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♦️Business Law ♦️Construction Law ♦️ Legal Estate Planning♦️ Scroll down for further descriptions of each practice area.
• Business Law
• Business Disputes and Litigation
• Construction Law
• Governmental Matters
• Estate Planning, Successions and Wills
PRACTICE AREA DESCRIPTIONS
• Business Law: A contract is the law between the parties, and its importance cannot be understated. Pinnacle Law can assist you with preparing and negotiating your company’s important contracts, to ensure your interests are protected. Pinnacle Law frequently serves as outside General Counsel for businesses who desire an attorney they can count on regularly to handle all of their legal issues, without the added fixed cost of employing in-house counsel. Pinnacle Law can also advise you on matters of legal compliance, handle all aspects of the formation of your new business or the legal modification of your existing business, assist with corporate governance issues, assist with the development of policies and procedures for your business, advise you on matters regarding employment contracts, agreements not to compete and similar issues, advise on legal issues arising out of the COVID19 Pandemic, and advise on business succession planning, among many other business legal issues.
• Business Disputes and Litigation: When business dealings go south, Pinnacle Law takes a proactive approach and gets involved in the very early stages. The goal is to reduce litigation risk and resolve the matter with the bottom line in mind. Pinnacle Law can mediate, arbitrate or negotiate a resolution to your business dispute. When litigation is inevitable, Pinnacle Law aggressively protects your legal interests with keen strategy, excellent legal analysis, and quick thinking in the courtroom, all guided by an experienced and savvy litigator. Tina has represented businesses as both plaintiff and defendant in litigation over contract disputes, business torts, unfair trade practice claims, antitrust claims, agreements not to compete, and product liability disputes, among other matters, in both two-party and multi-party litigation.
• Construction Law: Tina has a particular depth and breadth of experience in the field of construction law which has made her the go-to attorney for
construction industry executives seeking legal counsel at the top of their game. Delay Claims, Acceleration Claims, Change Order disputes, Critical Path issues, Liquidated Damage disputes, Scope of Work Disputes, Standard of Care, Contractor, Owner, Designer and PM obligations -- these are just a few of the types of construction issues she has handled. She has represented Contractors, Subcontractors, Architects, Engineers, Project Managers and Owners (both public and private). She has drafted public bid documents and litigated public bid disputes. She has negotiated and drafted numerous construction contracts. The standard forms do not adequately protect your interests.
• Governmental Matters: Pinnacle Law has broad experience representing governmental entities in matters ranging from governance to mission fulfillment to dispute resolution. She has drafted cooperative endeavor agreements. She has handled numerous public construction project disputes. She has advised governing Boards on matters of legal compliance, ethics and best management practices.
• Estate Planning, Successions and Wills: The preparation of an Estate Plan represents the business of being a person in today’s world. Pinnacle Law can advise you in the preparation of your estate plan, including your will, trust and related documents. When the time comes, Pinnacle Law can handle your succession. If your or a loved one’s succession is disputed, Pinnacle Law can ease your burden and advise and handle any succession-related litigation which may arise. MEET TINA CRAWFORD WHITE of Pinnacle Law, LLC
After over 25 years serving her clients as their attorney and five years before that as their CPA, Tina’s clients consider her their Trusted Advisor. Yes, they know she is an excellent business litigator. Yes, they rely upon her to take First Chair in the litigation of their business disputes (involving amounts from thousands to millions, and all levels in between). But her biggest successes are achieved when that Chair is empty, and those disputes are resolved before they ever reach the courtroom. She understands how important and wise early dispute resolution is to businesses. She understands what her clients need, and her vast experience coupled with her ingenuity, intelligence, and drive have equipped her with the ability to deliver. She solves legal matters from the vantage point of the CEO. Before opening her own law firm, Pinnacle Law, LLC, in 2020 (before COVID19), Tina spent most of her 25 years practicing law with the large downtown New Orleans full-service law firm of Gordon Arata. While there, she developed into an outstanding commercial litigator, construction counsel, contract preparer and negotiator, and general business attorney. Prior to becoming an attorney, she practiced public accounting for five years with the international CPA firm of Ernst & Young. At Gordon Arata, she achieved the rank of Partner early, and—building on her prior depth of experience as a CPA—proceeded to build a successful business legal practice. Tina is a local girl. She was born and raised in Slidell, Louisiana. She moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University on an academic scholarship, graduating with honors with a degree in Accounting in 1986. She remained in New Orleans while working as a CPA at Ernst & Young, but after five years could no longer resist her desire to become an attorney. She was (and is) adept at helping people solve problems. She is a “fixer,” and knew she could better use her skills to help her clients as an attorney. In the middle of Busy Season as a CPA, she sat for the LSAT, and earned an academic scholarship to Tulane University School of Law. She graduated near the top of her class, earning Law Review and Order of the Coif, in 1994. Her hard work paid off with the reward of a coveted law clerk position with the Louisiana Supreme Court, clerking for Justice Walter Marcus. She then began her career at Gordon Arata, where she remained for most of the next 25 years. She moved back to Slidell in 2003 and has lived there ever since. She is the very proud mom of two girls, Bella and Olivia, and says that “being their Mama is the most important job she has ever had.”
At the beginning of 2020, Tina decided the time was ripe to start her own firm. She opened Pinnacle Law, LLC, and continued to serve her business clients (all of whom followed her to her new firm). While continuing to serve clients in New Orleans, she also serves clients throughout the Northshore (including her hometown of Slidell, Covington and Mandeville), in Baton Rouge, Hammond and other areas throughout the State of Louisiana. At Pinnacle Law, she also expanded the legal practice she had developed in the areas of estate planning, successions, and wills. COMMUNITY SERVICE & LEADERSHIP
Tina believes in giving back. She is dedicated to public service, both in the community and in the Legal Bar. She currently serves on the Pastoral Advisory Council of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Slidell (OLL), her parish church. Before that, she served on the OLL Finance Council and was on the OLL Rebuilding Finance Council following the complete destruction of the school and church by Hurricane Katrina. She served as Chair of the Young Leadership Council’s (YLC) Neighborhood Renaissance Partnership Committee, which was dedicated to improving the quality of neighborhoods in the New Orleans area. During her watch, that committee renovated several homes under the Rebuilding Together (formerly Christmas in October) program. During her tenure, the YLC honored Tina with its Volunteer of the Year Award. Tina has volunteered considerable time to the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Louisiana Bar Foundation, serving in Leadership positions in both. Tina is a current and inaugural Board Member of the Steel Mimosas, dedicated to supporting local non-profits. She is also a current and inaugural Board Member of the East St. Tammany Business Alliance, whose mission is to promote and support the growth and development of local businesses. She volunteers her time to Habitat for Humanity, and has proudly worked on the Women’s Build as a Rosie on Representative Mary DuBuisson’s Rockin’ Rosie Team. CONTACT INFORMATION
Tina Crawford White at Pinnacle Law, LLC can be reached by email at [email protected] and by phone at 504.208.8191. Consultations are by appointment.
