Oklahoma Super Lawyers Articles

Five attorneys under 40 discuss student debt, the Great Recession, and the good fortune that got them here

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cara Nicklas is helping fight corruption

Dan Webber spent his first seven years in the U.S. attorney’s office

Garvin Isaacs on a career-turning case and client

The Choctaw Nation’s Michael Burrage makes opioid producers pay

Lessons Roberta Fields learned as a corrections officer

Lorena Rivas on her week at the Karnes detention facility

Local Counsel with Rodney K. Hunsinger II

John Kenney knows how to speak to juries—and country music fans, too

The community’s need can be overwhelming, but Rachel Gusman just keeps chipping away

The Tulsa attorney helped launch a hands-on trial-advocacy program

Amy D. White dreams of horse farms—and another conversation with her grandparents

Though she keeps some ‘fairy dust’ on hand, her real power lies in listening

Doug Sorocco helped turn Dunlap Codding’s law office into a free community-event space

Taking part in Gerry Spence’s first Trial Lawyer’s College brought the human side back to David Humphreys’ practice

The business litigator turns on the inspiration both in front of juries and on the pages of her novels

Why Lauren Hanna never gets a sunburned nose

The many trials (and few tribulations) of George Corbyn

When J. Angela Ables worked for the ‘Little Giant from Little Dixie’

Leslie V. Batchelor makes economic development partnerships happen

Lisa and David Riggs devote much of their time to protecting the environment

The Edmond attorney on Strom Thurmond, jury clothing etiquette and the joy of being hyper-organize

The Tulsa lawyer tells us what’s good in the neighborhood

For environmental lawyer and guardian ad litem LeAnne Burnett, it’s not about competition; it’s about relationships

Personal injury attorney Terry West finds the missing link

Tulsa litigator Joe Farris’ clients range from laid-off employees to activists bent on scuttling a nuclear power plant

Oklahoma City’s Linda Scoggins is just what the doctor ordered for her health-care industry clientele

Drew Neville does his homework. And then he does it again

Is intellectual property law a boys’ club? Ask Tulsa’s Rachel Blue

Widowed at 28, Judy Hamilton Morse battled her grief by going to law school. Now she’s one of Oklahoma City’s leading litigators

Pat Cremin took a chance on law school after a career in journalism

Reggie Whitten’s straightforward style results in multimillion-dollar verdicts against the kinds of companies he used to defend

Teresa Meinders Burkett’s experiences as a nurse inform her current role as partner at Conner & Winters, where she directs the firm’s health care practice group. She talks with Super Lawyers about why her practice is one of the most interesting areas of law, why we shouldn’t be afraid of consolidated medical records and why she’s such a happy lawyer.

Karen Long aims to keep school districts compliant with Title IX

Transactional business lawyer Adam Marshall knows business and brews

Sidney G. Dunagan on the importance of writing, how Vietnam changed his career path, and the question you can’t ask in a deposition

The unassuming Frank Hill closes multimillion-dollar deals and has helped bring the NBA to OKC … twice 

Linda Crook Martin tends to get what she wants

Who’s the boss? Three area lawyers told us how they turned the answer into “I am.” They left other legal jobs—or never really had them to begin with—and mustered up the courage to go it alone. Their firms are dreams realized, but entrepreneurship also means figuring out accounts payable

James M. Sturdivant looks back on almost 50 years with GableGotwals and the $5,000 verdict that remains his favorite case

Whether he's prosecuting terrorists or defending executives, Patrick M. Ryan keeps things classy        

Mary Quinn Cooper, born trial lawyer        

Moura A. J. Robertson's kinder, gentler family law practice        

From social worker to health care lawyer, Elise Dunitz Brennan is all about healing        

Terry Tippens practices law so he can tend to his ranch       

When IP attorney John Kenney isn’t protecting his clients’ inventions, he’s coming up with his own

Clark Brewster isn’t afraid to kick up some dust for his clients

After D. Kent Meyers saw the plight of children in the Oklahoma court system, he knew he had to help

Robert H. Alexander Jr. credits his success to the struggles of his ancestors; now he pays it forward

Elaine Turner brings home the gold for Special Olympians

James C.T. Hardwick works with the stuff that moves the world

R. Thomas Seymour couldn’t make up for the 14 years Arvin McGee spent in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. But Seymour did help clear his name and win $12.3 million from the system that failed him

Stephen Jones invited controversy when he decided to represent Timothy McVeigh in 1995. And he isn’t done with the case yet.

Oliver Howard and his “big tent” theology

Purse-snatchers beware: Erin Donovan is on the case