APRIL 2026 | 77 THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL Kayli L. Gillespie has joined the Oklahoma City office of Fox Rothschild as counsel in the Litigation Department. She practices in the areas of oil and gas and energy business law. She handles disputes surrounding surface and subsurface damage claims, as well as claims involving contractual obligations, and analyzes Production Revenue Standards Act claims for clients to determine possible liability. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Gillespie was an attorney at Elias, Books, Brown & Nelson. She serves on the boards of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, the Institute of Energy Law and the Casady School Alumni Association. She received her J.D. from the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. Mike Atkinson has joined the Tulsa law firm of Jayne Peters McVicker Burke Askew & Parker as of counsel. After graduating from the OU College of Law, he practiced criminal law and obtained his LL.M. in antitrust from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He has served as an adjunct professor at the TU College of Law, faculty at the Insurance Counsel Trial Academy, state chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers and state chair for the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is primarily involved in handling commercial litigation and cases involving defective products and insurance bad faith. Kelsey T. Pierce has been appointed as a director at the law firm of Barber & Bartz. Mr. Pierce has been with the firm since 2008 and has been a shareholder since 2016. He practices in all areas of commercial law, with a primary focus on real estate transactions. Mr. Pierce’s practice also focuses on business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business organizations and other matters involving real estate, zoning and land use. Adrienne Cash and Stephanie Mitchell have been elected shareholders at the Tulsa law firm of Barber & Bartz. Ms. Cash, a trial attorney, has been with the firm for 10 years and represents individuals, corporations and local and family-owned businesses in labor and employment, complex commercial, real estate and construction litigation. She dedicates a significant portion of her practice to litigating and mediating complex commercial litigation. Ms. Mitchell has practiced in the areas of estate planning, guardianship, probate and trusts for more than 13 years. While at Barber & Bartz for the past seven years and while developing her elder law practice, she has focused on the areas of special needs and Medicaid planning but also represents clients in litigation and mediation in contested matters in those areas. AT THE PODIUM Paul R. Foster presented “Dynamic Interactive Question and Answer” on a panel of banking regulators from the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the Oklahoma Banking Department during the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma Winter Leadership Retreat in Palm Springs, California. He practices at Paul Foster Law Offices PC in Norman.
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