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RÉSUMÉ OF DOERNER, SAUNDERS, DANIEL & ANDERSON, L.L.P.
2006 - 2007
Tracing our origins to pre-statehood, DSDA is one of the oldest law firms in the state of Oklahoma. In 2006, our firm consists of forty-six attorneys. The firm maintains offices in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Together, we engage in every major area of civil practice.
Our practice rests on a wide base of established corporate clients, and with each year comes a steady flow of new clients specially seeking the varied expertise of Doerner Saunders. We represent a variety of large and small corporations, partnerships, trusts, estates, and individuals, including public utilities, cities and towns, commercial banks, savings and loan associations, manufacturing companies, insurance companies, hospitals and associated health care organizations, railroads, securities brokerage houses, charitable foundations, television stations, and mass media holding companies. This wide-ranging representation in litigation and corporate finance affords great opportunity for diversity. Our practice emphasizes the law fields of corporate planning, commercial, banking, real estate, construction law, finance, tax, antitrust, health care, bankruptcy, trademarks, trade secrets, labor and employment law, civil rights, insurance defense, oil and gas, securities, utilities, mass communications, workers compensation, and litigation in all fields except criminal law.
Our policy of steady but measured growth has enabled the firm to react to various economic cycles. By general policy, we fill our full-time hiring needs from those directly out of law school or after judicial clerkships.
Each fall, our on-campus interviews reach law schools throughout the country. For second year law students, we view our Summer Associate Program as a key means of mutual evaluation for full-time employment. We take great care to assign work to our summer associates with this purpose in mind.
We search for people whose academic record and demonstrated motivation convince us that the individual has partnership potential. Because of the unique conditions affecting the Southwest, our firm's clients have particularly diverse needs, not only regionally but nationally and internationally. Essential to our practice, then, is for every new attorney to possess the kind of excellent analytical skills and considerable maturity necessary for direct client contact and major responsibility early in one's legal career.
During the fall of 2006, final consideration for partnership will go to associates who have completed seven calendar years' tenure with the firm.
Beginning associates who will start in 2006 will receive an annual salary of $80,000, plus an $8,000 association bonus, one-half payable upon acceptance and the balance due upon law school graduation. The firm will also pay the cost of bar review study courses for new bar applicants. Additional paid benefits include life, medical and disability insurance; a profit sharing retirement plan; parking fees; and various club dues. Also, all attorneys receive a budget for continuing legal education. Our 2L summer associates for 2006 will receive a salary of $1,550 per week.
We are particularly proud of the diversity among our attorneys, not only in their backgrounds but in their interests and viewpoints brought to the practice of law. Our attorneys completed undergraduate work at over twenty-five different colleges and universities in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. They received their law degrees from eighteen law schools, including, Arkansas, Columbia, Duke, Franklin Pierce, George Washington, Michigan, New Mexico, New York University, Ohio State, Oklahoma University, Oklahoma City University, Southern Methodist, Tennessee, Texas, University of Tulsa, University of San Francisco, Vanderbilt and Yale.
Our attorneys participate actively in bar and civic affairs. Presently, they hold leadership positions in such organizations as The American Diabetes Association, The American Heart Association, The Tulsa County Bar Association, Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Theatre Tulsa, The Tulsa Public School Board, The United Way and United Way agencies and other public service organizations. Additionally, several attorneys have served on the adjunct faculty at the Tulsa University law school and conduct Bar and CLE seminars.
We believe that Doerner Saunders offers a practice with all the hallmarks of a fulfilling legal career: an abundance of challenging legal problems to develop lawyering skills, a constant call for creativity in fashioning remedies for clients, and a high degree of financial rewards, all in the collegial atmosphere of a 46-lawyer firm. Moreover, the cities of Tulsa and Oklahoma City offer a very comfortable lifestyle for all. We invite third year students seeking full-time employment and second year students seeking summer employment to direct their résumés to Charles S. Plumb, Esq., of our firm. You may also wish to visit our website at www.dsda.com.
TULSA
Tulsa has long been known as one of America's most attractive cities, in physical beauty, living conditions, and amenities. In several surveys, Tulsa has consistently rated as one of the nation's three most "livable" cities. The Tulsa metropolitan area has a population of approximately 900,000 which offers the advantages of a city but ease of access to all portions of the community offering multiple opportunities for an expanding law practice and an environment conducive to family life.
Tulsa's economy has diversified significantly in recent years. Alongside many petroleum-related businesses, it now includes computer, telecommunications, aerospace, insurance and light manufacturing industries as major employers. Tulsa has two major private universities, one law school, and two medical schools. It is also home to the campuses of Oklahoma State University at Tulsa and University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, both including extensive research centers. Among Tulsa's cultural attractions is its Performing Arts Center which presents a year-round program of nationally prominent musicians, dramatic productions, and dance companies. Tulsa's local opera and ballet companies are both among the finest regional companies in the country and regularly attract top international stars for their productions. Tulsa is also home to the Gilcrease and Philbrook Art Museums and several theater companies. For sports fans, Tulsa has first-rate collegiate competition in all major sports, as well as AA baseball, CHL hockey, sailing, water skiing, arena football and USISL soccer. The numerous lakes of Eastern Oklahoma offer outstanding opportunities for hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor recreation within a short driving distance.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Oklahoma City is the capital city of Oklahoma with a metropolitan population of more than one million. The driving pioneer spirit of Oklahoma City's founders is reflected through the city's excellent quality of life, world-class business opportunities, distinguished transportation system, dynamic educational health care systems and low cost of living. In fact, nationwide studies continually rank Oklahoma City's market as one of the country's most affordable. With more than nine hundred manufacturers, some six thousand retailers, numerous distributors, corporate headquarters and high tech companies, Oklahoma City has a diversified economy offering significant opportunities for a successful law practice.
Oklahoma City also boasts a multitude of thrilling attractions and intriguing museums, including horseracing and a top-ranked zoo to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the nearby Omniplex and Myriad Botanical Gardens. The arts and entertainment talent in Oklahoma City comes from a vast pool of local performers as well as world-renowned artists. From the sophistication of Ballet Oklahoma, the Philharmonic or the Oklahoma Opera and Music Theatre to the country western flavor of the Oklahoma Opry and local theatre groups, Oklahoma City offers a wide array of entertainment options. For the sports enthusiast, Oklahoma City is flanked to the north and south by two Big Twelve schools -- the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys. Oklahoma City also has professional baseball and hockey as well as auto racing, rodeos and thoroughbred horseracing.
With plenty of lakes for sailing and water sports, parks and jogging trails as well as quality tennis courts and challenging golf courses, including a top rated PGA golf course, Oklahoma City is a marvelous playground for the outdoor enthusiast. Oklahoma City also is known for its beautiful parks and neighborhoods, friendly residents and comfortable lifestyle, all of which make Oklahoma City an ideal place to live and develop a rewarding law practice.
