The nomination period for the OBA Board of Governors is now open. Elections will be held for president-elect (one-year term, automatically becomes president following year) and vice president (one-year term) as well as representatives for districts two, eight, nine and a statewide at-large representative (three-year terms each). See all the…

The August bar journal is available. Articles relating to access to justice include tips on providing limited scope services, work of the Access to Justice Commission and more, plus tax legislation updates. Check your mailbox or read it online.

Attorneys James D. Bland of McAlester and David L. Butler of Lawton have been elected by the Oklahoma Bar Association members to six-year terms on the state Judicial Nominating Commission. District 3 Mr. Bland will represent District 3, comprised of Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton, Garvin, Haskell, Hughes, Jefferson,…

UPDATE: June 19, 2019 – Cherokee, LeFlore, Noble and Nowata counties have been added for Oklahomans to receive free legal advice. Oklahoma lawyers are ready to lend a hand to survivors of the recent storms by offering no-cost, disaster-related legal advice.  Through the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Disaster Relief program and…

The Oklahoma Bar Association, together with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma (LASO) and Oklahoma Indian Legal Services (OILS), in a partnership with the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, is stepping forward to provide free legal advice to survivors of recent storms and flooding that began May 7. Counties designated…

By Holly Cinocca My husband and I practiced law in Tulsa for 17 years, when my husband decided to become a Methodist minister. His first assignment was to a couple of small churches in southeastern Oklahoma. Having practiced civil litigation in Tulsa my entire career, I knew it was not going to be easy to…