May 2021 Tulsa Lawyer by Tulsa County Bar Association

2021-2022 Election Profiles

A Message from the President

Kimberly K. Moore 2020-2021 TCBA President

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In this Issue

May 2021

Looking Forward

Bar News & Updates

Fostering Connections - Virtual Tropical Happy Hour

Thank You Golf Sponsors!

ONLINE VOTING

TCBA Officer Elections, 2021-2022

8AM - Monday - May 3rd , 2021 thru 5PM - Monday - May 17th, 2021

OBA Delegate Elections, 2021-2022

Brunton-Will CLE Award Recipient Sheila Naifeh

Member Appreciation Event - Tulsa Drillers, May 22nd

Local Gallery to Present Race Massacre Centennial Exhibition

VP's Corner -April Showers Bring May Flowers (and Thanks) Philip Hixon

Bar Center Open House

2021 Liberty Bell Award Justin Jones

The Mask In The Courtroom By Jesse Wilson

Summary of ABA 2021 Midyear Meeting Molly Aspan, TCBA Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates

Mock Trial -

Celebrating Success - Law Week Student Contest Participants, Drive Thru Recognition

Community Outreach Committee

TCBA Benefit- Live Streaming Yoga & Pilates

Member Benefits

Fostering Connections - Children & the Law News

Grapevine

Classifieds

TCBA ELECTIONS

Go to https://vote.associationvoting. com/tcba/ Email frontdesk@tulsabar.com to request a paper ballot if you prefer.

Bar Center Open House May 13th See page 21

TCBA Contacts, Committees & Sections Page 36 Tulsa Lawyer 1

A Message from the President Kimberly K. Moore

Looking Forward The Easter Bunny has come and gone. Sugar highs are gone. Left only are a few remnants of plastic eggs in the back yard that Pluto got a hold of. While not my favorite season, Spring is definitely my second favorite. If you know me, you know that Fall is my favorite season. Spring is remindful of new beginnings. Trees come alive, flowers bloom, planting season begins, animals wake up and temperatures begin to rise. What better time to go to the park?

of them was curious, so as her mate kept a close eye she walked slowly towards Zachary eventually stretching out her neck, sniffing him. She either decided he did not have anything good to eat or that he was not a threat either way she went back to grazing.

As I speak of new beginnings, this month’s focus is on elections. You will soon be voting for your 2021/2022 TCBA officers and your OBA Delegates and Alternates. Please take a few moments and get to know My son, Zachary, loves to frequent Woodward the nominees. Park to feed the squirrels. We were there last week A special thank you to all the attorneys who after school and I noticed the Redbud trees showing gave of their time and efforts to make our 2021 Law signs of blooming, the Dogwoods were in bloom, the Day Symposium a success. A special thank you to beautiful pink Azaleas were all around us and the bulbs our presenters; Phil Armstrong and Hannibal Johnson, were coming up. The squirrels were still showing signs Tom Vincent, II and Candace Pace and Keith and Dana of their winter weight and although they accepted our Cutler from Kansas City, MO. unsalted peanuts they clearly preferred our pecans. I guess I need to make another trip to Carmichael’s. Thank you to the attorneys who volunteered for our First Responders and Teachers Will Clinic. Today I took my boys to another park to fly their kites. Although it was not very windy, as Alex pointed Lastly, Law Day would not be official without out, I had faith. Sure enough we were able to get one recognizing the great achievements by Judge Daman high up in the sky. The other kite, well, it apparently Cantrell, Judge Bland, Coach Nicole Green and the had been detailed by Zachary so it just spun in circles. Owasso Rams Mock Trial Team. All 3 teams went to So as Alex flew his kite, Zachary and I decided to the semi-finals and advanced into the State Finals for a explore nature. We spotted a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 7th straight year. Congratulations Rams! a hummingbird and 2 geese flew right over our heads honking. As we came to the ponds, he had fun counting all the turtles. Most were sunbathing but we caught a few taking a swim. We also found our geese grazing in the grass and decided to sit and watch a bit. I guess one See page 21 for an

Bar Center News... exciting announcement!

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Bar Updates & Events!

• The TCBF Annual Golf Tournament will be held • Virtual Happy Hour supporting Fostering at Meadowbrook on May 3. Connections and hosted by Children & the Law Committee & Juvenile Law Section. May 27. • Legal Aid Spring Seminar is May 3-May 7. Contact karen.langdon@laok.org to register. • The C.A.P. Program is still looking for volunteers to assist on the FED docket. Please contact Beth • Will execution for the TCBA Free Estate Nellis at bethnellis@cox.net to sign up. Planning Clinic for First Responders is May 4. • Virtual Flower Arranging member event is May 6. Tickets are $45.

• Mother’s Day is May 9. • Drive Thru Student Award Presentation hosted by the Law Week Committee. May 12, 4-6pm, TCBA parking lot.

Please register for TCBA events at the TCBA website.

www.tulsabar.com We would not be the success we are without our TCBA members!

• The TCBA remodel is complete. We will host an OPEN HOUSE on May 13 from 4-6pm. • Drillers Game Member Appreciation Event, May 22 from 7-9pm. Free for Members!

Kimberly K. Moore TCBA President, 2020-2021

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Children & the Law Committee Spring Fundraiser The Tulsa County Bar Association Children & the Law Committee is supporting Fostering Connections for its Spring fundraiser (formerly Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children TAPC). Fostering Connections provides children placed in relative/kinship foster care immediate access to basic needs. They rely on the generosity of the greater Tulsa community to provide for these needs. With your support, they can continue to provide free resources and stability to children in foster care and their families. Please consider either donating cash or shopping Fostering Connections Amazon wish list to show your support. More information and links to the wishlist can be found by visiting the link below.

https://www.fosteringconnectionsok.org/copy-of-support-an-event Each gift, big or small, monthly or annually, allows Fostering Connections to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of these vulnerable kids.

The Tropical Vacation

Virtual Happy Hour via Zoom to benefit

Fostering Connections

May 27th

6:30pm-7:30pm

Happy hour kits will include an alcoholic and non-alcoholic option. The kits will cost $50.00 and will include everything you need to make a few drinks. Register at www.tulsabar.com.

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2021 Tulsa County Bar Foundation

Annual Charity Golf Tournament Thank You to Our Sponsors! EAGLE

Rhodes Hieronymous Mazzios Jackie Cooper

Richards & Connor Doerner Saunders Daniel & Anderson

BIRDIE

Barrow & Grimm

PAR

James R. Gotwals & Associates Titus Hillis Reynolds Love

Moyers Martin

Brad Williams Graves McLain

HOLE

Archer Law Oklahoma Attorneys Mutual Insurance

William Kellough Professional Reporters Stanley Monroe

And congratulations to everyone who participated and made the day a success!

