The Oklahoma Bar Journal May 2023

B ench & B ar B riefs

ON THE MOVE

Brenda Doroteo has joined the Tulsa law firm of Rivas & Associates as an associate attorney. She will focus on removal defense litiga tion in immigration courts, as well as analyze and provide potential detained immigration clients with relief options. Ms. Doroteo received her J.D. from the OCU School of Law in 2019 and has years of courtroom experience and skills as a trial attorney to help immigrants in removal proceedings. Isaac Treadaway has joined the Oklahoma City office of McAfee & Taft as an associate. Mr. Treadaway is a member of the Labor & Employment Group and is focused on the representation of employers and management in all phases of labor and employment law and dispute resolution. He has experi ence in advising employers on state and federal compliance issues and representing employers in FLSA, state wage law collective and class action cases, among other areas. He returned to Oklahoma after previously working in the Dallas and Houston offices of two of the nation’s largest law firms and has been admitted to practice in Oklahoma, all state and federal courts in Texas and the federal court in New Mexico.

J. Robert Kalsu has been elected as vice president of economics of the law firm of Crowe & Dunlevy. He serves as the chair of the firm’s Aviation & Commercial Space Practice Group and primarily practices in the areas of commer cial and business law, aviation title, finance and regulatory law. Mr. Kalsu received his J.D. from the Southern Methodist University School of Law. Natalie K. Leone has joined the Tulsa law firm of Rivas & Associates as an associate attorney. She will be spearheading the firm’s new bilingual business formations department, which also serves as a bilingual registered agent for businesses across the state. She will focus on helping Latinos estab lish their businesses. Ms. Leone received her J.D. from the TU College of Law and practices law in both Texas and Oklahoma. Tracy E. Smith has joined the Tulsa law firm of Rivas & Associates as an associate attorney. She will work on immigration law consultation, primarily analyzing intakes, inter preting evidence and documents and providing the potential immi gration client with relief options. Ms. Smith received her J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2006 and previously worked as a bilingual/dual lan guage teacher in Austin, Texas.

David Herber has joined the Oklahoma City office of

GableGotwals as an associate. He practices in the areas of admin istrative and regulatory law, bankruptcy, commercial and insurance law. He received his J.D. with distinction from the OU College of Law. Mr. Herber pre viously worked at an Oklahoma City law firm, where he practiced a wide range of business litigation and transactional matters. Prior to working at law firms, he served as deputy general counsel in the Executive Office of Gov. J. Kevin Stitt, where he advised the gover nor and his office on various issues related to criminal law, state ethics rules, elections and administrative law. Mr. Herber has also served as a judicial extern to Chief Judge Joe Heaton in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, a summer law clerk in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma and a research assis tant for the editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal . Adam W. Childers has been elected president and CEO of the law firm of Crowe & Dunlevy. He serves as the chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. Additionally, Mr. Childers is a member of the OU College of Law’s Order of the Barristers and serves as an administrative law judge at the Oklahoma Department of Labor. He received his J.D. from the OU College of Law, where he served as the captain of the speech and debate team.

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