IN THE MATTER OF THE SUSPENSION OF MEMBERS OF THE OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION
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IN THE MATTER OF THE SUSPENSION OF MEMBERS OF THE OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION
2013 OK 45
Case Number: SCBD-6016
Decided: 06/20/2013
THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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IN THE MATTER OF THE SUSPENSION OF MEMBERS OF THE OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE YEAR 2012
ORDER OF SUSPENSION FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE RULES
FOR MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
On June 11, 2013, the Oklahoma Bar Association's Board of Governors filed a recommendation for the suspension of its members who failed to comply with mandatory legal education requirements for the year 2012 as required by Rules 3 and 5 of the Rules for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE Rules), 5 O.S. 2011, ch. 1, app. 1-B. The Board of Governors recommended that the members whose names appear on the list attached to the recommendation be suspended from membership in the Oklahoma Bar Association and from the practice of law in the State of Oklahoma, as provided by Rule 6 of the MCLE Rules.
This Court finds that on March 15, 2013, the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association mailed, by certified mail, an Order to Show Cause within sixty days why the member's license to practice law in the State of Oklahoma should not be suspended to all Oklahoma Bar Association members not in compliance with Rules 3 and 5 of the MCLE Rules. The Board of Governors has found that the Oklahoma Bar Association's members named on Exhibit A of its recommendation have not shown good cause why the member's license to practice law in the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Bar Association membership should not be suspended.
This Court, having considered the Board of Governors' recommendation and motion, finds that each of the Oklahoma Bar Association's members named on Exhibit A, attached hereto, should be suspended.
It is therefore ordered that the attorneys named on Exhibit A, attached hereto, are hereby suspended from membership in the Association and from the practice of law in the State of Oklahoma for failure to comply with the MCLE Rules for the year 2012.
DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE on this 20th day of June, 2013.
/S/CHIEF JUSTICE
CONCUR: Colbert, C.J.; Reif, V.C.J.; Kauger, Winchester, Edmondson, Taylor, Combs, Gurich, JJ.
NOT VOTING: Watt, J.
EXHIBIT A
(MCLE - Suspension)
Jann Shaw Bayliss, OBA No. 11751
100 West 5th St., Ste. 900
Tulsa, OK 74103-4217
Kelly Dawn Bell, OBA No. 19403
7753 S. Mingo
Tulsa, OK 74133
Everett R. Bennett Jr., OBA No. 11224
8830 S. Toledo Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74137
Leon Douglas Bragg Jr., OBA No. 22780
1709 Chamblee Dr.
Norman, OK 73071
Julie Brower, OBA No. 20634
The Kline Law Firm
720 N.E. 63rd St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Edward Jefferies Clarke, OBA No. 18675
511 Couch Dr., Ste. 300
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-2250
Michael Kerry Dekruif, OBA No. 22350
7334 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Ste. 200
Canoga Park, CA 91304
Jenna Delaney Korin Foreman,
OBA No. 22410
1345 E. Brooks St.
Norman, OK 73071
Joseph Edward Griffin, OBA No. 15465
6402 S. 88th E. Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74133
Stephanie Anne Harper Easterling,
OBA No. 20498
7508 E. Earll, #19
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Mark Edward Heidenreiter, OBA No. 22591
4325 S. Xenophon Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74107
Don Laudick, OBA No. 5269
2705 Old Farm Ln.
Edmond, OK 73013
John Randall Long, OBA No. 12379
2624 N.W. 61st
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
John Scott McWilliams, OBA No. 11676
1612 S. Cincinnati
Tulsa, OK 74119
Christina Marie Merritt, OBA No. 20526
3524 Plantation Way, #464
Naples, FL 34112
Darick Chaka Morton, OBA No. 22907
8607 E. 98th St.
Tulsa, OK 74133
Bradley Joseph Noland, OBA No. 21767
5152 State Hwy. 199
Ardmore, OK 73401
Robert Thurman Owen III, OBA No. 22256
710 N. Fulgham Ct.
Visalia, CA 93291
Louis Christopher Pappas, OBA No. 6884
2520 S. Oswego Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74114
Benjamin Carter Perrine, OBA No. 22680
701 S. Cincinnati
Tulsa, OK 74119
James E. Potts Jr., OBA No. 18809
P.O. Box 13006
Arlington, TX 76094-0006
Jonna Lynn Reynolds, OBA No. 21336
6612 South Rockford Place
Tulsa, OK 74136
Darin Scott Rohrer, OBA No. 17495
217 N. Harvey, Ste. 409
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
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