TC BA E l e c t i o n s

Candidates for the Tulsa County Bar Association 2021-2202 Elections present their credentials in this issue of Tulsa Lawyer. Director-at-Large/Medium Firm is the only contested positions in this year's election. If a candidate did not provide an answer for a particular question, the question is not listed under their credentials. 6 Tulsa Lawyer

Officers 2021-2022

The candidates were asked the following questions: • • • • • •

Firm/Employer Name & Position Year of Admission to Practice Years in Practice in Tulsa TCBA Offices, Committees (last 5 years) OBA Offices, Committees (last 5 years) Outside/Community Activities (last 5 years)

• If elected, what are your goals for this office? • Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you?

President Elect - Philip D. Hixon Shareholder, GableGotwals Year of Admission to practice law: 2001 Years in practice in Tulsa: 20 TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last five years): • Vice President (2020-2021) • Treasurer (2019-2020) • Director at Large, Large Firm (2018-present) • Budget Chair (2018-2019) • TCBA Health Law Section, Co-Chair (2015-2017)

If elected, what are your goals for this office: I would be honored to serve as President-Elect of the Bar Association for the 20210-2022 fiscal year. As PresidentElect, I would execute the duties and responsibilities of the office, assist the President in implementing her vision for the TCBA during the 2021-2022, and begin planning for 2022-2023. I would explore (i) opportunities to further enhance the value of membership in a voluntary association like the TCBA, and (ii) forming a special committee to evaluate whether the TCBA may be able to provide assistance to the administrative director of courts or others, in any form however limited, in achieving implementation of an online filing system for state courts.

Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: I am qualified to fulfill the responsibilities of PresidentElect by prior bar association and leadership experiences. I have familiarity with the TCBA’s operation and programs gained through recent experience and prior Outside / Community Activities (last five years): TCBA board experience as Vice President, Treasurer, • Tulsa County Bar Foundation, Treasurer Budget Chair, and chair of the YLD, Tulsa Lawyer, and (2017-Present) Santa Brings a Lawsuit committees. During my terms on • Morton Comprehensive Health Services, Inc., Board TCBA Executive Committee, I have worked to improve of Directors (2018-present) operations of TCBA. I am in my fourth year as treasurer • Will Rogers Memorial Commission, past member of the TCBA and have worked to improve coordination between the TCBA and TCBF and, with the assistance and Vice Chair (2012-2016) of others, facilitated an amicable compromise position • Oklahoma Health Lawyers, Vice President (2016- between the TCBA and TCBF clearing the way for the 2017), President (2017-Present) recent interior remodel of the Bar Center. In addition, I • Federalist Society, Tulsa Lawyer Chapter, have extensive service experience with similar not-for Membership Chair (2014-Present). profit civic organizations, including (in addition to those listed above) Tulsa Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together Tulsa, Tulsa Lawyers for Children, and Big Brothers and Sisters of Green Country.

OBA Offices, Committees (last five years): • OBA Delegate (2021-present) • OBA Alternate Delegate (2018-2020) • OBA Health Law Section (2015-Present)

Vice President - Michael Esmond Moyers Martin, LLP / Partner

If elected, what are your goals for this office: I look forward to helping the President achieve her goals for the Association and assisting committee and section Year of Admission to practice chairs in the development and execution of programs and activities that benefit TCBA members. law: 2005 Years in practice in Tulsa: 16 TCBA Offices/ Committees (last five years): • Treasurer, 2020-2021 • Budget Chair, 2019-2020

Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: I will bring a deep understanding of the operations of the TCBA and TCBF and a commitment to pursue the high standards established by predecessors.

OBA Offices, Committees (last five years): None Outside / Community Activities (last five years): • Tulsa County Bar Foundation, Secretary, 2012-2019 • Board Member/Vice President, Pause4Paws, 2018 2019

TCBA ELECTIONS

ONLINE VOTING 8AM - Monday May 3rd , 2021 thru 5PM - Monday May 17th, 2021 Go to

https://vote.associationvoting. com/tcba/ • Any problems with logging in please email tamiw@tulsabar.com. • Email frontdesk@tulsabar.com to request a paper ballot. 8 Tulsa Lawyer

Secretary - Stephanie R. Jackson Law Office of Stephanie R. Jackson, PC / Owner-Attorney at Law Year of Admission to Practice: 2018 Years in practice in Tulsa: 2.5 years

If elected, what are your goals for this office: If elected my goals are to work cohesively with the other elected members of the board, and to perform the duties of secretary in accordance with the TCBA bylaws by ensuring the accuracy of all meeting minutes and maintaining proper preservation of the records, books and papers of the Association, the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.

TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): Which qualities that you bring to this office do you • Law Related Education Committee, Co-Chair, 2020- want members to consider when voting for you: 2021 The qualities that I bring to the office of secretary that members should consider when voting for me are OBA Offices, Committees (last 5 years): (1) commitment, (2) integrity, (3) accuracy, and (4) • EPPT Committee, Tulsa Liaison 2020-2021 efficiency. • EPPT Medicaid Subcommittee, Member Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • TU Law Alumni Board, 1921 Race Massacre Coalition, Co-Chair, 2020-21 • TU Alumni Board, Member, 2019-Present; • Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Tulsa Alumnae Chapter, Emergency Response Team, Chair, 2019-Present • Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Washington, DC, Grand Chapter, National Constitution & Bylaws, Member, 2013-Present • Holland Hall School, Board of Trustees, Audit & Risk Management Committee, Chair, 2020-2021; • Family Safety Center, Board of Directors, 2019-Present • David E. and Cassie L. Temple Foundation, Trustee, Board Secretary, 2019-Present

Bar Center Summer Hours Beginning Friday, June 6th

Mon-Thu, 9am-5pm Friday 9am-1pm

Treasurer Lesa Creveling The Trust Company of Oklahoma, Executive Vice President

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

Year of Admission to Practice: 1984 Years in practice in Tulsa: 35 years TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Budget Chair, TCBA OBA Offices, Committees (last 5 years): • More than 5 years ago Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • Tulsa Estate Planning Forum • Tulsa Title & Probate • Various volunteer activities and pro bono work

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Mother's Day Sunday, May 9th

Director-at-Large 2 yr, Large Firm:

C. Austin Birnie Conner & Winters, LLP (Partner) Year of Admission to Practice: 2014 Years in practice in Tulsa: 7 years TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Director at Large (Large Firm) OBA Offices, Committees (last 5 years): • OBA Alternate Delegate Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • Tulsa Opera Board of Directors

If elected, what are your goals for this office: I will continue to serve the needs of the Tulsa legal community by advancing the TCBA’s commitment to community service, as exemplified recently in our free wills clinic for first responders. I will also continue to promote the wide range of CLE offerings available for our members, and endeavor to increase participation in these and other community events. Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: As a native Tulsan, I am committed to seeing the Tulsa legal community flourish, both in terms of lawyers connecting with other lawyers and in our serving the community as a whole. I have served as a TCBA officer for the past two years, and wish to continue in my service of this great organization.

