Find Lawyers in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Mike Atkinson practices as a trial lawyer and is primarily involved in handling insurance bad faith, product liability and medical malpractice cases. Following graduation from the University of Oklahoma College of Law he was associated with a law firm, before serving as an Assistant Public Defender and later as an Assistant District Attorney in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. In 1975, he received his Master of Laws in Antitrust from the University of Texas College of Law at Austin, after which tim...

Mark Berman has approximately 30 years of varied corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions experience, both as inside counsel and in private practice. At Conner & Winters, Mr. Berman represents a wide variety of public and private companies operating primarily in the energy and construction sectors. He has served as issuer’s counsel in numerous public offerings and PIPEs transactions underwritten by national investment banking firms and involving the sale of common equity, ...

Elise Dunitz Brennan has practiced healthcare law for over 30 years. Her practice concentrates on the general representation of healthcare systems, including hospitals, pharmaceutical and device companies, and long-term care facilities. She specializes in operational and regulatory support, compliance planning, mergers and acquisitions, HIPAA, billing issues, Medicare, Antikickback and Stark, EMTALA, managed care, physician recruitment, physician medical staff issues, licensure, Certificate o...

Galen Brittingham graduated with honors from Washburn University School of Law in 1987, where he served on the Washburn Law Review. He received his M.S. degree from Central Missouri State University in 1983 and his B.S. degree from Southwest Missouri State University in 1976. Mr. Brittingham practices in the areas of insurance defense, appellate advocacy and research, insurance contract law, insurance bad faith, medical malpractice, products liability, and negligence.

Lance Bryan is a skilled litigator who represents commercial lenders, contractors, electric utilities, manufacturers and retailers. Lance has deep experience helping clients resolve contract disputes, construction claims and commercial loan defaults. Equally capable at trial, mediation, arbitration and handling appeals, Lance works closely with business owners, company officers and in-house counsel to develop and execute strategies consistent with budgets and business objectives. Lance is fre...

Aaron Bundy is a trial lawyer from Sapulpa, Oklahoma. His legal experience includes jury trials in criminal defense and parental rights cases, bench trials in divorce and child custody disputes, and appellate briefing and oral argument. His qualification for trial work is best demonstrated by his board certification for family law trials from the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Aaron is presently ranked in the exclusive Chambers Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth guide to advisors for indiv...

Teresa Meinders Burkett was born in Okarche, Oklahoma, and grew up in Norman, graduating from Norman High School in 1977. After graduating from OU's College of Nursing, she worked weekend night shifts as a critical care nurse and attended OU's College of Law during the day. She joined Boone Smith Davis Hurst & Dickman upon graduation from law school and built a successful health law practice there. In 2007, she joined Conner & Winters, LLP, founding and now co-directing the health law...

David is co-chair of the firm’s employment practice. He joined the firm upon his graduation from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1985. He practices in the area of litigation, with special emphasis on employment and energy law. He has represented clients ranging from individuals to multi-national corporations in state and federal trial courts, appellate courts, agency proceedings, and arbitrations and mediations throughout the central southwest. He has developed special expe...

Kathie Coyle has practiced in the areas of estate planning and tax-exempt organizations for more than three decades. She does complex estate planning for individuals, many of whom are charitably inclined. Ms. Coyle has a particular interest in inter-generational issues that arise in the realm of charitable giving and wealth transfer. She assists clients in effective philanthropic strategies, particularly in the area of private foundations and charitable trusts. Ms. Coyle’s clients also ...

Brett Crane has served as the Firm’s Managing Partner since 2008. His practice concentrates in the areas of corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, securities, private equity and emerging businesses, venture capital transactions, family-owned businesses and succession planning, and counseling with respect to business issues, compliance and contract negotiation. He has extensive experience representing clients in various industries and servi...

Mr. Cunningham’s practice focuses on domestic litigation and matters involving families. His career has been devoted to finding real solutions for client’s real-life problems through difficult times. Mr. Cunningham represents clients in divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, guardianship and protective order litigation at the trial and appellate levels. He is experienced in the complex issues often involved in this type of litigation, including business valuations, comp...

Bob Curry has practiced in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, securities regulation, and international business transactions for over 38 years. He has been responsible for numerous M & A transactions, including both stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, involving both public and private companies in many different industries. Mr. Curry has represented companies in their initial public offerings, follow-on public offerings and private placements of e...

Kevin Doyle has been with Pray Walker since 1987. He provides consultation concerning compliance with state and federal labor and employment laws. He also represents employers before state and federal courts and administrative agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Department of Labor (Wage and Hour Division), National Labor Relations Board, and State Labor and Human Rights Commissions.Kevin has considerable experience in providing anti-harassment training and ma...

Bill Eagleton focuses his real estate practice on a full range of transactional, development, construction and finance in Oklahoma and throughout the United States. He represents developers, lenders, restaurant chains, purchasers, sellers, investors, landlords and tenants. Bill has assisted clients in the acquisition, financing, construction, leasing and sales of all types of commercial real estate, including:Counseling owners and developers of commercial properties on legal, financial and pr...

