Crowe & Dunlevy, founded in 1902, is the largest and one of the oldest law firms in Oklahoma. The Firm was founded in Oklahoma City and has enjoyed steady and consistent growth, expanding in October of 1989 to include an office in Tulsa and September of 1991 to include an office in Norman. Crowe & Dunlevy is the Oklahoma member of Lex Mundi, an international association of 146 independent law firms, which provides contacts and relationships with leading law firms throughout the world.

Crowe & Dunlevy is organized as a professional corporation and is engaged in most areas of the practice of law. The Firm serves clients ranging from individuals to small businesses to large national and multi-national corporations. The diversity of legal representations within the Firm is underscored by the fact that the Firm's largest client represents less than five percent of its annual fee income.

The Firm is committed to a philosophy of providing on a timely basis high quality legal services to its clients at a reasonable cost. The Firm strives to maintain state of the art library, administrative and other services conducive to the realization of this objective. The Firm has consistently avoided the practice of staffing its cases in a manner in which lawyers provide unnecessary services at unnecessary expense to its clients.

Due to the wide range of experience, the Firm is able to respond to clients with its ability to assemble a legal team with the availability of knowledge and expertise necessary to maximize effective representation. This philosophy encourages timely solutions to client needs in a practical problem-solving environment and at a reasonable cost.

Crowe & Dunlevy is proud to recognize the leadership achievements of its members, both past and present, including: Presidents of the American, Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Tulsa County and Cleveland County Bar Associations; President of the National Health Lawyers Association; President of the American College of Trial Lawyers; President of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys; Trustee of the United States Supreme Court Historical Society; Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, for the 10th Circuit; United States District Judge; Oklahoma Court of Appeals Judge; United States Tax Court Judge; United States Magistrate Judge; United States Attorneys; District Attorneys; United States Ambassador; Deputy Attorney General of the United States; Former Lead and Associate Counsels of the Office of Independent Counsel; Chair of the Murrah Federal Building Memorial Task Force, the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Trust; White House Fellow; Deans of the University of Oklahoma College of Law; Mayors; State Representative; Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner; Members of the Boards of Regents for major state universities, and numerous listings in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World and The Best Lawyers in America.

Statement of Practice

General Practice. Litigation of all types in both state and federal court. All types of alternative dispute resolution methodologies. Administrative Law, Antitrust, Appellate, Aviation, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights, Business Organizations, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Transactions, Consumer Credit, Corporate and Securities Finance, Environmental, ERISA, Estates and Trusts, Family Law, Financial Institutions and Finance, Franchising and Distribution, Healthcare, Initiative Petition, Insurance Litigation and Regulation, Intellectual Property and Technology, International Business, Labor and Employment, Medicare/Medicaid Fraud and Abuse, Medical Malpractice Defense, Mergers and Acquisitions, Oil and Gas, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Related Matters, Products Liability, Public Finance, School Law, Small Business and Venture Capital, Taxation, White Collar Crime.

Representative Clients:

Atlantic Richfield Co.
Aetna Life Insurance Co.
AmCare
American National Insurance Co.
American Airlines, Inc.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
Armstrong World Industries
ASC Machine Tools, Inc.
BancFirst
Bank of America, N.A.
Bank of Oklahoma, N.A.
Bank One, Oklahoma, N.A.
Bechtel Group, Inc.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Oklahoma
The Boeing Company
Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company
BP/Amoco Corporation
Buford Properties, Inc.
Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.
Chevron Texaco U.S.A., Inc.
CHUBB Executive Risk Insurance
Commonwealth Life Insurance Company
Concentra
Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Conoco, Inc.
Dollar Systems, Inc.
Dow Corning Corporation
Equitable Life Assurance Co. (N.Y.)
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Flint Industries, Inc.
Ford Motor Co.
Fortis Insurance Co.
GMX Resources
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Harold's Stores, Inc.
Helmerich & Payne, Inc.
Hillcrest Healthcare System
Homeland Stores, Inc.
Hunzicker Brothers, Inc.
Ins. Co. of North America, INAPRO/CIGNA
INTEGRIS Health, Inc.
J.C. Penney Life Ins. Co.
John Alden Life Ins. Co.
John Hancock Life Insurance Co.
Lawyers Title Insurance Corp.
Liberty Nat. Life. Ins. Co.
Life Insurance Company of Georgia
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Lloyd's of London
Marathon Oil Company
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Mercy Hospital
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
MONY Life Insurance Co.
New England Mutual Life
New York Life Insurance Co.
Norman Regional Hospital
Oklahoma Association of Health Plans
Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality
Phoenix Life Insurance Co.
Pre-Paid Legal Services
Protective Life Ins. Company
Sheffield Steel Corporation
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
St. Anthony Hospital
Thrifty Rent-A-Car System, Inc.
Trammell Crow Company
Transamerica Occidental Life
USAirways, Inc.
VHA of Oklahoma/Arkansas, Inc.
The Williams Companies
Williams Communications Group, Inc.

