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Christina S. Dawson

Of Counsel / Boston

Overview

Christina S. Dawson is an of counsel in Nutter’s Private Client Department. She focuses her practice on estate planning for a variety of clients, ranging from relatively simple estate plans for families and individuals to more complex plans, utilizing sophisticated strategies to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Christina advises personal representatives and trustees on all aspects of probate, estate, and trust administration; including estate tax return preparation, and the appointment of guardians and conservators for minors and incapacitated individuals. She also counsels public charities and private foundations on a variety of matters, including operation, grantmaking, and tax compliance matters. Christina was accepted into the New England Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). 

Christina is dedicated to Nutter’s pro bono efforts.  She has assisted pro bono clients with estate planning, trust administration matters, and nonprofit development matters through Nutter’s pro bono collaboration with various legal aid organizations.

She has been a member of Nutter’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Committee and served as co-chair of Nutter’s Speaker Series for Diversity and Inclusion, collaborating with affinity groups from local law schools to present innovative and thought-provoking events for the community. Christina has also served as a mentor to law students.

Christina is working with a team of individuals to form 826 Dallas, which will be a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a community of support to ensure that Dallas-area youth are able to access the power and the joy of writing. Christina also previously served as the chair of the Governance Committee for Wondermore, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate children’s curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement by bringing children’s authors and illustrators into underserved Boston Public Schools for visits and writing workshops that align with the curriculum.

Christina has previously served as an associate in the Private Client Department at Nutter and as an associate in the Wealth Management Group of another mid-size Boston law firm. She has also worked as an advanced planner for a large financial institution where she educated both clients and the broader organization regarding family wealth planning strategies, including estate, trust, gift, and charitable planning techniques. Earlier in her career, she was a summer associate at a mid-size Oklahoma law firm and a data analyst at the Liberty Mutual Group.

During law school, Christina served on the Journal of Science and Technology Law and as the internal vice president of the Black Law Students Association. In addition, she was a research assistant to a Boston University School of Law Intellectual Property professor.

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Honors

Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch”, 2021
  • The National Black Lawyers, “Top 40 Under 40”, 2020

Education & Admissions

Education

Boston University School of Law, J.D.
Oklahoma State University, B.S., summa cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi

Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • Texas

Industries

In the Community

Christina is working with a team of individuals to form 826 Dallas, which will be a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a community of support to ensure that Dallas-area youth are able to access the power and the joy of writing.

Christina also previously served as the chair of the Governance Committee for Wondermore, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate children’s curiosity, creativity, and academic achievement by bringing children’s authors and illustrators into underserved Boston Public Schools for visits and writing workshops that align with the curriculum.

Noteworthy

  • The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch”, 2021
  • The National Black Lawyers, “Top 40 Under 40”, 2020
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