Allison Elko Joins Bell Nunnally as Senior Counsel

Top Quote Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP has added Allison L. Elko as Senior Counsel. End Quote
  • Dallas, TX (1888PressRelease) February 04, 2016 - Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP recently added Allison L. Elko as Senior Counsel. Elko joins the firm from the Dallas office of Fair & Watts, P.C. where she served as special underwriting counsel to Hexter-Fair First American Title Company, LLC.

    "Allison's wealth of experience bolsters our thriving real estate practice," said James Skochdopole, managing partner of Bell Nunnally.

    At Fair & Watts and in her role as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel within the legal department for its predecessor company, Hexter-Fair Title Company, Elko provided a team of commercial real estate escrow officers with a wide-array of legal support - including underwriting guidance and title issuance assistance. In addition, she worked closely with commercial real estate clients on a wide variety of matters, including industrial warehouse leasing and build-to-suit projects.

    Dual-licensed in Texas and Arkansas, Elko's experience also includes time spent as Senior Counsel for telecommunications provider Windstream Corporation (NASDAQ: WIN), and in the real estate department of Hughes Luce LLP (now K&L Gates).

    Active in the community, Elko is a member of the Dallas Bar Association's "Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program" and a volunteer and past board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star - North Texas (Eastern). Notably, she has twice been named Dallas' "Big Sister of the Year" (2004, 2002).

    Elko is a past panelist for the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), speaking at its annual meetings in 2007 and 2008, and a previous "Texas Rising Star," featured in Texas Monthly magazine.

    Elko is a graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law (J.D., 1998) and the University of Arkansas (B.A., 1993).

    About Bell Nunnally& Martin LLP
    With more than 50 attorneys and three decades of doing business, Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP is among the most respected business law firms in Texas, one of the 25 largest in North Texas and one of the state's fastest-growing firms. The depth of the firm's knowledge and breadth of its expertise sets Bell Nunnally apart. The firm, a member of the global law firm network Legalink, provides a full range of services, including litigation, appellate law, commercial finance, corporate and securities, creditors' rights, bankruptcy, intellectual property, labor and employment, immigration, real estate, entertainment, mergers and acquisitions, estate planning, tax and white collar criminal defense. Bell Nunnally is regularly singled out as a "Go-To" firm by America's largest companies each year in Corporate Counsel magazine.

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