Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr.

Mr. Luthey is a 30-year litigation attorney and serves on Hall Estill’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He has an individual AV rating through Martindale-Hubbell; has been recognized as an Oklahoma Super Lawyer in Business Litigation; has been selected a Best Lawyer in America in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Compliance Law, Gaming Law and Native American Law; and has been named a local litigation star by Benchmark Litigation. Further, he was named the 2011 Tulsa Lawyer of the Year in Native American Law by Best Laywers. In addition, he holds a Band 1 ranking in Indian Law in Chambers USA. He has been selected by the American Bar Foundation as the Outstanding Chair for the Fellows of the ABA. In addition, he is the recipient of an award sponsored by the Islamic Society of Tulsa "for excellence in exemplary encouragement and protecting our rights" for his work with the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Center for Community Justice. Further, in 2011 he was presented with a Leadership Law award from the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Journal Record, as well as named to the inaugural "Men of Distinction" list published by the Tulsa Business Journal.

Mr. Luthey has argued appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court and various federal and state appellate courts and has handled matters in federal and state trial courts and agencies across the country.  Among his clients have been major energy companies, Fortune 500 companies, Indian Tribes, national churches, state and local governmental entities, insurance companies, Big 4 accounting firms, law firms and health care providers.

Highlights of Mr. Luthey’s practice include:

• Obtained $90 million cash in arbitration for energy, marketing and trading company from a national electric utility
• Obtained Writ of Certiorari and orally argued tax case for Indian Tribes before U.S. Supreme Court
• Successfully represented and settled for a Big 5 accounting firm defendant in multiple securities fraud class actions
• Obtained on behalf of the Legislature only the second writ of prohibition in history against a sitting governor from Oklahoma Supreme Court
• Obtained injunction, upheld on appeal, for Indian Gaming Manufacturers against U.S. Attorney General, Department of Justice and National Indian Gaming Commission prohibiting enforcement of civil and criminal gaming laws.
• Obtained dismissal of state court indictment against MCI-WorldCom for securities fraud without either guilty or nolo contendre plea
• Obtained summary judgment in favor of Hall Estill’s client the national Presbyterian Church (USA), resolving the question of ownership of the local church property resulting from the local church's departure from the Presbyterian Church (USA).
• Argued before the Court of Appeal of the State of California and obtained a unanimous opinion for publication denying a petition for mandamus seeking production pursuant to subpoena in that civil case  of attorney work product privileged material previously produced by our client to federal investigators.  In a nationwide appellate case of first impression, the court held that the federal government’s threat of potential indictment if the privileged materials were not produced constituted coercion which prevented the production, constituting a waiver of the privilege.
• Obtained, as co-lead counsel, summary judgment in favor of Defendant The Williams Companies defeating securities claims in a certified class action.
• Successfully led team which obtained withdrawal of proposed federal Indian Gaming regulations that would have destroyed Class II Gaming nationwide.

• Shareholder

• Administrative Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Antitrust
• Appellate
• Class Action Defense
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Gaming Regulation
• Indian Law
• Litigation
• SEC Disclosure/Securities Regulation
• Utilities

• "Chickasaw Nation v. United States, Vol. XXVII, No. 2"

• University of Oklahoma College of Law (J.D., 1979)
• Oxford University (1976) Visiting Research Fellow
• University of Oklahoma (B.A. in Letters, with highest honors, 1976)

• Oklahoma, 1979
• Oklahoma Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court of the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
• United States Claims Court
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth, Sixth, D.C. Circuits
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Tax Court

• Tulsa Area United Way, Board of Directors
• Chairman - State of Oklahoma Economic Development Board (1999-2002)
• Chairman - State of Oklahoma University Hospitals Authority (1994-1998)
• Chairman, Tulsa Public Facilities Authority (1990-1993)
• Member - Advisory Board, OU Tulsa (2002- )
• Member - University of Oklahoma College of Arts & Sciences Board of Visitors (1997 - )
• Executive Committee and Board of Directors, Tulsa Ballet (1988-2000)
• Executive Committee and Board of Trustees, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas (1991-2000)
• Vice President for Public Policy, Board Member and Executive Committee - Oklahoma Center for Community Justice (2006 - )
• Board of Directors, Natureworks
• Committee Member, Campaign for Justice 2011, Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma

• 1992 - Present Hall, Estill
• 1979 - 1992 Jones, Givens, Gotcher & Bogan

• General Counsel- Rogers University (1994-1998)
• Chancellor (General Counsel) - Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma (1984-1999)
• American Bar Foundation - Past Chairman of Fellows Oklahoma Chapter; Member, Fellows National Advisory Research Committee
• Tulsa County Bar Association - Board of Directors (1984-1989)
• Presiding Judge - Oklahoma Court of Appeals (Temporary Division) (1991-1992)
• Past President, Counsellor and Master Emeritus, Johnson Sontag Chapter, American Inns of Court
• American Law Institute - Elected Member
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
• Federal Bar Association, President, Northeastern Oklahoma Chapter
• Adjunct Professor of Law- University of Tulsa (1984-)

• Adjunct Full Professor of Law, University of Tulsa (1984-Present) - courses in Agency; Appeals; Pretrial Practice
• Speaker, American Bar Association - Annual Meeting - Accountants' Liability
• Speaker, Oklahoma Bar Association - multiple programs on Appeals, injunctions, judgments, securities law
• Speaker, 21st Sovereignty Symposium, July 2008

Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr.

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