Small Business Development with Phillip Yates

Phillip J. Yates is an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Texas. He is currently the managing partner at the Law Office of Yates & Associates, where he focuses on bankruptcy, commercial litigation and corporate law. Prior to attending law school at Texas Southern University – Thurgood Marshall School of Law, he received both his bachelor and master's degree in business administration from Stephen F. Austin State University. Phillip is a proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., PHA Masonic Lodge True Square #108, 100 Black Men Metropolitan of Houston Chapter, Inc., League of Women Voters of the Houston Area – Rising Star, and a former NCAA Division-I basketball player. He's also a graduate of Leadership Houston - Class XXXIII, volunteer with the Alief I.S.D Leadership Advisory Council, mentor at Chinquapin Preparatory, and serves on the Stephen F. Austin State University General Business Advisory Board. Phillip is a long-standing consultant at the Houston Area Urban League, where he is credited with helping to implement the economic development and entrepreneurship program, Small Business Development University. Since 2011, this program has helped over several thousand minority entrepreneurs and start-up businesses, create jobs, grow and scale their businesses to capacity to operate at a sustainable level. Phillip now has the pleasure of serving on the Board for Lone Star Justice Alliance, Impact Hub Houston, League of Women Voters – Houston (Vice President of Study and Advocacy), and the 100 Black Men Metropolitan Houston (General Counsel), while maintaining his role as a consultant at the Houston Area Urban League, a local nonprofit organization in the Greater Houston Area.