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currently represents several large businesses across the state. He is also active in continual learning for lawyers. His arti cles have been published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal regarding court-ordered grandparental rights, interlocutory appeals and construction trusts in Oklahoma, all of which he has presented con tinued learning education courses for other lawyers across the state. Mr. McBride is the current president of the Mayes County Bar Association and has served as the Mayes County Law Day Chair from 2018 to 2022. He also serves on the OBA Technology Committee and Clients’ Security Fund Committee. Outside of law, he resides in Owasso with his wife and two daughters and can often be found playing golf at the Patriot Golf Club or fly fishing.

liability and False Claims Act litigation. Born and raised in Norman, Mr. Marr is an alumnus of OU and the OU College of Law. He continues to live in Norman with his wife, Daniela, who owns and operates her own bakery, Coop Cake. Their dog, Lando, serves as his unenthusiastic work-from-home legal assistant. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, going to the movies and investing a dangerous amount of his self-worth into the success of the OU football program.

client’s situation into account when developing a solution. In the representation of his clients, his focus is always to get the best possible result for each individual client’s goals. A native Tulsan and a graduate of Northeastern State University and the TU College of Law, Mr. Taylor is licensed to prac tice law in all Oklahoma state courts, Muscogee (Creek) Nation courts as well as the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Tulsa County Bar Association and a District 6 representative for the OBA YLD. He is also active in the Tulsa Young Professionals, the Tulsa County Bar Association and the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association (OCDLA). In his spare time, he enjoys get ting outdoors and volunteering in the community.

Chase McBride Chase McBride has served on the YLD board for three previous terms. He has his own firm based in Pryor

Phoebe Mitchell

and primarily practices in the northeast Oklahoma area. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance and a minor in economics from TU and graduated from OU with both his J.D. and MBA. He also received a certificate in law and entrepreneur ship from the OU College of Law. Mr. McBride is primarily a litigator. He has successfully argued in front of Oklahoma’s highest court, defended federal business litigation actions, orga nized multi-million-dollar busi ness transactions and transfers, represented high-asset divorce estates and successfully defended two first-degree murder charges, a first-degree manslaughter and other felonies. He has also successfully repre sented three separate Oklahoma police chiefs in wrongful ter mination and employment dis putes and successfully defended multiple politicians in the Tulsa area against defamation claims filed against them. Mr. McBride

Phoebe Mitchell is a third-year liti gation attorney with Phillips Murrah PC. She represents

CONTESTED ELECTIONS

The following persons have been nom inated and are running contested for the following positions. Results will be announced at the YLD November meeting.

individuals and both privately held and public companies in a wide range of civil litigation matters. Ms. Mitchell received her J.D. from the OU College of Law, where she earned the American Jurisprudence Award for Civil Procedure II and was on the Dean’s Honor Roll. She served as research editor and candidate mentor for the Oklahoma Law Review and was a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal honor society. She also served as a mentor on the Dean’s Leadership Council, was selected as a Dean’s Leadership Fellow and served on the Academic Appeals Board. While in law school, she had the oppor tunity to clerk as a judicial intern

At-Large Dayten Israel

See bio above

Nick Marr

Nick Marr is an attorney at the Oklahoma City law firm of Nix Patterson LLP. He rep resents plain tiffs in a wide

array of mass tort and complex matters, concentrating on insur ance bad faith, medical device

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