Sandra Day O’Connor Award Presented to TCBA Street Law Committee

The BruntonWill 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 made the commitment and sacrifice to help educate and instruct attorneys in the ever changing world of law. The Tulsa County Bar Foundation is proud to present the 2022 award to Sabah Khalaf. Sabah is a trial lawyer whose practice is focuses on DUI defense and major crimes in federal, state, tribal, and municipal criminal courts from pre-filing investigation to trial. He effectively communicates with his clients, prosecutors, and other agents to quickly minimize the stress and disruption a criminal case can be and he applies that same tenacity to coordinating quality and information continuing legal education to attorneys and paralegals. One of this awards namesake, Paul Brunton, retired in 2017 and without prompt, Sabah stepped into providing the TCBA’s Annual Criminal Law Hodgepodge CLE. This is a full day of CLE with topics ranging from McGirt to DUI’s and Sabah continuously finds great speakers to address timely topics. Sabah is also a member of the TCBA Bench & Bar Committee and assisted with coordinating the return of the Brown Bag CLE series at the Tulsa County Courthouse. “Sabah organized an informative and insightful CLE, Criminal Law Hodgepodge, in December 2021 amid COVID restrictions. I do not practice criminal law but there was crossover appeal for civil practitioners, particularly concerning an overview of McGirt. The day long presentation was very well organized and planned” shares TCBA member and Tulsa attorney Mary Bundren. The TCBF greatly appreciates all the efforts Sabah takes keep on top of the continuous changes in the law and that he shares that knowledge with the members of the Tulsa County Bar Association.