James C. Lang Mentoring Award Pansy Moore Shrier

Pansy Moore Shier is the 2022 recipient of the James C. Lang Mentorship Award. This award recognizes those who offer encouragement, guidance, and support to aspiring attorneys.

Pansy is a native of Tulsa and received her Juris Doctor, with honors, in 2004 from the University of Tulsa College of Law. She maintains a general litigation practice and has been involved in complex matters throughout the United States. On top of her busy practice, she also serves as chair of the TCBA Access to Justice Committee and is the new fiscal year’s chair to the CLE Committee.

Mimi Marton, Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Director of Clinic Programs for TU College of Law explained how Pansy stepped up when the University lost one of its clinical faculty to do three particularly important things:

1. Take over cases from the related clinic because the University did not have the capacity to manage them;

2. Supervise new attorneys, fellows, and students in civil litigation cases; and

3. Continue to supervise students in the upcoming semester.

Pansy has been coaching the University of Tulsa National Trial Competition Team for five years. Not only has she coached students at this extraordinarily high level, but she’s also created a program that consistently places in the top levels of regional competition. In coaching the team, Pansy goes well beyond what is needed to coach the published problem. She provides the students with further reading on advocacy, professionalism, and bias that will continue to assist them as they graduate and move into the practice of law. She provides the students with her personal contact information and allows them to contact her at any time if they have questions or need assistance, even if they leave the team. She will continue to mentor students long after their tenure on the team is complete and is always willing to lend a listening ear or help with a client problem. Once a student is “hers”, she never stops mentoring.

The TCBA is proud to have Pansy Moore-Shrier as a member and encourages everyone to give back to the University of Tulsa’s Law School and mentor a student or a young attorney. We know that better lawyers build a stronger community and Pansy is just one shining example of the TCBA membership mentoring and building up law students and young attorneys.

In person at the Bar Center with a virtual option to attend.

We hope you will come and share your thoughts and concerns on cases or legal issues. We can talk about legislation that we would like to see; factual issues you are facing on a case, CLE topics that you would like us to consider, and other topics of interest to the practice of workers compensation. Please feel free to forward this to other attorneys in the county that practice workers compensation in the event that would like to become members of both the Tulsa County Bar and this section. ~ Valerie Evans, Chair