The Oklahoma Bar Journal December 2022

B ench & B ar B riefs

ON THE MOVE Kimberly A. Wurtz has joined the Oklahoma City office of Phillips Murrah as of counsel. She prac tices primarily in the areas of property, water and energy law, focusing on landowner property matters, water rights and asset protection. As an Oklahoma delegate to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, she serves as the vice chair of the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Committee and is a member of the Energy Resources, Research and Technology Committee. She is also currently serving on the Oklahoma National Association of Royalty Owners Board of Directors and the NARO Foundation Board of Directors. Ms. Wurtz is a co-author for Patton and Palomar on Land Titles . The office of LKDLAW PC, attor ney Laurence K. Donahoe , has moved to 3035 NW 63rd St., Ste. N 201, Oklahoma City, 73116. He may be contacted at LaurenceDonahoeLaw@gmail.com. The firm’s phone and fax numbers remain the same. Tyler A. Stephens has joined the Tulsa office of Riggs Abney Law Firm as an associate. Mr. Stephens received his J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2022, where he graduated in the top 15% of his class and served as business manager of the Tulsa Law Review and president of the Public Interest Board. He also received the Martin H. Belsky Award in public interest law and the CALI Award for the highest individual performance in administrative law.

Angela Smoot has joined the Tulsa office of Riggs Abney Law Firm as a shareholder. Her experience includes brief writing and oral arguments for all types of civil litigation, including family and domestic cases with complex busi ness issues. Ms. Smoot has numer ous published state and federal appellate opinions and is admitted to practice law in the Northern, Eastern and Western districts of Oklahoma and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Abigail E. Bauer has joined the Tulsa office of Riggs Abney Law Firm as an associate attorney. She received her J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2022, where she graduated with honors and served as president of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Ms. Bauer also received the CALI Award for the highest individual performance in computer crime. Ryan J. Gray has joined the Tulsa law firm of Atkinson, Brittingham, Gladd, Fiasco & Edmonds as an associate. He practices in the area of civil litigation, with an empha sis on research and writing. Mr. Gray received his J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2011, where he earned a Sustainable Energy and Resources Law Certificate and received CALI Awards in adminis trative law and taxation of estates, trusts and gifts. Mark A. Yancey has retired after 36 years with the United States Department of Justice, much of which was served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Beginning Nov. 14, he will join the University of South Carolina School of Law as a professor of practice and director of graduate programs. Connor M. Andreen, Mason B. McMillan and Sarah E. Sadler have joined the Tulsa office of Hall Estill. Hilary Hewitt Price and John P. Slay have joined the firm’s Oklahoma City office. Mr. Andreen joins the firm’s commercial litiga tion and bankruptcy, restructuring and creditor-rights practices. Mr. McMillan joins the firm’s energy litigation practice. Ms. Sadler joins the firm’s trusts and estates litigation practice. Ms. Price joins the firm’s litigation practice. Mr. Slay joins the firm’s transactional practice. Samantha Barber and Erica Parks have joined the Tulsa office of Rhodes Hieronymus Jones Tucker and Gable PLLC as associates. Ms. Barber practices primarily in the areas of litigation, insurance defense and employment law. She received her J.D and Sustainable Energy Natural Resources Law Certificate in 2022 from the TU College of Law, where she was a notes editor for the Energy Law Journal and a recipient of the Tulsa County Bar Association’s Energy and Natural Resources Award. Ms. Parks has many years of experience representing clients and resolving cases through liti gation, negotiation and mediation. She primarily practices in the area of family law, including divorce and separation, child custody, child and spousal support and property division. She is also adept in crimi nal defense and civil litigation in a variety of areas, including personal injury cases and insurance defense.

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THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL