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Zach Allen is a director in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Since 1988, Mr. Allen has concentrated his practice in commercial real estate lending, leasing, development and sales transactions, in which he represents a diverse range of clients, inluding developers, purchasers, owners, tenants and lenders. He is licensed and actively practices in both Oklahoma and Texas and regularly handles multi-state matters. He is board-certified in Commercial Real Estate Law by the Texas Board ...
Zane Anderson is a director in the business department for the firm’s Oklahoma City office. His primary focus includes corporate, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, banking and financial institutions and securities transactions. Zane received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Finance, with a minor in Accounting from Oklahoma State University in 2009, and his Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2012, where he served as a s...
Cindy L. Andrews serves as a director in the Firm’s Oklahoma City office. A practitioner since 1994, Cindy brings to Crowe & Dunlevy experience in several areas of law, including employee benefits, trusts and estates, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, taxation, and partnership. A certified public accountant (inactive), Cindy holds several licenses to practice law, including the U.S. District Court (Western District of Oklahoma) and the U.S. Tax Court. Recognized in her field, ...
Mark Bialick began practicing law in 1981. He has been admitted to practice before the U. S. District Court: Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, U. S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit as well as the U. S. Supreme Court. Over the course of his 30 year career he has litigated and tried to verdict several of the state's seminal cases in the area of insurance law and the duty of good faith and fair dealing, as well as cases involving catastrophic injuries and wrongful death. His p...
Michael Bowling has more than a decade of legal and executive experience advising clients regarding human resources best practices. With an extensive background in guiding management and training leaders and staff, Michael provides counsel to employers on implementing employment practices, policies and procedures with an eye toward improving employee performance, retaining employees and avoiding liability. As a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office, his practice focuses on advisin...
Gary A. Bryant is a director in the Oklahoma City office of Crowe & Dunlevy. Gary’s primary practice area involves commercial banking and litigation for financial institutions. As a member of the firm’s Banking & Financial Institutions practice group, Gary’s legal practice covers a broad range of finance matters, with a focus on the representation of lenders and corporate borrowers. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the representation of lenders in their c...
Tanya Bryant is a director based in the Oklahoma City office of Crowe & Dunlevy. She exclusively represents management in employment related matters such as harassment and discrimination claims under Title VII, the Age Discrimination and Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), whistleblower claims, negligent hiring, supervision and retention and retaliatory discharge. Tanya also handles Okl...
LeAnne Burnett serves as a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. She is an experienced general litigation and trial lawyer who has focused her practice in energy and environmental litigation and regulation. LeAnne has published numerous works related to her field of practice. She served as an editor and co-author for the Oklahoma Environmental Law Handbook published by the Oklahoma Bar Association. In addition, LeAnne has taught many environmental law seminars for the Oklahoma an...
Joshua Burns is a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. He is a litigator experienced in industries including energy, healthcare and financial services. With nearly a decade of experience in complex commercial litigation, Joshua is licensed to practice in Oklahoma, New York and Illinois, in addition to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York and Northern District of Illinois. Joshua earned a Juris Doctor from the University of ...
Adam W. Childers is a director at Crowe & Dunlevy, and serves as chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science (1997) and his Juris Doctor degree (2000), both with honors, from the University of Oklahoma. He also attended the Summer Program at the Queens College at Oxford University in Oxford, England. Adam is currently an Administrative Law Judge at the Oklahoma Department of Labor and a member of Phi Beta Ka...
Andrew Coats is a director at Crowe & Dunlevy’s Oklahoma City office. He also serves as Dean Emeritus and professor of law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, in addition to Director Emeritus of the university’s Law Center. An expert in litigation and trial, product liability and white collar crime laws, Andrew’s legal career is highlighted by successfully arguing before the Supreme Court for the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia in their landmark case again...
Rodney Cook has more than 38 years of experience in all areas of tort litigation including product liability, fraternity, insurance and warranty law. A director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office, Rodney is a member of the Insurance, Litigation & Trial and Product Liability Practice Groups where he represents product manufacturers and insurers in personal injury, warranty and property damage matters. Focusing his practice in the defense of general civil litigation cases, Rodney assi...