Director-at-Large 2 yr, Solo/Small Firm: Linda Morrissey Barnes Law PLLC and Mediation by Morrissey through DRC Year of Admission to Practice: 1980 Years in practice in Tulsa: 41 years TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • OBA Delegate • TCBA Board OBA Offices, Committees (last 5 years): • Alternative Dispute Resolution Section - Vice Chair • Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section

Outside / Community Activities (Last 5 years): • Okla Academy of Collaborative Professionals – Board of Directors • American Academy of Certified Financial Professionals • If elected, what are your goals for this office: Strengthening the working relationship between the TCBA and the judiciary; promoting a relationship between the TCBA and the TU Law School. To promote the TCBA in the legal community, encourage support for law students and new lawyers, and expand programs for lawyers. Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: Experience; Dedication to the legal community; Perseverance; Ingenuity; Reliable; Conscientious.

Director-at-Large 2 yr, Mid Size Firm: Rhiannon K. Baker Holden Litigation, Partner Year of Admission to Practice: 2009 Years in practice in Tulsa: 10 years OBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Board Member, Oklahoma Bar Association Young Lawyer Division Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • Leadership Tulsa, Class 58 • Council Oak / Johnson-Sontag Inns of Court • Board Member, U. of Tulsa Law Alumni Association • Board Member, Coalition Against Sexual Assault

• Tulsa Lawyers for Children, Volunteer Attorney • RAINN Speaker’s Bureau If elected, what are your goals for this office: To grow membership and encourage member participation in both fun membership events as well as in upcoming CLE’s. I will participate in the monthly board meetings, provide input into planning for all members, and help out where needed. • • •

Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: I enjoy working and collaborating with my colleagues in the legal community, but am not afraid to challenge the status quo to advocate for change where necessary.

Director-at-Large 2 yr, Mid Size Firm: Jennifer L. Struble Partner, Secrest, Hill, Butler & Secrest Year of Admission to Practice: 2003 Years in practice in Tulsa: 18 years TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Director at Large Medium Firm • Chair Law Related Education Committee Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • President, 5300 Club Neighborhood Pool • Co Chair Bishop Kelley Football Moms

If elected, what are your goals for this office: • Encourage greater participation in TCBA programs and committees. • Assist Committee chairs in the accomplishment of their various goals • • •

Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: I have served on the TCBA Board for a number of years and have always encouraged participation by local attorneys. I am aware of the criticisms of the bar association.

Oklahoma Trivia Motto: Labor Omnia Vincit (“Labor Conquers All Things”) Tree: Redbud Flower: Oklahoma Rose Bird: Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher

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Director-at-Large 2 yr, Public Sector: Ann Keele Tulsa County District Court/Special Judge Year of Admission to Practice: 2006 Years in practice in Tulsa: 15 years TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Director at Large • President • President-Elect • Vice President • Secretary • Chair of Children & the Law Committee OBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Chair /Member of Law Schools Committee Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • Member of the Executive Council for the National Conference of Bar Presidents • Board member, University of Tulsa College of Law Alumni Board of Directors • Judge of multiple mock trials for high school and law school competitions • Team Lead at World Outreach Church; • Teach CLE presentations • Teach and organize leadership presentations for NCBP

If elected, what are your goals for this office: Continue to work on TCBA projects and strategic planning to enhance TCBA’s relevance, value, and reach within our community. • •

Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: Enthusiasm, care, dedication, integrity, and thoughtfulness.

Did You Know?

Armed Forces Day - May 16th, 2021 President Harry S. Truman led the effort

to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country. On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days.The single day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under the Department of Defense.

Library Trustee - Trish L. Archer Archer Law, PLLC Owner Year of Admission to Practice: 2005 Years in practice in Tulsa: 16 years

If elected, what are your goals for this office: Ensure access to justice for the public and to advocate for necessary support services to the members of the bar. •

Which qualities that you bring to this office do you want members to consider when voting for you: I am a hard worker and true to my word.

TCBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • Law Library Trustee • Golf Committee Chair OBA Offices / Committee Chairs (last 5 years): • President Indian Law Sectiol Outside / Community Activities (last 5 years): • President Cherokee Nation Bar

Special thanks to the TCBF Law Day Committee for all of their work and many contributions to the celebration of Law Day 2021! Chair: Lizzie Riter Hon. Martha Rupp Carter Hon. Dana Kuehn Rodney Buck Mary Bundren Daniel Crawford Robert Redemann David Tracy Hon. Daman Cantrell Whitney Webb

Resource Page

Be sure to visit www.tulsabar.com and follow us on FaceBook A quick resource with links to press releases and notices for Tulsa County Courts, OSCN, Northern District of Oklahoma, OBA, Dept. of Health, State & District Administrative Orders and more.

OBA DELEGATES 2021-2022 Each of the nominees for OBA Delegate was asked to provide the following information: Are you still interested in serving as an alternate? Email tamiw@tulsabar.com

• Employer & position

• Year admitted to practice • Years practicing in Tulsa

• Their goals are for the office of OBA Delegate

Rhiannon K. Baker

• Holden Litigation • 2009 • 10 years • My goal is to represent the TCBA with a fresh set of eyes and represent our legal community at the state level.

Michael Esmond • Moyers Martin, LLP/Partner • 2003 • 17 years • I have participated in the OBA House of Delegates in some capacity over the past 17 years, and I am always proud and honored to represent Tulsa lawyers in matters of importance to our legal profession.

James R. Gotwals • James R. Gotwals and Associates, Inc., President • 1975 • 46 • To ethically and effectively represent the TCBA at the Oklahoma Bar Association.

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Sabah Kahlaf • Khalaf Law Firm PLLC - Owner • 2010 • 10 years • To represent my constituents’ interests and further their agendas.

Vivek Kembaiyan • Criminal Defense Attorney at Still She Rises • 2020 • 6 months • Our profession should be one where no one is discouraged from joining due to their lack of wealth or privilege. Towards that end, I think we should do away with the bar exam and implement a system of diploma privilege. If elected, I will use my position to advocate for these changes.

Kimberly K. Moore • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma • 2004 • 16 years • To represent the TCBA members of Tulsa County.

Linda Morrissey

Deborah A. Reed

• Attorney at Barnes Law and Mediator and Arbitrator with DRC • 1980 • 41 years • To promote the TCBA in the legal community, encourage support for law students and new lawyers, and expand programs for lawyers.

Justin B. Munn • Attorney with Smakal Munn, PC • 1998 • 21 • To represent the TCBA’s membership and their interests at the state level with the OBA, and to act as a liaison between the TCBA and OBA for the TCBA members.

Millie Otey • Retired Tulsa County Judge

• 1979 • Tulsa lawyers have a unique perspective and should have their perspective represented state-wide through consistent representation at the OBA House of Delegates. I have served over two decades and would be honored to continue to serve.

Barrett L. Powers • GableGotwals, Associate Attorney • 2015 • 5 years • To effectively represent and advocate for the interests of the TCBA.

• Sterling Oaks Law Firm, PLLC, Managing Member • 2011 • 9 years • My goals if elected are to stay involved with the Bar Association at the County and State levels. I will serve and represent attorneys from Tulsa County to the best of my ability.

Pierre D. Robertson • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Staff Attorney • 2020 • 1 year • If elected, I will serve as a liaison between the OBA and the Tulsa County Bar Association. My primary goals are involving recently admitted attorneys with the OBA and disseminating OBA programs and events to my TCBA colleagues..

