Justin Pruitt

Bar Admissions

• State Bar of Texas

Memberships & Associations

• Texas State Bar Association
• Texas City Attorneys Association
• Houston Bar Association

Education

• Doctor of Jurisprudence

Texas A&M University School of Law, 2013

• Master of Public Administration – Economic Development, Summa Cum Laude

Texas Tech University, 2002

Professional Experience

• Olson & Olson, LLP | Houston, Texas | 2023 – present | Partner
• Olson & Olson, LLP | Houston, Texas | 2019 – 2022 | Attorney
• City of Lubbock | Lubbock, Texas | 2018 – 2019 | Business Development Director
• City of Lubbock | Lubbock, Texas | 2015 – 2018 | Assistant City Attorney
• FWT, LLC | Kennedale, Texas | 2014 – 2015 | Contracts Attorney/Chief In-House Counsel
• Orasi Municipal Development | Fort Worth, Texas | 2011 – 2013 | Economic Dev. Analyst

Concentration

Justin offers a wealth of experience to our municipal clients with council matters, ordinances, and resolutions. He has the knowledge and experience to guide our clients with the appropriate utilization of economic development tools to encourage progress, stabilize or increase the tax base, generate employment, and regulate development. Justin will help our clients with all aspects of tax abatement, tax increment financing, free port exemptions, foreign trade zones, hotel occupancy taxes, economic development corporations, and sales taxes. He will help with economic development grants and incentives under Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code, public improvement districts, tax increment reinvestment zones, local government corporations, and municipal management districts. 

Articles, Publications & Presentations

• The Shaky Ground of Immunity, presented at Olson & Olson, LLP’s 18th Annual Local Government Seminar, January 2022, Stafford, Texas
• ESDs and Sales Tax During COVID-19, presented at Olson & Olson, LLP’s 17th Annual Local Government Seminar, January 2021, Stafford, Texas
• EDC 101: What Is It?, presented at Olson & Olson, LLP’s 16th Annual Local Government Seminar, January 2020, Stafford, Texas

Cases