D. Michael McBride III

Mr. McBride is chairman of the Firm’s Indian Law and Gaming Practice Group. McBride has dedicated his fourteen year legal career to Indian law, and has practiced primarily in the areas of federal Indian law and gaming, as well as complex federal, civil and criminal litigation. He is one of two Oklahoma General Members of the International Masters of Gaming Law.  In his new position with Crowe & Dunlevy, McBride will continue to represent tribes and tribal entities, as well as individuals and corporations conducting business with them. 

McBride has served as the Attorney General for the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox Nation and is currently a Justice for the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation.  He is Tenth Circuit Vice President, as well as Chair of the Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Section, the largest Indian law organization in the country.  McBride is also past chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Indian Law Section.  McBride will serve as General Counsel to the Federal Bar Association in 2008-09 and will sit as an ex-officio member of the national Board of Directors. 

He has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law and is the author of more than thirty published articles and papers on federal Indian law and litigation.  He currently serves as the associate editor of The Gaming Law Review.
McBride is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Tulsa County Bar Association and the American Indian Chamber of Commerce.  He has been recognized by "Oklahoma Super Lawyers" for Indian Gaming, Political Law, and Business, and by Best Lawyers in America for "Native American Law." 

The American Inns of Court, the Federal Bar Association, the American Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Tulsa County Bar Association have honored McBride with awards for his leadership, ethics and advocacy.