Morgan Taylor Lee Smith

• Associate Attorney at Jones, Gotcher, & Bogan, P.C. • 2019 • 2 years • I would work to serve and communicate the interests of our legal community at the annual meeting.

Ashley Webb • Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison and Lewis - Partner • 2004 • 17 years • To continue to address, and make more accessible to the membership, the ongoing, ever-evolving issues that define our relationship as individual practitioners with the Bar Association. Now, more than ever, it is important for that relationship to be helpful and responsive as we address our practices both in one of Oklahoma’s largest markets, and throughout eastern Oklahoma.

Brunton-Will CLE Award Recipient

Sheila Naifeh

The Brunton-Will CLE award is presented once a year to an outstanding Tulsa County Attorney who has demonstrated excellence in teaching CLE courses on a regular basis. The award is intended to honor someone who has made the commitment and sacrifice to help educate and instruct us all in the ever changing world we call ‘The Law.’

walks in. She has demonstrated the courage of her convictions in her representations. When she’s not defending attorneys, Sheila is constantly working on her next CLE presentation. To describe Sheila with just one adjective is impossible. To be more accurate, Sheila brings humor, compassion, cleverness, wisdom and a true desire to help her peers through her presentations. As for myself, I never miss the opportunity to learn from Sheila. She always has ‘a packed house’ when she’s presenting her material.

It is with the greatest pleasure that the 2021 Law Day Committee has chosen Sheila Naifeh as this year’s This year’s winner, Sheila Naifeh, truly needs no recipient of the Brunton-Will CLE award. introduction. Sheila has practice law in Oklahoma for decades. There isn’t a courthouse within 100 miles Submitted by Dan Crawford of Tulsa that doesn’t recognize Sheila the moment she

Tulsa Drillers vs. Wichita Wind Surge

Join TCBA on the Budweiser Terrace at ONEOK Field Saturday, May 22nd Baseball, food, fun & fireworks!

Gates open at 6pm and game starts at 7pm. - Grilled Hamburgers - Grilled Hot Dogs - Brats - Baked Beans - Pasta Salad - Watermelon - Assorted Cookies

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Member Appreciation Event FREE Family Friendly

Local Gallery to present Race Massacre Centennial exhibition “Tulsa Artist Coalition and its participating artists are excited to be a part of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Commemoration” said committee member Don Thompson. “These artists will present various media to include photography, painting, mixed media, pottery etc. that will showcase images of the past, present and future and be a positive vehicle of reconcilement and conciliation. The public will be in for an Artistic Experience and have an opportunity to purchase these pieces for their collection.” The show will open May 31, 2021, 100 years to the day after the massacre.  Titled “Reaching Back and Going Forward: Learning Our History So We Can Build a Better World and Future” the exhibit will feature: Melody Allen, Margee Aycock, Jamario Beard, Anuj Braggs, Cynthia Brown, Jeremy D. Collier, Charica Daugherty, Dorris B. Levasheff, John Hammer, Elizabeth Henley, Yielbonzie Charles Johnson and Don Thompson.   TAC located in the heart of the Tulsa Arts District since 1992, is dedicated to the presentation of art by the

residents of greater Tulsa and selected nationally based artists. “Before the pandemic, TAC presented shows monthly at our gallery at 9 E. Reconciliation Way. We feel that commemorating the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre is important and will move forward with the exhibit following recommended COVID safety guidelines,” said TAC VP RC Morrison. For more information contact RC Morrison, areseemorrison3@gmail.com or 918-693-8569

At a glance: • Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Exhibition Commemorating 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre • May 31-June 26, 2021, times TBD • TAC Gallery 9 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa OK 74103 • TAC website: www.tacgallery.org • Appropriate COVID-19 safety measures will be in place for staff and guests

The Bar Center will be CLOSED for Memorial Day

Monday, May 30

VP'S CORNER

Philip Hixon, TCBA Vice President

APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS (AND THANKS) April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes. Then there’s the poem from the seventeenth century: “Sweet April showers / Do spring May flowers.” And, for the Middle English enthusiasts among us, there’s the prologue from The Cantebury Tales: “Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote / The drogthe of March hath perced to the roote.” (By the way, I can attest that the developers of MS Word’s spellcheck are apparently no fan of Mr. Chaucer.) Anyway, May flowers, what of them? The bellflower, dianthus, eustoma, lathyrus (or sweet pea), and hydrangea—some of which surely bloom in May— are flowers that symbolize gratitude. This month’s article, with its circuitous introduction, is a thank you note to all of those who organized, donated to, and participated in the Association’s Law Day events.

Armstrong, Dana & Keith Cuther, Hannibal Johnson, Candace Pace, and (my colleague) Tom Vincent. Third, special thanks to the organizers and sponsors of the TCBF Annual Golf Tournament, including Trisha Archer and her committee and the tournament sponsors (Rhodes Hieronymus, Richards & Connor, Mazzio’s, Barrow & Grimm, Jim Gotwals, Titus Hillis Reynolds Love, Brad Williams, Graves McLain, Archer Law, William Kellough, OAMIC, and Professional Reporters). Fourth, thank goes out to all the volunteer attorneys who graciously donated their time and efforts to the Association’s first (annual?) First Responder Will Project: Madison Cataudella, Coy Coffman, Lesa Creveling, Gary Crews, Julie Evans, Robert Farris, Randall Gill, Randi Gill, Zac Hargis, Stephanie Jackson, Brittany Littleton, Kimberly Moore, Linda Morrissey, Tim Studebaker, Emily Turner, Kara Vincent, Kimberly Vojvoda, and Karen Wilkins.

First, many thanks are owed to Lizzie Riter and her Law Day Committee (Hon. Martha Rupp Carter, Hon. Dana Kuehn, Rodney Buck, Mary Bundren, Daniel Crawford, Robert Redemann, and David Tracy) for organizing the various events. Without their efforts, Law Day wouldn’t Last, but by no means least, no show of gratitude would have been the success it was. be complete without recognition of Tami Williams and Second, thank you to all the Law Day event sponsors, the Bar Center staff, who are always an integral part including without limitation GableGotwals, Graves of all Association activities. If I left anyone, and I am McLain, Hall Estill, and Kevin Matthews; the organizers certain I did, you too have my thanks and my apology for and hosts of the Lynn Miller Law Day Book Club events; the inadvertent omission. and the speakers at the Virtual Law Day Symposium: Phil

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Bar Center Open House Please Join Us!

Thursday, May 13

4:00pm-6:00pm

Food Truck TCBA Swag Socially distanced / timed tours of your newly remodelled Bar Center Photographer to provide FREE headshots of members!

We are excited to welcome you into the Bar Center and have you experience the fresh new interior and amenities!

