Veronica C. Law

Special Counsel

  • Veronica C. Law
  • Phone: +1 817 704 1014

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    300 Throckmorton Street, Suite 1650
    Fort Worth, TX 76102-2935
    USA

Veronica C. Law focuses her practice on complex commercial real estate transactions and financial institution representation. With more than 20 years’ experience handling an array of transactional work for private businesses, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals, Ms. Law represents clients in matters involving real estate, finance and other commercial transactions. Her real estate work encompasses acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing and development. She represents office condominium developers and has experience in retail, multifamily, industrial and warehouse.

Ms. Law’s deep business perspective derives from having served as General Counsel of a B2B provider of wholesale products to the auto and RV industry; in-house counsel at an insurance syndicate; and consultant to the Real Estate Department at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Her industry focus is Banking and Finance and Construction and Engineering; additional industries include energy, education and retail/consumer.

Ms. Law’s community is a huge part of her life, and she devotes much of her time outside work to various Fort Worth nonprofit, community-building, and charitable endeavors, including Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for Fort Worth Sister Cities International, President of the Board of Directors for Leadership Fort Worth, member of the Advisory Committee for Tarrant County District 9 for the Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE), on the Board of Directors of the AIDS Outreach Center, and the Board of Governors of The Fort Worth Club.

Ms. Law has been recognized by both her community and within the legal profession. Some of her more notable honors include having been elected to Tarrant County College’s Board of Trustees, representing District 7; being selected as one of Fort Worth’s 400 Most Influential People by Fort Worth Magazine for 2022 through 2024; and having been selected as one of Fort Worth’s 500 Most Influential People by Fort Worth Magazine for 2025 – one of only 20 attorneys included. 

Ms. Law graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Business Emphasis, magna cum laude, and earned her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law. 

Admissions

  • Texas
  • Colorado

Education

  • University of Colorado School of Law, J.D.
  • University of Colorado Boulder, B.S., Economics

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Special Counsel, 2025-present
  • Brackett & Ellis P.C.
    - Attorney, Equity Shareholder, and Director, 2014-2025
  • Vehicle Administrative Services, Ltd.
    - Executive Vice-President and General Counsel, 2013-2014
  • Decker, Jones, McMackin, McClane, Hall & Bates, P.C.
    - Attorney and Equity Shareholder, 2005-2013
  • McDonald Sanders, P.C.
    - Associate, 2001-2005
  • Voyager Insurance Companies
    - Staff Attorney, 1997-2001
  • Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
    - Consultant – Real Estate Department, 1995-1997

Professional Activities

  • State Bar of Texas

  • Colorado Bar Association

  • Tarrant County Bar Association
  • Real Estate Council of Greater Fort Worth

  • CREW Fort Worth

Honors and Awards

  • Fort Worth’s 500 Most Influential People by Fort Worth Magazine, 2025
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2024

  • Fort Worth’s 400 Most Influential People, Fort Worth Magazine, 2022, 2023 and 2024

  • Top Attorneys, Fort Worth Magazine, 2006-2024

  • Distinguished® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

  • Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2006, 2009

  • 40 Under Forty, Fort Worth Business Press, 2006

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Volunteer Child Advocate, CASA of Tarrant County, 2020-2022
  • Board of Governors, The Fort Worth Club
  • Board of Directors, AIDS Outreach Center
  • Advisory Committee for Tarrant County District 9 for the Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE)
  • President, Board of Directors, Leadership Fort Worth
  • Chair, Board of Directors, Fort Worth Sister Cities International
  • Elected to Tarrant County College Board of Trustees, representing District 7

Selected Publications

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • “What Does ‘As-is’ Mean in a Commercial Real Estate Lease?” (TREC approved, 2023 and 2024)

  • “Loan Documents & What They Mean in Commercial Real Estate Secured Loans,” Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar, September 2022

  • “Top Ten Important Commercial Real Estate Lease Terms for MBA Leases,” Tarrant County Bar Association Real Estate Section, 2021