The Oklahoma Bar Journal January 2023

B ench & B ar B riefs

ON THE MOVE Ryan J. Gray has joined the Tulsa law firm of Atkinson, Brittingham, Gladd, Fiasco & Edmonds as an associate. She practices in the area of civil litigation, with an empha sis on research and writing. Ms. Gray received her J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2011, where she earned a Sustainable Energy and Resources Law Certificate and received CALI Awards in administrative law and taxation of estates, trusts and gifts. Deric McClellan has rejoined Crowe & Dunlevy as an associate in the Tulsa office. A member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial; Appellate; Energy, Environment & Natural Resources; and Real Estate practice groups, Mr. McClellan returned to the firm after serving as a career law clerk to Judge John E. Dowdell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma for the past two years. Previously, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephanie K. Seymour on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Genni Ellis has joined McAfee & Taft as the newest attorney in its Intellectual Property Group. Her practice encompasses all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and related licensing and litigation. Her patent practice, which includes preparing and prosecuting domestic and inter national plant, design and utility patents, is focused on the technical areas of life sciences and chemis try. She is a member of the firm’s Agriculture and Equine, Biotech, Cybersecurity and Privacy, and Energy and Natural Resources groups. She received her J.D. from the OU College of Law in 2017. Prior to entering law school, she worked for the Alaska Department of Health and the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development. While in law school, she served as an intellectual property legal intern for the U.S. Navy’s Office of Counsel – Naval Surface Warfare Center, where she researched and drafted patent applications for submission to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on behalf of the U.S. armed forces.

Tiffany L. Landry has joined the Tulsa law firm of Atkinson, Brittingham, Gladd, Fiasco & Edmonds as an associate. She graduated from the Southern University Law Center in 2016 and began her career in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ms. Landry practices primarily in the area of civil litiga tion, defending against claims of medical negligence, general liabil ity and claims arising from motor vehicle collisions and insurance bad faith. Sohail Punjwani has joined the Oklahoma City office of Ogletree Deakins as an associate. Before joining the firm, he served as in-house counsel for one of the largest human capital manage ment companies. In that role, he counseled the company’s human resources department and execu tives and managed litigation. Mr. Punjwani is SHRM-CP certified. He received his J.D. from the OCU School of Law.

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