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2021 LIBERTY BELL AWARD

Justin Jones Justin Jones is the embodiment of the Liberty Bell Award, one of the most prestigious awards bestowed by the Tulsa County Bar Foundation. The Liberty Bell Award is presented to a non-lawyer who has promoted better understanding of the rule of law, encouraged greater respect for law and the courts, stimulated a sense of civic responsibility, or contributed to good government in the community. Justin served as Director of the Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau from 2015-2020. As Director, he was responsible for the direct operations of the Juvenile Bureau as dictated by statute and other duties directed by the Juvenile Division’s Chief Judge. Juvenile operations under his direction included probation and intake services related to young people arrested for alleged criminal conduct and charged with delinquency; detention of youth as necessary and allowed by law within the facility; the Tulsa Area Community Intervention Center, and, an alternative high school street school, Phoenix Rising. His efforts as Director in every way advanced Juvenile Justice for Tulsa County, pushing and modernizing services to a cutting edge level. Justin’s first big change for the Juvenile Bureau was to move Tulsa Area Community Intervention Center (“CIC”) within the Juvenile Bureau as originally envisioned. He focused on employee development, directing training programs be created and provided to employees in order to implement national recommendations for Juvenile Justice best practices and the adoption of evidence-based programming. To continue reaching for successful outcomes for juveniles, Justin implemented a recidivism study to learn why juveniles who succeeded did so. And, he drafted policies to cover Bureau operations and reorganized the Juvenile Bureau to best support implementing outcome and evidence-based best practices. Justin’s dedicated service and efforts set the Juvenile Bureau on the path toward improved outcomes for Tulsa youth and their families. 22 Tulsa Lawyer

According to David Grewe, Director of Youth Services of Tulsa, “Justin demonstrated these values as a strong partner in diverting youth out of the system and into much needed services. Justin understands that resolving past trauma allows youth a second chance to embrace their potential.” Amy Santee of the George Kaiser Family Foundation says this of Justin: “For 15 years, I have had the honor and privilege to know Justin Jones through his work as Director of Oklahoma Department of Corrections, and more recently as Director of the Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau. In leading these agencies, he beautifully balanced his in-depth knowledge of best practices and research with an unwavering commitment to equity and justice. He ensured all individuals involved in the adult and juvenile systems were treated with dignity and respect, never allowing the past to define their futures. Justin has and will continue to be a champion for justice.”

Justin was the daily, toiling force in the effort to locate property for construction of the Tulsa County Family Center for Juvenile Justice, an effort that took almost two years. He attended numerous community meetings with County elected officials to address concerns regarding various properties under consideration. And, after property was selected, he was tasked with coordinating the revision of building plans for the Family Center as was necessary to allow construction within the budget limits, reduced from $82 million to $45 million that had to include the cost of the land, demolition of structures on the property, and surveying in addition to construction costs. He oversaw and reported regularly to County Commissioners the roughly two-year construction process for the Family Center, bringing the project home $2.5 million dollars under budget. In November 2019, Justin Jones moved Juvenile Bureau staff and operations to the Family Center. County Commissioner Karen Keith says: “Justin Jones was the right leader at the right time. Without his leadership, I can’t imagine how the Family Center for Juvenile Justice would have come out of the ground. Justin was invaluable to Judge Doris Fransein as he helped guide construction and managed to keep all the functions of the Juvenile Bureau on track. Tulsa County is forever grateful to Justin for his tireless efforts and the extraordinary outcomes.” From 2005 to 2013, Justin Jones served as Director to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. He began as a probation and parole officer and rose to increasingly higher positions within DOC over his thirty-five year career in corrections. He is an author of a work of fiction and Tales of the Caseload, published by the American Probation and Parole Association and Council of State Governments; a National Institute of Corrections Trainer; an adjunct professor of University of Central Oklahoma; served as Chairperson for Reentry Committee for the Association of Correctional Administrators; served the State Board of Directors with Big Brothers and Big Sisters; and, served as Chairperson of Board of Directors for Little Light School, a school for children of incarcerated parents, to name only a few of Justin’s many accomplishments.

Congratulations to Justin Jones, a most worthy recipient of the Liberty Bell Award.

The Liberty Bell Award was established more than 50 years ago to acknowledge outstanding community service. The Liberty Bell is presented to a non-lawyer who has promoted better understanding of the rule of law, encouraged greater respect for law and the courts, stimulated a sense of civic responsibility, or contributed to good government in the community. The Liberty Bell Award is one of the most prestigious awards the Tulsa County Bar Foundation can bestow on an individual or group of individuals.

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The Mask In The Courtroom Making The Emotional Connection To Your Client, Your Jurors… and You!

By Jesse Wilson

Jury Trial Consultant and CEO of “Tell The Winning Story” Whether you like it or not, when you are in the courtroom you are in a performance. But what kind of performance will it be? My background is in theater, but the origins for working with trial lawyers came with sharing the lessons from the stage with inmates. One of the primary tools that we worked with was the use of the character mask. Among many things (such as producing powerful empathy, healing, and change) the character mask is designed to reveal the emotional truth of the real person hidden behind the mask. When you slip the character mask over your face, you’re able to almost instantly and often joyfully free up your inhibitions—your creative instincts, impulses, and imagination as a storyteller and communicator. The work demands that you fill in the life of the mask non verbally, verbally, vocally, emotionally, and psychologically, in order to embody the core truth of the character… often beneath the crud of their very rough exterior. (All the masks I share with lawyers have rough exteriors… some are even terrifying looking at first glance. That’s the point.) There is a mask exercise I call “The Redemption Exercise.” (You could easily call it “Try To Make Me Care About This Person”.) The point is, the exercise is designed to find something likeable about the character. In essence, it is designed to discover the character’s hidden victor story which of course is very hard to do when you’re wearing a mask that is the portrait of pure and utter pain, and often even, villainous looking. But that’s the point. This is also the difference between identifying the surface vs the beneath-the-surface story of your client which I will explore with trial lawyers in the “Tell The Winning Story” workshops and seminars. “Who is this person? Who is this character you see before you?” I will ask lawyers in the mask work as they stand wearing their grimacing masks of pain. “And if we were to care about this person, what would we need to see? 24 Tulsa Lawyer

What would have to happen?” The magic of the change unfolds, always my favorite part to watch. When you’re holding a misshapen, scary, and often very off-putting looking mask in your hands, it’s easy to want to judge that character by its appearance. The mask challenges you to look deeper so that you can look deeper behind the mask of your client. There’s always a greater story.., there’s always another mask. And you need to always look deeper to find the right story. When you look deeper into the hidden story of your client, it’s inevitable that you take you along the journey. For a deep dive into demystifying the courtroom performance with Jesse and his colleagues Rena Cook and Natalie, check this out: “Performance Mastery: Command the Courtroom Stage” Oct 15017, 2021. https://myvocalauthority. com/retreat/ for details and registration. Removing the mask of your witness requires imagination, collaboration, trust, and courage to be able to look deeper into the light of who they really are… but mainly it requires you to know what you’re even looking for in the first place. Your job is to help remove your client’s mask before depositions are even taken. And that begins with discovering how they need to be seen in this story you are telling together. And so, the endless checklists, techniques, tips, proper setting suggestions, handholding moments and other time-worn tools of the trade for preparing your clients for deposition, pre-trial, and trial won’t mean jack if

the client doesn’t know who they are supposed to be. This, perhaps, is the greatest witness preparation skill that you need to learn and apply immediately: getting your client and witness on board in the right role and the right casting. As motivational teacher Wayne Dyer said, “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” I had the opportunity of sharing the mask work while teaching at Trial Lawyers College. Communications expert and legend Joshua Karton, who also got to be a participant in the workshop, brilliantly observed, “The mask doesn’t conceal…it reveals.”