Address

500 Kennedy Building
321 South Boston Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74103-3313, (Osage & Tulsa Cos.)

Phone

Phone: 918-592-9800
Fax: 918-592-9801

Website

http://www.crowedunlevy.com

Firm/Affiliate Offices

(For complete Client listing and Biographical Data on other Personnel, see Professional Biographies at Oklahoma City and at Norman for Crowe & Dunlevy)

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Elliot Anderson (Associate) born Warsaw, Indiana, 1976; admitted to bar, 2006, Oklahoma. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1998); Pepperdine University (J.D., 2006). Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Employment Law.

Jennifer A. Champlin (Associate) born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1977; admitted to bar, 2002, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 2005, Oklahoma, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. Education: Oklahoma State University (B.A., with honors, 1999); Cornell Law School (J.D., 2002). National Merit Scholar. Symposium Editor, Journal of Law and Public Policy. Author: "New Opportunities for Defense Lawyers: The Restatement's Treatment of Pharmaceuticals," Defense Research Institute, For the Defense, Vol 45 No. 7, July 2003. Member: Tulsa County, Oklahoma and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Litigation.Email: Jennifer A. Champlin

Brett D. Liles (Associate) born Atlanta, Georgia; admitted to bar, 2006, Oklahoma and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma; 2007, U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.A., summa cum laude, 1997); University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (J.D., 2006). Order of the Coif. National Merit Scholar. Writing Fellow. Recipient: Browning Constitutional Law Award; John R. Christian Award for Corporations Law; Excellence in Oral Advocacy Award; College of Law Achievement Award. Articles Editor, Arizona Law Review, 2005-2006. Author, "Reconsidering Poletown: In the Wake of Kelo, States Should Move to Restore Private Property Rights," 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 369, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2006). Practice Areas: Indian Gaming Law; Corporate Law; Securities; Aviation and Aerospace; Commercial Real Estate; Commercial Transactions; Mergers and Acquisitions; Finance; Financial Institutions Law.Email: Brett D. Liles

OF COUNSEL

Linda Kay Greaves (Of Counsel) born 1950; admitted to bar, 1995, Oklahoma; U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma. Education: West Texas State University (B.S., 1972); University of Tulsa (J.D., 1994). Former Chief Assistant District Attorney, Civil Division, Tulsa County, Fourteenth Judicial District under the administration of District Attorney Tim Harris. Member: Oklahoma and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Civil Rights; Torts; Ad Valorem Tax; Appellate Practice; Election Law.

Walter R. Echo Hawk (Of Counsel) admitted to bar, 1973, Colorado; 1974, U.S. District Court, District Court of Colorado; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 2007, U.S. Court of Appeal, Federal Circuit. (Not admitted in Oklahoma). Education: Oklahoma State University (B.A.); University of New Mexico (J.D.). Recipient: "Spirit of Excellence Award," for legal work in the face of adversity, American Bar Association; "Civil Liberties Award," from the ACLU of Oregon for significant contributions in the cause of individual freedom. Representative for the Klamath Tribes of Oregon. Former Lawyer for the Native American Rights Fund. Member of the Pawnee Nation, belonging (Kitkahaki Band). Practice Areas: Indian Gaming Law.

All Lawyers listed are Members of the Tulsa County, Oklahoma and American Bar Associations.