By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter –
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Metropolis College College of Legislation has introduced 5 new Alumni Affiliation Board members starting July 1 for the 2023-2023 yr. Lauren Brown, Benjamin Grubb, Kari Hawthorne, Katherine Mazaheri and Kelli Stump every will serve a three-year time period.
A 2013 OCU College of Legislation graduate, Lauren Brown serves as company counsel at Love’s Journey Stops & Nation Shops, Inc., the place she directs and manages company governance for greater than 50 non-public entities. Whereas at OCU Legislation, she was Oklahoma Metropolis College Legislation Evaluate workers editor, an Educational Scholar and recipient the CALI Award for Contracts I, Civil Process I, Torts I, Leisure Legislation & Enterprise, Army Legislation and Veterans Legislation. She graduated cum laude from OCU Legislation.
Additionally graduating from the varsity in 2013, Benjamin Grubb is an lawyer at DeWitt, Paruolo & Meek. Whereas in regulation college, he served as government editor of the Oklahoma Metropolis College Legislation Evaluate and authored Exorcising Ghosts of the Previous: An Exploration of Alcoholic Beverage Regulation in Oklahoma, which was revealed in 2012. Grubb additionally was an energetic member of Phi Delta Phi and the William J. Holloway Jr. American Inn of Courtroom. He obtained quite a few honors, together with CALI awards in Litigation Follow Sequence and Authorized Analysis and Writing.
Kari Hawthorne is a 2006 graduate from OCU Legislation. A associate at Johnson Hanan Vosler Hawthorne & Snider, she defends a wide range of particular person and company purchasers in medical malpractice and private harm instances in civil district, appellate, and administrative proceedings. Hawthorne is AV Preeminent rated from Martindale Hubbell and a barrister within the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inn of Courtroom. She is a member of the Protection Analysis Institute, a board member of the Oklahoma Affiliation of Protection Counsel, and sits on the Bench and Bar Committee of the OBA.
Graduating in 2007, Katherine Mazaheri is founding member and lawyer at Mazaheri Legislation, the place she is a trial lawyer who represents plaintiff workers in all areas of employment regulation, together with litigation in state and federal courts, mediation, and earlier than administrative businesses such because the Equal Employment Alternative Fee, Division of Labor and Oklahoma Employment Safety Fee. She was AV Preeminent Ranking by Martindale-Hubbell in 2019, AV Peer Evaluate by Martindale Hubbell for 2023 and listed as a 2023 Tremendous Lawyer Rising Star. Mazaheri is delegate to the Oklahoma Bar Affiliation Home of Delegates, vice chair of the Labor and Employment Board of the Oklahoma Bar Affiliation, 2023 board of administrators for Oklahoma Attorneys for Youngsters and is on the board of administrators for the Oklahoma County Bar Affiliation.
Kelli Stump is a 2006 alumna and the proprietor of Kelli Stump PLLC, whose major focus is on family-based immigration, complicated deportation with emphasis on “crimmigration” issues resulting in inadmissibility and deportability and federal litigation within the immigration context.
Stump has been acknowledged as a Rising Star for Tremendous Attorneys in Oklahoma and was chosen by her friends to be included in Greatest Attorneys in America, the place she was named 2023 “Lawyer of the 12 months” for Immigration Legislation in Oklahoma Metropolis. Stump is a member of the American Immigration Attorneys Affiliation, the place at the moment serves as 2nd vice chairman of the Nationwide Government Committee. She has additionally served on the board of administrators for the Oklahoma County Bar Affiliation.
As members of the Alumni Affiliation Board, they are going to work to help present college students, foster relationships between alumni and college students and advance the mission of excellence in authorized schooling on the college.
OCU College of Legislation is positioned within the coronary heart of Oklahoma’s capital metropolis. Based in 1902, it has cultivated the authorized leaders of a worldwide group. Residence to many clinics and applications, OCU College of Legislation presents college students instant, real-world experiences in enterprise, prison, and household regulation.
Oklahoma Metropolis College College of Legislation, totally accepted by the American Bar Affiliation, is a member of the Affiliation of American Legislation Faculties. It serves a various scholar physique of roughly 400. Oklahoma Metropolis College College of Legislation’s practically 7,000 alumni observe in each state and several other overseas international locations.
For extra data on the varsity and its clinics, go to regulation.okcu.edu.