Kathleen Egan is one of the most accomplished family law practitioners in the Midwest. After graduating from Bishop Kelley High in Tulsa, she attended the University of Oklahoma and obtained a degree in Psychology. She then studied law at the Touro Law Center on Long Island. Kathleen is known for the depth of her skill in a variety of practice areas across the jurisdictions of Arkansas and Oklahoma. She is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried bench and jury trials to verdict. A strong wr...

Isaac Ellis’s practice focuses on litigation and internal investigations. Isaac has served as trial counsel in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts. His breadth of experience in cases involving commercial and business disputes, energy, class-action defense, zoning and real estate, and other complex litigation makes him a valuable asset to any legal team. He also devotes his practice to internal investigations for corporate clients, including whistleblower complaints, per...

Melodie Freeman-Burney is a Director in the firm’s Litigation Section and has served on the firm’s Executive Committee for the past nine years. She also serves as Chair of the firm’s Information Technology Committee. She has over twenty-five years of experience in a broad range of civil litigation matters, including commercial litigation, complex tort and product liability claims, wrongful death lawsuits, class actions, shareholder’s derivative suits, construction disp...

Robert G “Hap” Fry, Jr For over 40 years, Robert G ‘Hap’ Fry, Jr., has been practicing law in Tulsa, Oklahoma, devoting 35+ years exclusively to the areas of divorce and child custody litigation in Oklahoma from his offices at Fry & Elder . He received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and received his Juris Doctor from The University of Tulsa College of Law in 1967. Upon being graduated from law school, he served as the Chief Public Defender ...

Mr. Grundy practices solely in the Divorce & Family Law area and served as the editor of the Oklahoma Bar Association Family Law Journal in 1993. He has an individual AV rating through Martindale-Hubbell; was selected a Best Lawyer in America in Family Law and Family Law Mediation; and was recognized as an Oklahoma Super Lawyer in Family Law.

Mr. Hathaway’s practice is focused primarily in the area of construction law, handling both complex litigation and non-litigation matters. He counsels owners, developers, design professionals, subcontractors and suppliers on matters ranging from contract negotiation to claims handling and litigation. In addition, Mr. Hathaway represents construction companies, energy companies and manufacturers on a variety of matters including labor and employment and general commercial litigation matt...

Tony Haynie primarily focuses his practice on the litigation and resolution of business disputes. In the course of his practice, Mr. Haynie has represented brokerage houses, banks, Fortune 500 companies, insurance companies, bankruptcy trustees, small businesses, partnerships, non profit entities and individuals in a variety of matters in state and federal courts at all levels throughout the country. Mr. Haynie practices in a number of substantive areas including contracts, business torts, tr...

Jack Ingraham has practiced in the areas of estate planning and estate administration for over 25 years. In estate planning, Mr. Ingraham represents a wide range of clients, from those with basic estate plan needs to those with very large and complex estates. In this representation, he has prepared many wills, revocable “probate avoidance” trusts, and irrevocable trusts designed for specialized uses, such as life insurance, education support and charitable purposes. He also has he...

Rich Love helps clients resolve business disputes. His expertise is in actually trying cases to conclusion before juries, judges, and arbitration panels. He began his 25 year practice assisting the firm with one of the largest jury trials in Tulsa County history. He also developed expertise in presenting broker-dealer securities cases before arbitration panels, and in resolving compliance problems before state and federal regulatory agencies. After making partner, Mr. Love left Conner & W...

Steve McGrath has practiced in the employee benefits and executive compensation area since the enactment of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974. Mr. McGrath has served as the Firm's employee benefit and executive compensation practice leader for over 15 years. Prior to joining Conner & Winters, he served in a similar capacity for other law firms. Mr. McGrath advises large public corporations, privately held entities, colleges, universities, governmental bodies and tax exempt orga...

Robert J. Melgaard is a partner in the Corporate and Securities practice group. Mr. Melgaard has over 30 years of extensive experience representing issuers in the areas of public and private securities offerings of debt and equity, including initial public offerings, Rule 144A/Reg. S offerings and shelf registrations, compliance with public company reporting and proxy solicitation requirements, the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts, public disclosure obligations, corporate governance, stock ...

Mr. Metcalf is an accomplished construction lawyer with more than 25 years of experience successfully representing clients in all aspects of construction law and litigation. Whether dealing with the day-to-day legal issues that arise in a client’s business, or serving as an effective client advocate in the periodic disputes that clients face, Mr. Metcalf serves as both a trusted advisor and an effective litigator for his clients. Mr. Metcalf’s legal practice follows a successful t...