So absolutely true.

Your job is to be able to remove the mask so you can set the stage for the emotional truth of the right character and the right story to always be revealed.

And what of your own mask?

We all wear masks, every moment, every day, moment to moment.

Which role will you play?

Which role will you embrace?

When you can remove your mask—the one that is robbing you from your true, raw, authentic power as a great communicator and storyteller-- you set the stage for your greater story to begin. An exciting, scary, but totally liberating process.

And so worth it.

The world is starving for it.

Welcome to the stage!

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The Mask Reveals, It Does Not Conceal

About the Authors Jesse Wilson is a communication specialist, speaking coach, and jury trial lawyer consultant. A Juilliard Theater graduate, after 20 years of working in the world of theater, he has created “Tell The Winning Story” to empower trial lawyers to deliver high-impact presentations, as well as rapidly transform their communication and collaboration skills to effectively prepare clients and witnesses to testify. Jesse was inspired to create “Tell The Winning Story” after co-developing a Theater-Behind-Bars program for inmates. The program helped inmates make powerful changes in their lives. The true power of a story always comes from inside us, the storyteller, and the path to developing a winning story begins with the lawyer owning their own story. “Tell The Winning Story” provides the lawyer the difference between telling a “hidden, safe, ‘surface’ story,” and powerfully connecting to a story that goes right to the heart of their audience, whomever that audience happens to be. Jesse’s hands on training is featured in his seminars, law firm retreats, intensives, workshops and webinars. www.tellthewinningstory.com

Rena Cook is Professor Emerita, TEDx speaker, presentation trainer, author of Her Voice In Law published by the ABA. https:// www.americanbar.org/products/inv/ book/393310705/ Performance Mastery: Command the Courtroom Stage - a Retreat, October 15-17, Rena Cook, Jesse Wilson and Natalie Andrews facilitate this theatrebased training for attorneys. Highly interactive and creative, participants will learn ease and confidence in front of the jury, dynamic and authentic presentations, powerful and timeless storytelling techniques from the stage and screen, clarity of body language, ease of vocal clarity and authority and strategies for preparing and presenting winning opening and closing. For details and registration: www.myvocalauthority.com/retreat

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Summary of ABA 2021 Midyear Meeting Molly Aspan, Tulsa County Bar Association Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates

I was honored to serve as the Tulsa County Bar Association Delegate at the Virtual Midyear ABA Meeting in February. The Midyear Meeting included three days of complimentary live CLEs, and ABA members can access more than 600 online CLE webinars and on-demand programs at no additional cost, with more programs added each month. The ABA House of Delegates, along with the Hon. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as moderator, also hosted a program that is available online for all attorneys (even if you are not an ABA member) titled “Is there a Case for Structural Reform of the U.S. Supreme Court?” The House of Delegates met virtually for its business meeting on February 22, and, in addition to adopting 31 measures, heard remarks from ABA President Patricia Lee Refo of Arizona, ABA President-Elect, who challenged members by stating “[t]his is the charge we must adopt for ourselves in this moment—that we will emerge from the pandemic building a justice system in America that is even more just, that provides more access to more people in better ways and that moves us ever closer to the promise of equal justice under law.” Deborah Enix-Ross of New York accepted the nomination to serve as nominee for ABA President-Elect, following current ABA President-Elect Reginald Turner of Michigan. The 597 members of the House of Delegates adopted 31 resolutions at the 2021 Virtual Midyear Meeting. These policy proposals enable the ABA to lobby legislators and file amicus briefs in these policy areas. Below are summaries of some of the resolutions and reports that were approved by the House of Delegates: •

Resolution 10F urges federal, state, territorial and tribal governments and police commissions to establish officer training and implement guidelines to be used by officers in giving exit orders during discretionary traffic enforcement stops where the officer has safety concerns or a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity;

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Resolution 103A urges protection for Special Immigrant Juvenile beneficiaries from removal from the United States while they wait for a visa to become available;

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Resolution 106C urges Congress and the Executive Branch to develop and implement programs to assist law graduates and law students experiencing financial hardship due to their student loan obligations;

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Resolution 107B urges states to adopt certain principles in administering elections for President of the United States and urges that if a dispute arises as to the proper recipient of the electoral votes for a state, Congress should give controlling effect to the winner of the popular vote for that state (or, if the state allocates electoral votes by congressional district, to the winner of the popular vote in each congressional district), as provided by the law in effect before the election;

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Resolution 107C urges the Department of Defense to declare that HIV status alone should not disqualify a person from military service;

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Resolution107D urges federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal endorsement and adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and calls specifically on Congress to develop a plan to implement;

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Resolutions 108A and 108B approve the Uniform Easement Relocation Act and the Uniform Pretrial Release and Detention Act, both promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, as appropriate Acts for those states desiring to adopt the specific substantive law suggested therein;

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Resolution 110 urges Congress to amend Section 596(c) (2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C. § 1595a(c)(2) (C), to authorize U.S. Customs and Border Protection to enforce design patents in addition to the other forms of rights currently listed in that statute;

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Resolution 112 urges the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to void the Rule adopted on July 23, 202, so as to reinstate the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule in full force and effect; and

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Resolution 113 urges all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal legislative bodies and governmental agencies to take all necessary steps to continue to use total population, including minors and non-citizens, in redrawing electoral district lines after the decennial census to achieve equality of population of districts as required by United States constitutional law.

If anyone would like further information on any of these resolutions or reports, or would like the complete list of resolutions adopted, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Tulsa Lawyer 27

Oklahoma High School Mock Trial Competition Judge Damon Cantrell

The Oklahoma Bar Association Foundation recently sponsored the 42nd year of the Oklahoma High School Mock Trial Competition. 30 teams from 18 schools statewide competed for the first time in a virtual tournament which was an unprecedented challenge for OBA Committee members, led by Tulsa County attorney Andrea Medley, chairperson of the Mock Trial Committee. Despite those challenges, the competition was completed with the help of software from a national nonprofit, Empire Mock Trial, which assisted in the effort. In the end, it was Judge Coach v Judge Coach as Macalester's retired Judge James Bland defeated my Owasso Mock Trial team in the finals in a riveting final round. This was my 32nd year to volunteer for the competition in some capacity, my 20th year as a coach. As I've always said, it is reward enough to work with promising young people, but working regularly with the rules of evidence and trial procedure provides an annual "trial clinic" to keep one's skills current and sharp. As my friend and co- attorney coach Ken Underwood said "I always gain more from the program than I put in. It is such a delight to work with such motivated and intelligent kids who after all, are our future."

