Six new associates join law firm’s Oklahoma City office
OKLAHOMA CITY – Six new attorneys have joined Crowe & Dunlevy’s Oklahoma City office. Miguel Angel Figueroa, Amanda Mayo Finch, T. Dylan Hartsook, Lucas Meacham, Sarah Simpson and Chandler G. McDonald join the firm as associate attorneys.
Figueroa joins the firm as a member of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group where he assists clients with general commercial litigation matters. He received his Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law where he was a Merit Scholar and a member of the Law Review. Figueroa received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University. He also attended the University of Southern Australia as a Bailey Scholar. Prior to law school, Figueroa served for two years with the United States Peace Corps.
A former law enforcement officer, Finch is a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group. Finch graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she served as president of the Federal Bar Association. Prior to joining Crowe & Dunlevy, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amanda Maxfield Green, Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Finch earned her undergraduate degree from Southern Nazarene University and her Master of Arts from Oklahoma City University. While completing her undergraduate degree, Amanda studied abroad at the University of Oxford.
Hartsook assists clients in a variety of commercial disputes as a member of the Construction, Litigation & Trial, Product Liability, and Real Estate Practice Groups. Hartsook graduated with Honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma where he was a member of the football team and was listed on the Big XII Commissioner’s Honor Roll. Prior to law school, he coached high school football.
Meacham focuses his practice on a broad range of business and corporate matters as a member of the Banking & Financial Institutions, Corporate & Securities, and Private Wealth & Closely-Held Business Practice Groups. He received his Juris Doctor with Highest Honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Prior to law school, Meacham graduated with Special Distinction from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance.
A registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Simpson assists clients with patent prosecution and trademark rights as a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. Simpson graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma College of Law where she served as a legal intern at the OU Office of Technology Commercialization. She completed her undergraduate studies at Oklahoma State University graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. While at OSU, Simpson gained valuable technical experience as an undergraduate research scholar for the OSU Department of Biochemistry, and through an internship as a Lloyd Noble Scholar in Plant Science for the Noble Research Institute.
A member of the Private Wealth & Closely-Held Business Practice Group, McDonald’s practice focuses on estate planning and includes trust and estate administration. McDonald received her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law. During law school, she gained practical legal experience as a member of the Startup North Carolina Clinic where she assisted small business owners with various transactional needs. She also served as a research assistant for the Prosecutors and Politics Project and was a member of the North Carolina Journal of International Law. She graduated with distinction from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism.
“We are pleased to welcome this talented group of associates to our Oklahoma City office,” said Roger A. Stong, Crowe & Dunlevy’s president and CEO. “These young lawyers represent the future of our profession, and we are excited to watch them grow into the next generation of legal leaders.”