Malcolm E. Rosser IV

Malcolm E. Rosser IV received a Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree from Oklahoma State University in 1977.  After a year of graduate work in architectural engineering, he received his Juris Doctorate degree from The University of Oklahoma in 1981.  After 11 years of practice with another Tulsa law firm, Mr. Rosser joined the Tulsa office of the law firm of Crowe & Dunlevy as a director in September of 1992. 

Mr. Rosser is in charge of the commercial real estate practice in Crowe & Dunlevy's Tulsa office.  His law practice is concentrated in the area of commercial real estate transactions.  It includes commercial real estate acquisitions and finance and lending, as well as zoning and land use, leasing and loan workouts.  Mr. Rosser has particular expertise in the area of affordable housing, and especially low income housing tax credits, having represented both for-profit and non-profit developers as well as public housing authorities.  He has received an "av" rating, the highest professional rating, from Martindale-Hubbell.  Mr. Rosser is the co-author of  “Adverse Possession in Oklahoma: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?”, 72 Okla. Bar Journal 713 (2001).  In  2001 Mr. Rosser received the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Golden Quill Award for the outstanding scholarly article.

Mr. Rosser is a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association (where he served on the Professional Responsibility Committee), the Oklahoma Bar Association (Banking and Commercial Law Section and Real Property Law Section) and the American Bar Association, where he is a member of the Mortgages and Other Debt Financing Subcommittee of the ABA Real Property Section.  He has served as Director and Chair of the OBA Real Property Law Section and was a member of the Section’s Title Examination Standards Committee.  He has authored several articles concerning mortgage foreclosures, deficiency judgments, adverse possession and actions against guarantors.  He has also spoken on the subject of commercial real estate transactions, liens, foreclosures, adverse possession and related issues at numerous professional seminars. 

In 2001, Mr. Rosser received the Paragon Award from Leadership Tulsa, an award given annually to three outstanding leaders in community and non-profit affairs, for his work with the Mental Health Association.