OBA Chair Medley noted, "This year's case was an original trial written by Oklahoma lawyers on the committee. It was a first degree murder case that involved a longstanding family feud among rival families. A man is roped around the neck in the rodeo arena and the issue for the case is whether it was a tragic accident-- or was it murder?" While my Owasso Rams team came up just short this year, it was our 7th straight appearance in the State Finals, a 42 year record. I was particularly proud of this year's group as we lost 13 seniors from last season's State Champions, our third consecutive win. Other Tulsa County teams also did well, as Jenks finished in third place and Bishop Kelley in 5th. Several members of the State and Federal bench served as Final Round judges, including Judge Dana Keuhn of the Court of Criminal Appeals and Tulsa County Judge Martha Carter.Other Tulsa area attorneys serving as coaches for Owasso's team included Maegan Murdock, Kaylind Baker, (who are, themselves, alums of Owasso Mock Trial!) and Loretta Radford. I highly encourage all of my Tulsa County colleagues to volunteer as a coach or a judge in this fabulous program that benefits so many.

Judge Cantrell's Owasso Rams Mock Trial Team

"I always gain more from the program than I put in. It is such a delight to work with such motivated and intelligent kids who after all, are our future." ~ Ken Underwood 28 Tulsa Lawyer

Join us to celebrate the success of our Law Week Student Contest Participants! Law Week Committee will be hosting a Drive Thru Student Award Presentation for this year’s contest. May 12, 4pm-6pm, TCBA Parking Lot Oklahoma kept its tradition in celebrating Law Day in a big way. The Oklahoma Bar Association and the Tulsa County Bar Foundation have continued our annual art and writing contests for students. The 2021 theme is “Advancing the Rule of Law, Now". This reminds all of us that we the people share the responsibility to promote the rule of law, defend liberty, and pursue justice. The U.S. Constitution sets out a system of government with distinct and independent branches— Congress, the Presidency, and a Supreme Court. It also defines legislative, executive, and judicial powers and outlines how they interact. These three separate branches share power, and each branch serves as a check on the power of the others. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison explained in Federalist 51. Why? Madison believed that the Constitution’s principles of separation of powers and checks and balances preserve political liberty. They provide a framework for freedom. Yet, this framework is not self-executing. We the people must continually act to ensure that our constitutional democracy endures, preserving our liberties and advancing our rights. Students compted in essay writing contests for elementary, middle and high school age groups. Coloring contests for Pre-K and Transitional First students and art contest for 1st - 12th grade students.

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Community Outreach Committee

Continuing its Work During Challenging Times Saturday, March 27th – five volunteers repainted one of the largest common areas of the Mental Health Association of Oklahoma’s Tulsa Overflow Shelter, and the old juvenile justice center at Gilcrease Museum Road. Participants included Tim Gilpin, KayTee Niquette, Austin Boxley, Ashley Webb and Beth Webb.

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Grapevine News Sherwood, McCormick & Robert is pleased to welcome Jared K. Nelson to the firm. He advises clients on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters involving corporate, business, and health care issues. Nelson graduated with honors from University of Tulsa College of Law. He has represented small, single employee businesses as well as large, national corporations, both in private practice and in-house roles. He distinguishes himself as a technician in the law, regularly designing novel business arrangements and customized transaction structures that fulfill clients’ particular requirements and specifications. His approach to the law serves clients who need assistance with diverse transactional, regulatory and compliance activities, whether arising in general corporate and business environments or the highly regulated health care industry. In particular,

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he possesses a wealth of expertise and experience in health care fraud and abuse investigations, remediation and contracting guidance, including Stark Law, Antikickback Statute, and False Claims Act. Nelson is a member of the American Bar Association, American Health Law Association, Oklahoma Bar Association, and Tulsa County Bar Association. He is recognized as a Super Lawyers® Rising Star in 2015, 2016, and 2017. The American College of Bankruptcy (ACB) has appointed Crowe & Dunlevy attorney Mark A. Craige to its Board of Regents. Craige will represent the 10th Federal Judicial Circuit on the board and will chair the Circuit Admissions Council for that circuit as well. A director in the firm’s Tulsa office, Craige has been an ACB fellow since 2000.

The ACB is a nationwide honorary public service association made up of judges, lawyers, international fellows, accountants, corporate turnaround specialists, government officials and other professionals in the field of bankruptcy and insolvency from around the world. Members are selected based on proven records of the highest standards of expertise, leadership, integrity, professionalism, scholarship and service to the bankruptcy practice and to their communities. Craige is a graduate of the University of Tulsa College of Law and Southeastern Oklahoma State University. GableGotwals is pleased to announce two new associates joined the Firm’s litigation practice. Barrett L. Power is an associate in the Tulsa office of GableGotwals. His practice focuses primarily on business litigation in state and federal courts and federal civil rights litigation. Barrett represents a wide range of clients, including businesses, governmental entities, and individuals in all stages of litigation.He received his J.D. from The University of Tulsa College of Law and his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma. While in law school, Barrett served as an editor on the Tulsa Law Review and as an Executive Director on the Board of Advocates. He was named to the Order of the Curule Chair, the Order of Barristers and was selected by the Oklahoma Bar Association for its Outstanding Student Award. In addition to his studies, Barrett served as a judicial intern for Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.Barrett is active in the Tulsa community, serving on the Alumni Board for the University of Tulsa College of Law, the Board of the Tulsa Chapter of the Federalist Society, and with his church, First Presbyterian Church of Tulsa. Lacy Pulliam is an associate in the Tulsa office of GableGotwals. Her practice focuses on civil litigation, general insurance defense litigation, and healthcare law.She received her J.D. from The University of Tulsa College of Law and her B.A. from the University of North Texas. While in law school, Lacy externed for the Honorable Jane P.

Wiseman at the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. She also competed in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition and served as the Articles and Research Editor for the Tulsa Law Review. She was awarded Order of the Barristers, Order of the Curule Chair, and multiple CALIO Excellence for the Future Awards.

Roger A. Stong

James W. Larimore

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The directors of Crowe & Dunlevy elected attorney Roger A. Stong to serve as the firm’s president and CEO for 2021 and named four other attorneys to serve Karen S. Rieger on its executive committee. In addition to Stong, James W. Larimore was reappointed as vice president of economics and Adam W. Childers, Kari Hoffhines and Malcolm E. Rosser IV will serve as members. The executive committee is responsible for managing the firm’s business operations. The firm also named Cynda C. Ottaway as chair of the board and Karen S. Rieger to serve as the board’s vice-chair. An experienced business lawyer, Stong's practice focuses on corporate and securities law. Stong is a graduate of Indiana University School of Law. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. This is his second tenure as president, having served in that role from 2008 to 2012. Additionally, he chairs the firm’s business department. Larimore's practice focuses on multiple aspects of business, commercial, corporate and securities transactions as well as oil and gas industry transactions. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of