Lynnwood R. Moore, Jr., is a partner in the law firm of Conner & Winters, LLP, which he joined in 1971. He is currently head of the Corporate and Securities Group of his firm. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics in 1967 from Princeton University and a Juris Doctorate in 1970 from the University of Oklahoma. At the University of Oklahoma, he was a member of the Order of Coif and a member of the Board of Editors of the University of Oklahoma Law Review. He is a member of the T...

Kevin Redwine is a partner of Conner & Winters, LLP where he is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Group. He concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, financings, oil and gas transactions and general corporate matters. Mr. Redwine has extensive experience representing buyers and sellers in negotiated acquisitions and dispositions, including stock transactions, asset purchases and mergers. His general corporate experience includes venture capital financings,...

Ryan Sacra practices in the areas of Energy (both E&P and Midstream) and Corporate and Securities. He has assisted companies ranging from privately-held businesses to Fortune 500 companies with a variety of matters, including business formation and planning, joint ventures, public and private offerings of securities, private equity funding, securities regulation and compliance, and acquisitions and dispositions. He has also represented both sponsors and conflicts committees in connection ...

Paige Shelton is a litigator whose practice ranges from commercial and contract litigation to tort litigation. Ms. Shelton also provides consultation and representation to insurance companies, rental car companies, and other insurers. She has experience in both state and federal courts on matters including claims for negligence, products liability, healthcare liability, breach of contract, breach of warranty, fraud, and wrongful death. Publications Contributor to the Oklahoma Chapter of The C...

Beverly Smith has practiced law in Tulsa for over 25 years. Her professional focus is representing publicly owned companies in commercial real estate transactions, handling a broad range of business transactions, (including ranching and mining operations and regional telephone company operations), and helping individuals and families with their estate planning and related probate and trust administration matters. She also supervises many guardianship cases for the firm’s clients. Experi...

Don Smith joined Pray Walker in 1983 and has been a Shareholder with the Firm since 1990. Practicing in the areas of energy law, environmental law and title examination law, his primary emphasis is in energy transactions, principally representing oil and gas producers and operators in the purchase and sale of exploration and production assets, gathering and other midstream properties, and energy-related surface facilities. Don has negotiated, coordinated and closed numerous energy transaction...

Eric S. Smith regularly advises clients regarding the design and implementation of all types of retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, 457(b) plans and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. He also advises clients regarding the design and management of welfare benefit programs, including health plans and cafeteria plans. He assists clients with day-to-day administrative, nondiscrimination and fiduciary issues, including operational and reporting corrections under the Inte...

Gentra Sorem has practiced for over 30 years in all areas of real estate, banking and finance, including commercial leasing, real property acquisition and development, commercial lending, real estate finance, energy lending, asset-based lending (including credit card receivable securitization), structured credit and loan workouts. Ms. Sorem has represented all aspects and view points in the financial and real estate markets (both lenders and borrowers, buyers and sellers, landlords and tenant...

William H. Spitler is a trial lawyer who has tried and litigated cases in several areas of law, including construction, labor and employment, oil and gas, class action defense, sales and leasing disputes, antitrust defense, commercial contract disputes, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Mr. Spitler’s diverse and active litigation practice has provided him the opportunity to present cases before numerous state and federal court judges and appeal panels across the county. Mr. Spitler&rs...

Jason Taylor practices in the litigation group with particular emphasis in the areas of commercial litigation, class action litigation, securities regulation and labor and employment law. Mr. Taylor focuses his practice on helping clients solve disputes in all phases of litigation from negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration and trial in both federal and state court. Mr. Taylor has extensive experience in the representation of midstream oil and gas companies, airli...

Tim Trump’s primary areas of practice include bankruptcy, commercial litigation, insurance defense and collections. In over 33 years of practicing law, Mr. Trump has handled many complex and simple bankruptcy cases. He has dual board certification by The American Board of Bankruptcy Certification in business and consumer bankruptcy law. He represents both debtors and creditors. He has been involved in both local cases and large national cases. He is a frequent continuing legal education...

Andy Turner has more than 25 years of experience in commercial bankruptcy cases involving oil & gas, real estate, telecommunications, medical services, trucking and many other industries, representing large secured and unsecured creditors, debtors in possession, trustees and committees. Mr. Turner also handles commercial dispute resolution, with a wide range of experience in contract disputes, creditors’ rights, commercial fraud, embezzlement, construction and oil & gas liens, and com...

Having developed a successful high school speech and debate program, Randall Vaughan left education to pursue a career as a trial lawyer, a goal that guided his law school education and decision to join Pray Walker in 1985. Randall has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts, and written legal briefs and presented oral arguments at the appellate level. He has also served as an advocate for clients in private arbitrations. As a counselor, he assists large companies in managing their n...

Nancy Vaughn practices in the area of employment law. Ms. Vaughn regularly provides advice to employers on offer letters, employment contracts, non-compete and non-solicitation provisions, discipline, terminations, issues relating to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, testing for drugs and alcohol in the workplace, and other employment issues. She prepares separation agreements and releases for single and group terminations, taking into consideration the...