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Ed Abel
FOCUS OF PRACTICE
- Personal injury
- Product liability
- Negligence and medical negligence.
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Founded the firm (previously known as Abel, Musser, Sokolosky, Mares & Kouri) in 1976.
- Previously a partner in another major Oklahoma City law firm for 10 years.
- Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association Member, Board of Governors; Past President; Chairman Key Man
Committee; Legislative Committee Member; Active in Speaker's Bureau, OTLA Member of the Year 2003.
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America Member, Former State Committeeman; Former Second National Vice
Chairman State Committeemen; Former First National Vice Chairman State Committeemen; Former National
Chairman State Committeemen; Former Member Executive Committee; Former Mid-West Regional Task Force
Coordinator; Former Member, Board of Governors.
- American Bar Association Member, Negligence and Insurance Section.
- American Board of Trial Advocates Member.
- Oklahoma Bar Association Chairman, Civil Code Procedure committee; Member, Civil Code Procedure
Committee; Co-Author, Oklahoma Evidence Code; Co-Author, Oklahoma Pleading Code; Recipient, Earl Sneed
Award, 1985 & 2001, for Outstanding Continuing Legal Education Contribution.
- Oklahoma County Bar Association Member, Civil Justice Reform Act (1990) Advisory Group of the United
States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma; Chairman, Early Intervention Subcommittee; Leader and
Promoter in Development of the Early Neutral Evaluation Program; Leo H. Whinery Distinguished Service
Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Oklahoma Law of Evidence, December of 2000.
- Texas Trial Lawyer Association Member.
- Honorary Memberships Iowa Trial Lawyers Association and Idaho Trial Lawyers Association.
EDUCATION
- Juris Doctor Degree, The University of Oklahoma Law School, 1966; Member of Law Review, Member of the
Order of the Coif, President of Class; Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity; Dean’s Honor Roll;
Scholastically ranked 8th of 146 graduating seniors.
- Bachelor of Arts Degree, The University of Oklahoma, 1963.
SPECIAL NOTES
- Admitted to practice before all Courts in the State of Oklahoma.
- Admitted to practice before United State District Courts and the United States Court of Appeals.
- Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
- Listed in the "Best Lawyers in America" as one of the "top guns" of the legal profession from 1987
through 1999/00.
- Obtained five jury verdicts in excess of $1,000,000, including one in 1989 for $10,000,000 - the
largest jury verdict for personal injury awarded in Oklahoma at the time.
- Elected by The University of Oklahoma College of Law Faculty as Honorary Member, Order of Barristers,
1982;
- Recognition as outstanding trial attorney in the State of Oklahoma.
- Frequent lecturer for the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association.
- Frequently teaches at the Oklahoma University School of Law.
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