While serving as outside general counsel for corporate entities, Ms. Gipson handled a wide array of corporate and commercial transactions, including organizational restructuring, private and public finance, nonprofit organization and federal tax exemption, real estate development, settlement and negotiation strategy, contracts, Form S-1 registrations of initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters.
Ms. Gipson focuses her civic activities on equitable access to quality public education and advocacy related to racial and gender equity. She served as a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and Communities in Schools Gulf South. One of the first pro bono projects Ms. Gipson worked on as a young lawyer in New York was the Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP), which helped victims of domestic violence to seek orders of protection in Family Court and engage in safety planning to help clients start new lives.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Ms. Gipson co-founded a local New Orleans law firm. Before that, she gained valuable experience as a corporate associate, working on corporate deals at a powerhouse New York City firm. In 2004, Ms. Gipson moved to New Orleans to serve as a law clerk for the Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle in the Eastern District of Louisiana of the United States District Court.