrison-Fincher is a graduate of Texas Tech Law School, cum laude, where she served as a Comment Editor on its law review. Her law school honors include being a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Malpractice and Ethics, and the Cali Award for Excellence in Law and Psychiatry. After law school she served as a law clerk to Honorable Terrie Livingston, Justice, Second District Court of Appeals from 2003-2004.

In 2007, 2009 and 2010, Sadie was recognized as a “Rising Star” in Business/Corporate Law in the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star Editions published by Thompson Reuters. Since 2006, Sadie has been regularly recognized as a Top Attorney in Fort Worth in both Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions and Administrative Law by Fort Worth, Texas Magazine. Before law school, she managed and ran the business operations of retail stores owned by her family's business.

Practice Areas

Administrative Law

State & Federal Regulatory Law

Corporate & Business Law

Business and Corporate Planning

Business Transactions

Contract Negotiations

Mergers & Acquisitions

School Law

Private Post Secondary Education

Education

JD Texas Tech School of Law, cum laude 2003

BA Scripps College 1994

Associations

Texas Bar (2003).

Tarrant County Bar Association.

Corporate Counsel Section, Tarrant County Bar Association. Co-Chair 2011-2012

Texas Bar Foundation.

American Bar Association.

Martindale-Hubbell

Recent News & Publications

Top Attorney in Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions in the 2010 and 2011 Fort Worth, Texas Magazine Top Attorneys Editions.

Sadie Harrison-Fincher and John Allen Chalk drafted legislation and provided legislative testimony and related support for the successful passage of Texas Senate Bill 1534 signed by the Texas Governor on June 17, 2011. Texas Senate Bill 1534 amended the Texas Education Code §132.001(1) and (4).

Named a "Rising Star" for Business/ Corporate Law for 2007, 2009 and 2010. Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star edition is a Thompson-Reuters service printed in Texas Monthly.

Top Attorney in Business/ Commercial Litigation in the 2008 Fort Worth, Texas Magazine Top Attorneys Edition.

Top Attorney in Administrative Law in the 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Fort Worth, Texas Magazine Top Attorneys Editions.

Speaker, Urban Gas Drilling Symposium, Texas Wesleyan School of Law, April 17, 2009.

Speaker, Career Colleges and Schools of Texas Annual Meeting, October 2006, Texas Success Initiative Issues.

Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: Traps for Attorneys published in the January 2006 Tarrant County Bar Bulletin.

Who's Afraid of "Affiliates"? published in the June 2005 Tarrant County Bar Bulletin.

Eminent Domain Power Granted to Private Pipeline Companies: Urban Resistance.

Eminent Domain Power Granted to Private Pipeline Companies Meets with Greater Resistance From Property Owners in Urban Rather Than Rural Areaspublished in the Texas Law Review Volume 16, Fall 2009, Number 1.

City Regulation of Pipelines-An Overview of Ordinance No. 18449-022009 published in the August 2009 Fort Worth Basin Oil and Gas Magazine.

To Condemn or Not to Condemn? published in the September 2008 Fort Worth Basin Oil and Gas Magazine.