Kristi N. Elsom is an attorney and shareholder with FizerBeck, practicing estate planning, taxation and probate law. She is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC).

Kristi is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association, College of State Bar of Texas, Texas Academy of Probate and Trust Lawyers, Houston Estate and Business Council, and Houston Estate and Financial Forum and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the Specialty of Trusts and Estates for 2010. She enjoys addressing professional conferences and social meetings, averaging three presentations a year. Kristi’s article "The Yin and Yang of Disclaimers," published in the May/June 2002 issue of Probate and Property, won the 2002 Excellence in Writing Award for the Best Overall Article-Probate and Trust.

Having served on numerous charitable boards and executive committees in the past, Kristi is currently serving on the Greater Houston Community Foundation Professional Advisors Council, the F. Marie Hall Scholarship Committee of the Permian Basin Area Foundation. She is also a sustainer of the Junior League of Houston and a member of South Main Baptist Church.

Kristi attended Southern Methodist University where she received her B.B.A., Magna Cum Laude in 1979 and her J.D. in 1983. Joining FizerBeck in January 2002, previously Kristi was an attorney and shareholder with Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc. in Midland, Texas.