The Oklahoma Bar Journal November 2022

ON THE MOVE

AT THE PODIUM

Ball Morse Lowe has merged with the estate planning firm of Mugg Winston to better meet the growing demand for estate plan ning and probate services across Oklahoma. Ball Morse Lowe has served businesses and individu als across Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado for more than a decade. The expanded practice will have offices in Oklahoma City and Norman, in addition to the current Mugg Winston office in Edmond. Brian Hill will be joined by Mugg Winston attorneys Christin Mugg and Bria Winston in leading the firm’s estate planning and pro bate practice. Mr. Mugg has more than 24 years of experience as an estate planning, tax and charitable planning attorney. Ms. Winston brings 12 years of estate planning and business succession expertise to the group.

Alexis S. Barnes, Blaine W. Brewer, Hannah N. Coker, Katherine Crowley Jimenez, Garrett J. Reed and Kiefer M. Rose have joined the Oklahoma City office of McAfee & Taft. Ms. Barnes represents employers and management in all phases of labor and employment law, including litigation in state and federal courts, before regulatory and administrative agencies and in arbitration matters. Mr. Brewer is a transactional lawyer whose practice encompasses a broad range of corporate and business matters, including real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, divesti tures, business entity formation and transaction financing. Ms. Coker is a transactional lawyer who represents local, national and international clients in connection with matters involving the buying, selling, leasing, financing and reg istration of aircraft. Ms. Jimenez is a trial lawyer whose state and federal civil litigation practice is primarily focused on matters affecting the energy industry. Mr. Reed is a trial lawyer who practices in the areas of business litigation before state and federal courts, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings, with an emphasis on matters affecting farm ers, ranchers, equine owners, land owners and agribusinesses. Mr. Rose is an ERISA attorney who represents public and private companies, tax-exempt organizations and gov ernmental entities in a wide range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters, with specific emphasis on group retirement and health plan design, implementation, administration and compliance.

Paul R. Foster of Norman was a featured speaker at the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma Annual Convention in Oklahoma City. Mr. Foster coor dinated and moderated a presen tation to the bank regulatory panel consisting of regulators from the Oklahoma Banking Department, the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve. The presentation covered recent legislation and regulations, hot exam topics, treatment of pan demic-related deferrals, interest rate risk, climate change and other trending regulatory issues. Judge Gregory H. Bigler presented the Watkins Lecture at East Central University’s Chickasaw Conference and Business Center. Judge Bigler is an appellate court judge with the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation in southern Connecticut. He is an Indian law private practitioner, solely repre senting Native American tribes. His linguistic interests range from his native Euchee language and efforts to raise awareness of native language preservation to studies of Mandarin Chinese. He was instru mental in founding the Oklahoma Native Language Association, of which he is a past chair. He also organized and co-chaired the Oklahoma Native Language Use Conference. He serves as a tribal court judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi and sits on the Supreme Court for the Kansas Kickapoo Tribe. He is also a tribal prosecutor for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, where he previously served as a district court judge.

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