Leonard Court is a graduate of Oklahoma State University (B.A., 1969) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1972). He joined the firm in 1972. He served as a J.A.G. in the U.S. Air Force from 1973 to 1977, when he returned to Crowe & Dunlevy. Leonard is a member and past chairman of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group which he established. Leonard has served as a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Committee since 1997. In 1999, he was appointed chai...
J. Dillon Curran has a broad experience base gained through hands on representation of financial institutions and providers of financial products. His practice areas include business litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, energy and commercial transactions. Mr. Curran also regularly represents companies and individuals in the real estate, oil and gas and transportation industries. At this early stage in his career, Mr. Curran already has structured, negotiated and closed numerous complex inter-...
Bruce W. Day serves as the co-chair of the Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Practice Group. He has a national practice representing and advising a variety of businesses, broker-dealer firms, investment advisors and securities agents in sales practice, employment, regulatory and litigation matters. He also represents individuals who have been the victims of Elder Abuse as well as those who have been defrauded by their stock brokers or investment advisors. As a member of the fir...
Gary W. Derrick specializes in corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, ’34 Act reporting, private equity and debt financing, venture capital financing, business formation and restructuring, corporate governance, and general business contracts. His clients are in oil and gas, technology, hospitality, agriculture, manufacturing, retail and professional services.
David Donchin’s litigation practice involves Insurance Law, Complex Litigation, Personal Injury Law, Products Liability, Employment Law, Environmental Law and Medical Malpractice. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Donchin has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law for Trial Practice, and as a member of the Faculty of the Southern Region of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Donchin was elected into the American College of Trial Lawyers,...
Gerald E. Durbin, II, began his legal career in 1971 and has been admitted to practice in all State and Federal Courts in Oklahoma, as well as the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court. Over the past over 45 years, his practice has concentrated in the area of complex civil litigation. He has represented many national insurers and represented individuals in obtaining some of the most significant verdicts rendered in Oklahoma. His successful career has been recognized by me...
David has significant trial experience with complex commercial, intellectual property, trust and estates, tax, energy, and environmental litigation matters in both state and federal courts. He has successfully tried to verdict complex litigation matters in state and federal courts, and under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. He has successfully argued before state and federal appellate courts. In addition, he has experience with matters before state and federal administrative...
Harvey Ellis’ practice involves complex procedural issues in addition to a litigation portfolio which focuses on litigation requirements and strategy, business disputes of numerous kinds, constitutional issues, and legal ethics. In conjunction with his civil litigation practice, Harvey has written extensively on practice and procedure affecting Oklahoma practitioners in both state and federal courts. His work includes co-authoring two major Oklahoma procedural treatises and numerous leg...
With more than 50 years of professional experience, Allen D. Evans focuses his practice in trusts and estates, and tax. Mr. Evans serves as an advisory director in the Firm’s Oklahoma City office. His extensive knowledge is reflected in his lectures at various institutions on estate planning and estate administration. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Lecturer at various institutes and programs on estate planning and estate administration Former Regent, American Colle...
Mr. Fielden is a Director of the firm and has been engaged in the active practice of law for more than 40 years. He has broad experience in all areas of litigation, including insurance, labor and employment, workers’ compensation and international law with a concentrated practice on insurance defense, including ERISA. He also has broad experience and expertise in alternative dispute resolution, related to all types of litigation and serves as a professional mediator. In addition to his ...
Jordan K. Field is a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. His areas of practice encompass Aviation & Commercial Space, Corporate & Securities, Employee Benefits & ERISA, Healthcare, and Taxation, with a particular emphasis in Taxation. His tax practice includes both tax planning and tax controversy matters relating to federal and state income taxes for entities and individuals, as well as estate and gift tax planning and tax exempt entity matters. Jordan is a 2008 gr...
Eric S. Fisher is a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. He has spent his career focused on business creation and development, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, operational and compliance matters, and assisting clients grow and manage their businesses. Clients value and rely on Eric for his pragmatic and business-oriented advice. Eric primarily serves as outside general counsel to closely held companies, family businesses, and entrepreneurs and their early stage and emergi...
