The Oklahoma Bar Journal February 2024

KUDOS Jim Buxton was elected president of the Oklahoma Association for Justice. The organization, pre viously known as the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association, is the oldest trial lawyers association in the country. Its goal is preserving the rights of Oklahomans and their access to courts and trial by jury.

HOW TO PLACE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: The Oklahoma Bar Journal welcomes short articles or news items about OBA members and upcoming meetings. If you are an OBA member and you’ve moved, become a partner, hired an associate, taken on a partner, received a promotion or an award or given a talk or speech with statewide or national stature, we’d like to hear from Logan James , Carson Glass Lamle , Lauren Marciano and Collin Walke have been elected shareholders of the law firm of Hall Estill. Mr. James focuses his practice on trusts and estate liti gation and complex commercial litigation. He has extensive expe rience in all phases of litigation, including trial work. Ms. Lamle rejoined Hall Estill in January 2022. She initially started her legal career with the firm in 2016 before serving as a law clerk for Judge John F. Heil III. She practices in the areas of com plex commercial litigation and energy and natural resources law. Ms. Marciano joined the firm in 2021. She practices in the areas of complex commer cial, construction, employment, and trusts and estate litigation. Mr. Walke is the leader of Hall Estill’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice and is certified in information privacy and artificial intelligence systems auditing. He brings extensive experience from his tenure in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

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you. Sections, committees and county bar associations are encouraged to submit short stories about upcoming or recent activities. Honors bestowed by other publications ( e.g., Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers , etc.) will not be accepted as announcements. (Oklahoma-based publications are the exception.) Information selected for publication is printed at no cost, subject to editing and printed as space permits.

Hailey Boyd Communications Dept. Oklahoma Bar Association 405-416-7018 barbriefs@okbar.org

Articles for the April issue must be received by March 1.

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