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matters. Ms. Mayes attended the OU College of Law, where she served as a note and comment editor on the Oklahoma Law Review and published an article exam ining the intersection of artificial intelligence and Article 9 search logic. She received numerous aca demic distinctions, including the Frank C. Love Memorial Award for Writing, the Captain Brian Wheeler Write-on Award, the Gene H. and Jo Ann Sharp Law Review Award for Outstanding Comment, membership in the Order of the Scribes and American Jurisprudence awards in bank ruptcy, criminal procedure inves tigation and MPT and practical lawyering. She also received the OU Law Comfort Scholarship. She previously participated in the Phillips Murrah Summer Law Clerk Program in 2025.

after clerking for Judge Ronald C. Griffin of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. He received his J.D. with honors from the OCU School of Law. Mr. Siever joins the firm’s Tulsa office after serving as a term law clerk to Judge Gregory K. Frizzell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He received his J.D. from the TU College of Law in 2025. Both concentrate their practices on the resolution of complex business and commercial litigation and class actions. Lindsay Mayes has joined the law firm of Phillips Murrah P.C. in its Oklahoma City office. She is a litigation associate who represents individuals and both privately held and public companies in a wide range of civil litigation

litigation counsel and lead attor ney for the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. She handled complex federal investi gations, jury trials and appellate matters involving white-collar crime, transnational organized crime, environmental enforce ment and national security. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she served with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office as direc tor of the Multi-County Grand Jury Unit. Her work has earned numerous honors, including two FBI Director’s Awards and recog nition as the Northern District of Oklahoma Attorney of the Year. Philip J. “PJ” Novak III and Trent Siever have joined the law firm of McAfee & Taft in its litigation practice. Mr. Novak joins the firm’s Oklahoma City office

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