Laura Brookins Fleet is an attorney with the Oklahoma City office of Crowe & Dunlevy and has been a registered lobbyist in Oklahoma since 2001. Laura’s primary practice focuses on healthcare, administrative and insurance law. As a member of the firm’s Healthcare and Administrative & Regulatory Practice Groups, her practice covers a broad range of administrative and regulatory matters for companies and agencies. Prior to joining Crowe & Dunlevy, she spent five years as ...
Richard C. Ford is an attorney with the Oklahoma City office of Crowe & Dunlevy. He has vast experience in many areas of the law, including appellate, insurance, litigation and trial, product liability, environmental, toxic torts, telecommunications and class actions. Within more than 30 years of legal experience, Richard has argued cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as various U.S. District Courts. Richard advocated as associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel...
Sam Fulkerson’s practice is focused on the representation of management in all phases of the employment relationship, including litigation before federal and state courts, regulatory and administrative agencies, and in arbitration matters. He also handles litigation matters involving the enforcement of non-competition and confidentiality agreements, breach of employment contracts, handbook and personnel policy violations, wage and hour disputes, and other disputes arising out of the emp...
John Funk is a commercial transaction attorney whose practice is primarily focused on commercial lending, real estate, acquisitions, and business transactions. He has substantial experience in representing financial institutions in commercial lending transactions of all types, including loans related to income producing properties, real estate development and construction, hospitals and health care businesses, farm and ranch including cattle feeding, asset based lending, and oil and gas. Mr. ...
Preston G. Gaddis II (Gil) is an advisory director at the firm’s Oklahoma City office, where he joined in 1965. Preston graduated from the University of Oklahoma, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1962. He served in the Office of the Army Judge Advocate General in Washington, D.C. from 1963 to 1965. He also attended Georgetown University and received a Master of Laws degree in 1965. Preston has spoken on various topics involving aircraft financing at ...
Over 30 years representing defendants in business and complex litigation, including commercial and employment disputes, securities, class action and antitrust cases. Has lectured in the areas of trial practice, civil procedure, and insurance law. Former President of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, 2007-08.
Jared Giddens is a unique combination of seasoned business litigator and accomplished transactional attorney whose practice spans a wide range of industries including banking, energy, construction and transportation. He has been lead counsel in diverse matters ranging from business bankruptcies to collective action wage & hour cases to complex real estate finance deals. Local, regional and national business leaders and financial institutions rely on his expert guidance in crisis managemen...
Jimmy Goodman is a senior trial attorney and past president at Crowe & Dunlevy. Since 1973, Jimmy has specialized in high-stakes business litigation, product claims and disputes involving tribal compacts, economic development, gaming enterprises and federal Indian law. Jimmy has tried cases before state, federal, bankruptcy and tribal courts representing individuals, small businesses and Native American Nations along with Fortune 500 companies. Jimmy recently represented Indian Nations in...
Kevin Gordon is a director of Crowe & Dunlevy having joined the firm in 1984. He is the firm’s immediate past president and CEO, and now serves as chair of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group as well as the firm’s E-Discovery and healthcare litigation teams. Kevin is also past chair of the Insurance and Administrative & Regulatory Practice Groups. He has more than 35 years’ experience representing businesses in a wide range of complex litigation, arbitration an...
John Griffin has practiced in the areas of energy, environmental and natural resources litigation for more than 40 years. He has extensive experience representing major oil companies and independent oil and gas producers in multi-state class action litigation, complex commercial litigation and environmental litigation. His energy law cases have involved various disputes over royalty payments, gas purchase contracts, gas processing agreements, mineral conveyances, construction and operating ag...
Educated, experienced, and distinguished, Terry R. Hanna serves of counsel for Crowe & Dunlevy in Oklahoma City. Recognized as a key practitioner in The Best Lawyers in America for tax law, Mr. Hanna focuses his practice areas on taxation, as well as on trusts and estates laws. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Tax Law) Special Lecturer in Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1978 — 1980 Oklahoma Bar Association, Taxation Section (President, 1977) Certified Public Accoun...
