5 Benefits to Prioritizing Partnerships with Women- and Minority-Owned Businesses

PARTNER

Tina Solis is a Partner and Practice Leader in the Financial Institutions & Banking Disputes group at Nixon Peabody. One of Tina’s passions and niche skills is counseling partners and law firms on the terms and obligations surrounding a partner or group departure from a firm. The Lawt places supreme importance on protecting partners from fiduciary issues. Tina’s expertise and counseling mitigate the risk to partners and the impact to their clients.

MARKETING & DESIGN

After starting technology company Liquid Compass straight out of college (which she sold in 2004), Kristy launched Graphik Creative in order to get back to the fundamentals of what she loves: Being creative. Launching, growing and maintaining brands. Oh, and of course traveling around the world.

Selected as one of eight “Empowered Women” across the US by Salon Magazine and nominated as one of the Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Business Women of the Year (2014), Kristy is the type who truly gets involved with each client’s business as though it were her own. “When you grow, we grow,” she says. And it’s true – some of Graphik’s largest clients began with them when they were nothing more than a potential name and a few ideas scribbled on a napkin. Several years later, these same clients are still with Graphik… and still growing. Ten years later, the client roster is quite expansive – and impressive – including names like Angry Birds, Internet Brands, Accessory Geeks, Active Fashion Group (Soybu), First Wind, EnviroTech and more.

Under the Graphik Creative umbrella, she also launched six printing companies, allowing customers in various industries to affordably match their website designs with templated business collateral. She is always open to new opportunities and is known for being…honest on her opinion of design.

Outside Counsel

Nick is an accomplished and driven civil trial attorney with extensive experience in successfully resolving complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts. He has won trials, arbitration awards, and/or appeals in eight different states. He served as lead counsel in over 200 cases involving claims of breach of contract, fraud, misappropriation, bad faith, unjust enrichment, professional malpractice, and/or negligence with dollar amounts in dispute ranging from twenty thousand to twenty million.

“The team at The Lawt is a pleasure to work with and displays the highest level of regard for its clients, employees, and service providers. I appreciate that if it can, The Lawt tries to find a solution that works for all involved, but it will not sacrifice its principals just to attempt to rid itself of a potential problem. Cheers to a company that always tries to do the right thing and makes it so easy to represent.”