D. Kenyon Williams, Jr.

Mr. Williams is a 33-year business defense attorney with expertise in Environmental, Healthcare, Municipal Law, Natural Resources, Real Estate and Renewable Energy Law and has an individual BV rating through Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been named a Best Lawyer in America in Litigation-Environmental and an Oklahoma Super Lawyer in Energy & Natural Resources.

Highlights of his career include: successful defense of the largest asbestos contamination case to date in Oklahoma and lead in providing all legal services to a real estate developer for the purchase, remediation and successful renovation of the largest informal Brownfields project to date in Oklahoma.

In addition, Mr. Williams is a frequent speaker on Environmental issues, including:

• "Civil and Criminal Liability of Officers and Directors of Corporations Under Current Environmental Law," Oklahoma Bar Journal (1996) & Oklahoma Bar Association/Environmental Law Section Handbook
• Continuing Presenter for the Joint Session of Oklahoma/Arkansas Environmental Law Sections of Annual Case Law Update for Oklahoma and Tenth Circuit
• Current Issues from the Perspective of Municipalities/Phase II Storm Water Permits (2005)
• "Environmental Law Update," presented to the Tulsa County Bar Association (2007)
• "Electronic Discovery," presented to the Oklahoma Bar Association, Environmental Law Section (June 2003)
• "Ethics and Environmental Justice," presented to the Joint Session of Oklahoma/Arkansas Environmental Law Sections (May 1998)
• "Musings on Natural Resource Damages," presented to the Oklahoma Bar Association, Environmental Law Section (June 2006)
• "Oklahoma’s Proposed Regulation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials," Environmental Law Section Newsletter (1994)
• "Oklahoma Chicken Litter Wars," presented to the 27^th Annual Agricultural Law Symposium of the American Agricultural Law Association (2006)

• Shareholder

• Administrative Law
• Alternative/Renewable Energy
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Environmental Litigation
• Environmental Services
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Litigation
• Real Estate
• Regulatory Compliance
• Transactions/Real Estate

• University of Tulsa College of Law (J.D., 1977)
• University of Tulsa (B.S. in Petroleum Engineering, 1974)

• Arkansas, 1998
• Oklahoma, 1977
• Oklahoma Supreme Court
• All Districts of Arkansas
• U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

• Tulsa Urban Ministries (Tulsa Neighborhood Networks) - Co-Founder
• Boy Scouts of America - Sponsor Liaison

• 1996 - Present Hall Estill
• 1995 - 1996 Davenport & Williams, P.C.
• 1988 - 1994 Helmerich & Payne, Inc.
• 1977 - 1987 Williams, White & Associates

• American Bar Association - Environment, Energy & Resources, and Real Property, Probate & Trust Sections
• Oklahoma Bar Association - Environmental Law Section; Real Property Section
• Tulsa County Bar Association - Member, Board of Directors and Budget Chair; Mineral Law Section; Corporate Counsel Section; Current Chair of Fee Arbitration Committee 
• Arkansas Bar Association - Environmental Law Section
• American Inns of Court, Council Oak Chapter

• Municipal Law

• "Electronic Discovery," presented to the Oklahoma Bar Association, Environmental Law Section (June 2003)
• "Ethics and Environmental Justice," presented to the Joint Session of Oklahoma/Arkansas Environmental Law Sections (May 1998)
• "Civil and Criminal Liability of Officers and Directors of Corporations Under Current Environmental Law," Oklahoma Bar Journal (1996) & Oklahoma Bar Association/Environmental Law Section Handbook
• Oklahoma's Proposed Regulation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials, Environmental Law Section Newsletter (1994)
• Continuing Presenter for the Joint Session of Oklahoma/Arkansas Environmental Law Sections of Annual Case Law Update for Oklahoma and Tenth Circuit
• "Musings on Natural Resource Damages," presented to the Oklahoma Bar Association, Environmental Law Section (June 2006)

D. Kenyon ("Ken") Williams, Jr.

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