The Oklahoma Bar Journal November 2024

KUDOS Jim Wyly of Wyly-Rommel PLLC was selected for the Commitment to Justice Award by the University of Arkansas School of Law and the Law Alumni Society. Virginia L. Frank has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. The American Bar Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars. Ms. Frank practices adoption and reproductive technology law, and she is also licensed in Colorado, New York and the Cherokee Nation tribal courts. She received her J.D. from the OCU School of Law in 1991.

of the bank regulatory panel consisting of regulators from the Oklahoma Banking Department, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve. It covered liquidity, recent interest rate risk, credit risk man agement, litigation impacting the regulatory landscape and other trending regulatory issues. of Oklahoma, where he focused on white-collar crime, includ ing health care fraud, corporate misconduct and tax offenses. He also spent six years at an interna tional law firm in Dallas, where he litigated complex commercial disputes in both federal and state courts, as well as arbitration pro ceedings. Mr. Cella received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. and FINRA and NASD rules. For five years, he served as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District

AT THE PODIUM Paul R. Foster of Paul Foster Law Offices PC in Norman was a fea tured speaker at the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma Annual Convention, held in Oklahoma City Sept. 11-13. Mr. Foster presented a breakout session on community bank mergers and acquisitions and a bank capitaliza tion primer. He also coordinated and moderated the presentation tory authority overseeing U.S. securities firms. He represented the Department of Enforcement in intricate proceedings involving violations of federal securities laws Richard M. Cella has joined the law firm of GableGotwals as a shareholder. He has extensive expe rience in complex litigation and high-stakes government and cor porate investigations. Mr. Cella pre viously served as senior litigation counsel at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the largest independent regula

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