James M. Reed

Mr. Reed has more than 25 years experience in the Litigation arena and has an individual AV rating through Martindale-Hubbell. In addition, he is a member of the firm's Board of Directors and has been recognized as an Oklahoma Super Lawyer in Business Litigation. Further, he is a former Adjunct Professor at Tulsa Community College.

Highlights of Mr. Reed’s legal career include:

• Obtained $63 million judgment and subsequent foreclosure of a 40-story office tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Obtained a $60 million judgment against Oklahoma resort development owners while representing lenders.
• Acted as lead counsel for a former CEO of a large Tulsa company in defense of the largest securities fraud claims ever filed in the State of Oklahoma at time of filing, involving over $2 billion in claims asserted by hundreds of nationally and internationally based plaintiffs.
• Acted as lead counsel defending a former CEO of a publicly traded company in a consolidated class action securities fraud case.
• Acted as lead counsel for an interstate gas transmission and supply company in the successful defense of claims brought against it by the City of Detroit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, resulting in a verdict and recovery for our client in the amount of $9.4 million.
• Acted as lead counsel for various national lending institutions in defense of lender liability claims filed in both state and federal courts.
• Acted as lead counsel for an officer of a publicly traded company in defense of claims asserted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
• Acted as lead trial counsel and obtained a judgment and subsequent recovery for plaintiffs in an amount in excess of $2 million in an action against an insurer on a director and officer liability policy.

• Shareholder

• Antitrust
• Banking/Financial Services
• Business Finance & Restructuring
• Class Action Defense
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Services
• Distressed Assets
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Financial Services
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property & Information Technology
• Litigation
• Oil & Gas
• Real Estate
• SEC Disclosure/Securities Regulation
• White Collar Defense & Investigations

• University of Arkansas School of Law (J.D., 1982)
• Lake Superior State University (B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, 1978)

• Oklahoma, 1982
• Oklahoma Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court of the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Southern District of Indiana, the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Eastern District of Michigan

• 1988 - Present Hall Estill
• 1982 - 1988 Owens & McGill, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Bar Association
• Tulsa County Bar Association
• American Lawyers Association

• Former Adjunct Professor at Tulsa Community College

James M. Reed

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