Law and the University of Oklahoma. Childers serves as co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma. Hoffhines is a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Banking & Financial Institutions Practice Groups. She is a graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Central Oklahoma. A director in the firm's Tulsa office, Rosser co-chairs the firm's Real Estate Practice Group. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and Oklahoma State University. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Ottaway chairs the firm’s Private Wealth & Closely-Held Business Practice Group. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma. Rieger is chair of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications for one or more legal writing assistant professor positions to begin August 2021. Areas of teaching may include, though not necessarily limited to, Legal Writing I, Legal Writing II, Legal Writing III. Minimum qualifications include J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school, a strong academic record, and excellent written and oral communication skills. Relevant legal practice experience is preferred. The University of Tulsa College of Law, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, is committed to equality of opportunity in its employment of faculty and staff, without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Members of under-represented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. If you would like to learn more about the College generally, you may visit our website at www.law.utulsa.edu. Please submit a letter of interest, resume, writing sample, and diversity statement to Prof. Robert Butkin, Chair, Appointments Committee, University of Tulsa College of Law, 3120 E. 4th Place, Tulsa, OK 74104, or email to robert-butkin@utulsa.edu.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications for the Director of Academic Support position. The Director of Academic Support provides programming and activities from 1L orientation through post‐graduation Bar preparation for student academic and professional success. To implement the goals of student success, the Director of Academic Support will work closely with the Associate Dean of Students, administrators and faculty to envision, develop and implement ongoing academic success, time management, and wellness programming for all students, with targeted programs as needed for students. The Director will provide programming for all 1L, 2L and 3L students, which may include, but is not limited to, workshops, programming, one-on-one tutoring, skills labs, mentoring, and/or other support activities that will meet student learning needs and improve student outcomes based on data-driven research. The Academic Support Director will be responsible for the law school’s Bar support and success program, including teaching the required Bar preparation course that students take in their last semester of law school. Minimum qualifications include J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school, excellent communication skills, and relevant experience. The University of Tulsa seeks to recruit and retain talented students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. The University of Tulsa is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity employer and encourages qualified candidates across all group demographics to apply. The University does not discriminate on the basis of personal status or group characteristic including, but not limited to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ancestry, or marital status. Please submit a cover letter, résumé, diversity statement, contact information for three references to: The University of Tulsa, Office of Human Resources, 800 S Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104 or submit online at tulsa.edu/job-application . The review of applications will commence immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Tulsa is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/ Veteran. Tulsa Lawyer 35

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TCBA OFFICERS

President................................................................ Kimberly Moore Past President......................................................... Jim Milton President-Elect............................................................ Kara Vincent Vice President.......................................................... Philip D. Hixon Secretary..................................................................... Natalie Sears Treasurer................................................................. Mike Esmond Budget/Internal Operations........................................ Lisa Creveling Foundation President ...........................................Christina Vaughn Director at Large (1) Large Firm................................. Philip Hixon Director at Large (2) Large Firm.......................... C. Austin Birney Director at Large (1) Medium Firm................................ Kara Pratt Director at Large (2) Medium Firm.................. Jennifer L. Struble Director at Large (1) Small Firm...........................Tamera Childers Director at Large (2) Small Firm...........................Linda Morrissey Director at Large (2) Public Sector.........................Hon. Ann Keele ABA Delegate............................................................. Molly Aspan OBA Delegate................................................................Rick White Library Trustee (1)......................................................... Julie Evans Library Trustee (2)............................................ Trisha Archer Presiding Judge ..................................... Judge William LaFortune U.S. District Court .................................. Hon. John Dowdell C.J., Tulsa Municipal Court............................. Hon. Gerald Hofmeister TU Law School.......................................................... Rachel Baker

FOUNDATION APPOINTMENTS

Law Day ......................................................................Lizzie Riter Community Outreach................................................ Ashley Webb Golf Chair.......................................Trisha Archer & Brian Keester Scholarship Chair.....................................................................TBD Submission, Grapevine & AdvertisingVisit www.tulsabar.com Subscriptions to Tulsa Lawyer are available for $40.00 a year to those who are not Tulsa County Bar Association members or others who do not currently receive the publication. Contact Lisa Laughrey at llaughrey@tulsabar.com

FOUNDATION

President...........................................................Christina M.Vaughn Treasurer..................................................................... Philip Hixon Trustee....................................................................... Chad McLain Trustee.......................................................................... Jim Gotwals Trustee.................................................... Hon. Martha Rupp Carter Trustee....................................................................... Ken Williams Trustee...........................................................................Lizzie Riter Trustee........................................................... Hon. Ann Keele Trustee..........................................................................Justin Munn TCBA President.....................................................Kimberly Moore TCBA Pres. Elect........................................................Kara Vincent

COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS

Access to Justice.............................................. ......Shena Burgess Access to Justice Co-Chair...............................Hon. Tanya Wilson Animal Law..................................................... ..........Katy Inhofe Bench & Bar.................................................... Kevinn Matthews Children & the Law......................................... ........Lizzie Riter Children & the Law Vice Chair..........Timothy Michaels-Johnson CLE ................................................................. .........James Asbill Diversity Development......................................................Ben Fu Diversity Co-chair...................................................Deborah Reed Fee Arbitration................................................. ..........Gary Crews Law Related Education...................................Stephanie Jackson Law Related Education Co-Chair.................... ........Ron Jones , II Lawyer Referral............................................... Catherine Hoopert Membership Services....................................................Kara Pratt Mentoring......................................................... ........Randy Lewin Military/Veterans ............................................. ...Mitchell Garrett Military/Veterabs Co-Chair.............................. Hon. David Guten Nominations & Awards.................................... ...........Jim Milton Pro Bono............................................................... Mac Finlayson Professionalism................................................ ...........Rick White Public Relations....................................................Steve Layman Social Media.........................................................Collaborative Special Events.................................................. .......Natalie Sears Tulsa Lawyer.................................................... Michael Taubman Young Lawyers Division................................. ....Ephraim Alajaji

SECTION CHAIRPERSONS

ADR/Mediation..........................................................Melissa Fell Bankruptcy....................................................... ........Paul Thomas Business/Corporate.......................................... .............................. Criminal Law................................................... ........Daniel Levy Employment Law............................................. ...Kassidy Quinten Energy & Mineral Law.................................... .......Ryan Pittman Family Law...................................................... ...Todd Alexander Health Law ...................................................... ..... Kristen Evans Health Law Vice Chair..................................... Whitney Dockrey Immigration Law Chair.................................... ....Whitney Webb Juvenile Law.................................................... ..........Lizzie Riter Juvenile Law Co-Chair.......................Timothy Michaels-Johnson Litigation Co-Chairs...............Robert Mitchener & Robert Winter Municipal Law................................................David Weatherford Paralegals/Legal Assistants.............................. .........Gloria Jones Paralegal /Legal Assistants Vice Chair............ Deborah Gresh Probate/Estate/Elder......................................... ...Catherine Welsh Solo/Small Firm............................................... .....................TBD Tax ......................................................... .....Ashlee Crouch Technology ...................................................Pansy Moore-Shrier Workers Comp................................................. ............................ * Section Chairs will be updated as positions are filled.

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