Steven W. Soulé

Mr. Soulé is a Shareholder and member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee with Hall Estill in its Tulsa office. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration (with an emphasis in Accounting) degree in 1986 from the University of Oklahoma and a J.D., with Honors, in 1989 from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He has represented trustees, debtors and creditors in bankruptcy litigation and transactions, workouts, reorganization, creditor's rights and commercial transactions. He is an Adjunct Settlement Judge in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Further, he is a recipient of the 2010 Oklahoma Bar Association Pro Bono Award.

Mr. Soulé is on the Pro Bono Committee for the Tulsa County Bar Association. In addition, he is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the Turnaround Management Association and the National Petroleum Energy Credit Association.

Mr. Soulé has been a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma for more than 15 years. He was the trustee in one of the largest Ponzi scheme cases in Oklahoma and prosecuted over 45 fraudulent transfer adversary proceedings in that case. He was also the trustee in a case where he sold the Skelly Ranch, a historic 4,000 acre ranch, for more than $9 million. He was also the trustee in a large telecommunications case.

Mr. Soulé is a member of the bar of the State of Oklahoma, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Western and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma, the District of Colorado, the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas and the Southern District of Texas. He is currently or has represented clients in banktruptcy courts across the nation. A few of the significant bankruptcy cases Mr. Soulé has been involved in recently are Enron Corp., CDX Gas, Edge Petroleum, Express Energy, Mahalo Energy, Flying J, Mirant, Calpine Corp., Farmland Industries, Magnesium Corporation of America, Borden Chemicals, Adelphia Communications, WorldCom and Asarco.

For the past five years, Mr. Soulé has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation-Bankruptcy. In addition, he has been named an Oklahoma Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, as well as a local litigation star by Benchmark Litigation. Further, he also has an individual AV peer rating through Martindale-Hubbell and was named to the 2011 Power Attorneys and Legal Professionals list by the Tulsa Business Journal.

Mr. Soulé is a member of Leadership Tulsa (Class 21), is a member of the Committee of 100-Tulsa, a volunteer for Legal Aid of Oklahoma, a committee member for Troop 1 of the Boy Scouts of America, a volunteer for the Business Retention Program of the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Finance Committee at the First United Methodist Church of Tulsa and a volunteer on the Local Resource Board for OU-Tulsa. Mr. Soulé is also a member of the local resource council for the American Lung Association of Oklahoma and has served as the Resource Development Chair and past President for ALA. Mr. Soulé is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Tulsa Metro Area Salvation Army.

In addition, Mr. Soulé is a frequent speaker on legal issues, including:

• Presenter, 58th Annual Oil & Gas Conference, sponsored by The Center for American & International Law, February 2007
• Presenter, NABT Spring Seminar, sponsored by the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, April 2008
• Presenter and Panel Member on Bankruptcy Issues, 73rd Annual Conference of the National Petroleum Energy Credit Association, April 2010
• Presenter and Panel Member on Bankrupcty Issues, 2010 and 2011 Annual Conferences of the National Petroleum Energy Credit Association

• Shareholder

• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Banking/Financial Services
• Business Finance & Restructuring
• Business Transactions
• Claims Litigation
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Services
• Creditor/Committee/Trustee Representation
• Crisis Management Counseling
• Distressed Assets
• Financial Services
• Litigation
• Plan Confirmation
• Preference, Fraudulent Conveyance
• Real Estate
• Turnaround & Restructuring

• University of Oklahoma College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1989)
• University of Oklahoma (B.B.A. in Accounting, 1986)

• Oklahoma, 1989
• Oklahoma Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
• U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

• Leadership Tulsa
• American Lung Association of Oklahoma - Council Member & Past President
• University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, Council Member
• President's Associates Council, University of Oklahoma
• Legal Aid of Oklahoma, Pro Bono Attorney
• Board Member, Salvation Army
• Board Member, The Foundation for Tulsa Schools
• Committee of 100 - Tulsa
• Boy Scouts of America, Troop 1, Committee Member
• Finance Committee, First Methodist Church of Tulsa
• Board Member, Oklahoma Quality Award Foundation

• 1992 - Present Hall Estill
• 1989 - 1992 Jones, Givens, Gotcher & Bogan

• Oklahoma Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees
• Tulsa County Bar Association, member, Professional Responsibility Committee
• Tulsa County Bar Association, Pro Bono Committee
• Chapter 7 panel trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
• Adjunct Settlement Judge for the U.S. District Court and Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
• Member, Turnaround Management Association

• Presenter, 58th Annual Oil & Gas Conference, sponsored by The Center for American & International Law, February 2007
• Presenter, NABT Spring Seminar, sponsored by the National Association of Bankrupty Trustees, April 2008
• Presenter and Panel Member, 2010 and 2011 Annual Conference of the National Petroleum Energy Credit Association

Steven W. Soule

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