Harriet Tabb is well known for her work in retail and mixed-use real estate development. Harriet also performs substantial work in economic development for a major Texas city. Her most recent work in economic development has focused on affordable housing, especially through public facility corporations.
Harriet’s work creates enormous value for her clients. Many developers prefer to hire her early in a project so that she can provide smart and proactive counsel. Her negotiations result in clearly-written leases and other agreements that both protect her client and help make the landlord and tenant relationship run smoothly. Her planning and drafting can save money. She saved one client more than $100,000 in late-delivery fees based on her well-written force majeure clause (more believable after the pandemic than before it) and another client much more than that by recommending a specific way to structure loan documentation.
Harriet has focused her other efforts on teaching and training the next generation of lawyers, both speaking at many CLE presentations and teaching “Real Estate Transactions” at Southern Methodist University (SMU) for 3 years.