Joel Harmon is a director in Crowe & Dunlevy’s Oklahoma City office and co-chair of the firm’s Banking & Financial Institutions Practice Group. He focuses his practice in commercial and banking law, lending transactions, workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy litigation, creditor’s rights law and defense of financial institutions. His representation of creditors presently includes national banking associations and state-chartered banks as well as industrial concerns...
Anthony Hendricks serves as a director in the Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Litigation & Trial, Criminal Defense, Compliance & Investigations and Administrative & Regulatory Practice Groups for the firm’s Oklahoma City office. Anthony has focused his practice in environmental compliance, regulatory permitting and litigation. He frequently represents clients in environmental matters bef...
For more than thirty years, Mr. Hiltgen has focused his practice in the areas of products liability defense, insurance defense, commercial litigation, and transportation litigation. He continues to add to that experience through the representation of companies of consumer goods and products, manufacturing industries and the insurance market. Mr. Hiltgen and his firm have represented a number of national and international corporations, serving as national, regional, and local trial counsel. Mr...
William H. Hoch is a director at Crowe & Dunlevy where he has practiced since 1995. He splits his time primarily between the Oklahoma City and Dallas/Ft. Worth offices. Will is a graduate of The Catholic University of America and concentrates his practice in the areas of creditor’s rights, bankruptcy, receiverships, oil and gas litigation, will and trusts litigation, and foreclosure, as well as general commercial litigation. Will often represents clients in the oil and gas, banking,...
Kari Hoffhines is a director in Crowe & Dunlevy’s Oklahoma City office and a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Banking & Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Her practice incorporates a broad range of commercial real estate transactions including acquisitions and sales, secured financing, office, retail and agricultural leasing, land use and development, as well as various other aspects of real estate and banking law. Kari has experience with institutional financing ...
Alison Howard is a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office and chair of the Employee Benefits & ERISA practice group. She has practiced law for more than 15 years, largely in the employee benefits and health care law arenas. Alison provides clients legal advice and document drafting services and also handles complex civil litigation and appeals. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and all federal and state district ...
Clifford Hudson serves of counsel in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. As former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sonic Corp., and as a member of the Corporate & Securities Practice Group, Cliff’s nearly four decades of legal and business experience offers clients an array of business advisory counsel regarding corporate governance, board consulting, business transactions and franchising operations, among other corporate matters. In addition to leading the publicly held Sonic C...
Eric is a partner in the firm's Oklahoma City office and Editor in Chief of CounselorLibrary.com's Spot Delivery publication. He assists national and state banks, savings associations, credit unions, mortgage bankers, other licensed lenders, motor vehicles dealers and automotive finance companies in the development and maintenance of nationwide consumer mortgage and automobile finance programs; online motor vehicle sales programs; litigation funding programs; and electronic payment programs. ...
Lauren Johnson is an associate in the Oklahoma City office of Crowe & Dunlevy. Lauren’s areas of practice include wealth planning, tax-exempt organizations, trusts and estates and taxation. She is a member of the firm’s Private Wealth & Closely Held Business and Taxation Practice Groups. Lauren earned her Juris Doctor from Boston University’s School of Law, graduating cum laude. While attending law school she served as a member of the American Journal of Law & Me...
Robert M. Johnson serves of counsel for Crowe & Dunlevy in Oklahoma City. He brings to the Firm four decades of practitioner experience, as well as experience on contracts and real estate laws. Mr. Johnson has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for real estate law, Who’s Who in Real Estate, and Who’s Who in the World. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law (J.D., 1967), Mr. Johnson has been a special lecturer in the area of real estate contracts as...
Bob Kalsu has concentrated his career in the practice of commercial and business law, aviation title, finance and regulatory law and related matters, most recently of which is the Cape Town Convention. He has counseled parties from a myriad of sectors in the aviation industry around the world including air carriers, air cargo companies, banks, aircraft and engine financing and leasing companies, and other lending institutions, as well as aircraft manufacturers and other law firms. Such counse...
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