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Prior
to establishment of Pauline E. Higgins
& Associates, Ms. Higgins’,
experience includes work as an attorney
for Bracewell & Patterson, Tax Counsel
for Exxon Corporation, Chief of Staff
and General Counsel for United States
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and
Associate General Counsel, Vice President,
and Assistant Corporate Secretary for
J.P. Morgan Chase; Partner & Chief
Diversity Officer for Thompson & Knight
LLP; Senior Vice President, General Counsel
& Corporate Secretary and Chief Administrative
Officer for Metropolitan Transit Authority
of Harris County, Houston, Texas; Partner
& Chief Diversity officer for Lam,
Lyn & Philip, P.C., including General
Corporate, Corporate Trustee's Counsel,
Breach of Contract, Structure Finance
& Asset-Backed Securities, Commercial
Litigation, and Breach of Contract and
Creditor's Rights.
As a corporate executive, attorney, and
civic leader, Ms. Higgins has devoted
her career to mentoring and creating opportunities
for women and minority lawyers. |
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Ms.
Higgins is known for her work with the
Minority Opportunities in the Legal Profession
Program ("MOLP") and has been
locally and nationally featured and recognized
for her indelible, creative, and restructuring
work with MOLP for the Houston Bar Association
where she serves numerous years as Chair,
member, and mentor. Additionally, Ms.
Higgins served as President of the Association
of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, the
State Bar of Texas Board of Directors,
the State Bar of Texas Diversity Task
Force, and Texas Minority Counsel Program’s
Steering Committee and Racial Diversity
In the Profession of The State Bar of
Texas. She has been recognized by The
Texas Lawyer as one of the Best 50 In-House
Counsel, Texas Lawyer’s Extraordinary
Women in the Law, the Sarah T. Hughes
Award from the State Bar of Texas’,
the Texas Executive Women On the Move
Award, and the Minority Corporate Counsel
Association Rainbowmaker Award, and Ms.
Higgins, among other awards and recognitions,
has been inducted into the American Law
Institute. |
