The Oklahoma Bar Journal August 2022

Heath W. Garwood has joined the Oklahoma City office of Phillips Murrah. Mr. Garwood is a civil litigation attorney who practices primarily in the areas of oil and natural resource law, commercial insurance defense, complex com mercial disputes and property law. He also represents individuals and entities with transactional and gen eral counsel services. He received his J.D. from the OU College of Law, where he was selected as an Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Scholar and earned an American Jurisprudence Award for wind energy law. AT THE PODIUM Paul R. Foster, of Paul Foster Law Offices PC in Norman, presented “Dynamic Interactive Question and Answer,” a panel of banking regulators from the Federal Reserve and OCC, during the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma’s Winter Leadership Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. Conference attendees were from Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.

Elise Schuller Barajas has joined the Dallas office of BakerHostetler as a partner in the firm’s Business Practice Group and a member of the Healthcare Industry team. Ms. Barajas advises clients on healthcare matters, including state and federal regulatory compli ance issues, particularly in the healthcare space. She regularly guides clients through transac tions, with a primary focus on healthcare mergers and acquisi tions on behalf of both financial and strategic buyers and sellers. She also assists companies as they navigate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Texas Illegal Remuneration Act, ACA, HIPAA and HITECH Act. Dwight L. Smith has joined the Tulsa law firm of Robinett Swartz & Duren as of counsel. Mr. Smith has spent the past 19 years of his 40-plus-year career practicing law as a sole practitioner. He may now be reached at 624 S. Boston Ave., Ste. 900, Tulsa, 74116; 918-592-3699; DSmith@robinettlawfirm.com.

Melissa R. Gardner has joined the Title Law Group in Oklahoma City. She practices in the area of oil and gas law, with an emphasis on oil and gas title opinions, min eral management, due diligence and curative work. Ms. Gardner previously worked in-house at a Fortune 500 oil and gas com pany and as a shareholder at a private, full-service law firm in Oklahoma City. She is a member of the Oklahoma City Mineral Lawyers Society, Oklahoma City Association of Petroleum Landmen and Oklahoma City Real Property Lawyers Association. Lisa Black has joined the Title Law Group in Oklahoma City. She has spent her legal career working on title-related issues. In addi tion to preparing oil and gas title opinions, she has extensive expe rience as a division order analyst. Ms. Black’s practice also includes assisting individual and corporate clients in quiet title actions. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in land brokerages, private law firms in Oklahoma and in-house at vari ous oil and gas companies.

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