Linda Kaufmann, a partner of the firm, focuses her practice on legal research, writing and analysis. Linda has over twenty years experience drafting pleadings, critical motions, trial briefs, appellate briefs, and memoranda on procedural and substantive issues arising in the firm’s practice areas of product liability, insurance defense, warranty litigation, bad faith litigation, employment litigation, commercial litigation, and general civil litigation.  Linda provides research and writing support for the firm’s attorneys and clients at every stage of a case, from initial evaluation through trial and appeal.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

  • Product Liability
  • Insurance Defense
  • Employment Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Civil Appeals

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar of Oklahoma – 1991
  • United States District Courts for the Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma
  • United States Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
  • United States Supreme Court

EDUCATION

  • Oklahoma City University School of Law, J.D. 1991 cum laude
  • University of Oklahoma, B.A. in Journalism 1988

HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • Editor-in-Chief, Oklahoma City University Law Review
  • Recipient, Journal Record Award for Outstanding Third Year Law Student
  • Academic Achievement Award for Legal Research & Writing II
  • Academic Achievement Award for Federal Jurisdiction
  • Academic Achievement Award for Trial Practice
  • Academic Achievement Award for Complex Litigation

PUBLICATIONS

  • Arizona v. Youngblood, State Advance in Criminal Proceedings: The Ghost is Real and the Haunting Continues, 14 Okla. City Univ. Law Review 665 (Fall 1989)

REPORTED CASES

  • Caterpillar Inc. v. Trinity Industries, Inc., 134 P.3d 881 (Okla. Civ. App. 2006); Telecor Communications v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 305 F.3d 1124 (10th Cir. 2002)

FRATERNITIES/SORORITIES

  • Phi Delta Phi

ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

  • Member—Oklahoma Bar Association
  • Member—Oklahoma County Bar Association