Oklahoma Bar Journal
Oklahoma Bar Journal Volunteer Your Legal Expertise To Support America’s Heroes Make a difference this Veterans Day by volunteering to provide pro bono legal services to those who serve our nation and our communities every day. Volunteer registration is now open! Heroes Day | Nov. 11 | Oklahoma City The inaugural Heroes Day event, planned…
Read more...From the Executive Director | A Season To Refocus
Oklahoma Bar Journal From the Executive Director | A Season To Refocus: The End of Summer’s Hidden Opportunities By Janet Johnson As summer prepares to leave us behind, lawyers have a valuable opportunity to do more than return to full calendars and familiar routines. I challenge you to pause, reassess, and approach the remainder of…
Read more...The Back Page | Retirement – What’s That?
Oklahoma Bar Journal The Back Page | Retirement – What’s That? By Dan Crawford After decades of depositions, deadlines, and the occasional courtroom battle, many attorneys imagine retirement as a long, quiet exhale. But for most lawyers, the instinct to analyze, advocate, and serve never truly goes away. In fact, retirement often becomes the perfect…
Read more...The Use and Abuse of Hearsay in Family Law Matters
Oklahoma Bar Journal The Use and Abuse of Hearsay in Family Law Matters By Jessica Tueller and Monica Dionisio In November 2025, 12 O.S. §2803.3 entered into effect, creating an exception to the hearsay rule for statements pertaining to domestic abuse.[1] Specifically, this section provides: A statement that purports to narrate, describe, report, or explain…
Read more...What Trustees Need To Know About Oklahoma’s New Trust Code: Key Changes and Practical Applications
Oklahoma Bar Journal What Trustees Need To Know About Oklahoma’s New Trust Code: Key Changes and Practical Applications By Amanda Swain Effective Nov. 1, 2025, Oklahoma enacted a modified version of the Uniform Trust Code (OUTC), significantly reshaping the legal landscape for trust administration in the state.[1] Unlike many legislative changes, the OUTC applies not…
Read more...From the Chief Justice
Oklahoma Bar Journal From the Chief Justice | America’s 250th Anniversary By Chief Justice Dustin P. Rowe On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson’s powerful words became the blueprint of America’s promise: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…
Read more...Oklahoma Bar Journal Big Changes Ahead for OBA CLE: We Listened, and We’re Delivering By Gigi McCormick Over the past year, the CLE Department has been listening closely to our members. We’re excited to share two changes that reflect that feedback, along with a straightforward update on pricing. LIVE CHAT IS COMING TO LIVE WEBCASTS One of the…
Read more...Oklahoma Bar Journal Objective Versus Subjective Standards in Negligence Per Se How To Craft Viable Negligence Per Se Claims and How To Challenge Improper Claims By William “Alex” Orr Negligence per se is often introduced to law students as a seemingly straightforward doctrine: when a defendant violates a statute, liability for negligence may follow. Yet…
Read more...Reservation Realities
Oklahoma Bar Journal Reservation Realities: Oklahoma Taxation of Tribal Members Post-McGirt Under Stroble and New Challenges to Tribal Sovereignty Including Hunting and Fishing Regulation By Jeff D. Trevillion Jr. and Mike McBride III The 2025 case of Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission[i] presents a textbook example of what happens when state tax authority collides with…
Read more...Tax Stamp as Drug Law in Action
Oklahoma Bar Journal Tax Stamp as Drug Law in Action By Kat Albrecht, Corey Boyd, Samuel Galoob and Stephen Galoob Prosecutorial charging “is where American criminal law becomes operative.”[1] This article examines prosecutorial charging by focusing on a specific offense in Oklahoma – Possession of a Controlled Substance Without a Tax Stamp (colloquially called Tax…
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