The Oklahoma Bar Journal February 2023

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Tanya S. Bryant hosted the Oklahoma City Human Resources Society’s annual legal update, “2023 Employment Law Forecast: Will Employers Face a Frigid Winter or a Winter Wonderland?” on Jan. 26. Attorneys from Crowe & Dunlevy’s Labor & Employment Practice Group discussed timely topics, including combatting religious and national origin discrimination, workplace accommodations for neu rodiverse individuals and avoiding the pitfalls of politics in the work place. Ms. Bryant is a shareholder and director at Crowe & Dunlevy and general counsel for OCHRS.

Leah Farish ’s podcast, Conversation Balloons , has been rated by Spotify as among the top 25% most followed and the top 25% most shared globally. The show is an interview-with-experts format concerning social and legal issues, such as marijuana use among kids, multi-generational workplaces, sports gambling, abortion and end-of-life topics. J. Christopher Davis has been inducted into the Oklahoma Chapter of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. NADN is America’s foremost professional organization for experienced mediators and arbitrators prac ticing in the field of civil and commercial conflict resolution. Membership is by invitation only and requires a minimum of 200 successful mediations. A shareholder and director in the Tulsa office of Crowe & Dunlevy, Mr. Davis represents clients as a member of the firm’s Alternative Dispute Resolution, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation & Trial, and Product Liability prac tice groups. He is Oklahoma’s only active paraplegic trial attorney.

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