A vehicle-odor elimination startup company has brought on a new top lawyer.

NuVinAir announced Kathryn Shilling as the Dallas-based company's new general counsel. In her new role, Shilling is responsible for providing legal expertise on company strategies and their implementation, negotiating contracts and overseeing complex business transactions and outside counsel, according to a statement announcing her hire.

Prior to joining NuVinAir, Shilling founded Shilling Law Group, where she served as outside GC to several businesses throughout Texas and Oklahoma in both trial and appellate work. Her prior appellate-work experience includes a clerkship with the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas and a role as staff attorney for the state Second District Court of Appeals in Fort Worth.