Jon CartledgeDirector
A director in the firm’s Tulsa office, Jon Cartledge is a member of the Appellate, Insurance, Litigation & Trial, and Product Liability Practice Groups. His practice focuses on legal research and brief writing as well as preparing oral arguments at the trial and appellate court levels.
Jon has more than 21 years of trial experience representing clients in state and federal court on matters regarding civil and commercial litigation including multimillion dollar tort litigation, insurance defense, and intellectual property. He also has particular experience serving as lead counsel in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases involving the oil and gas industry. From 2014 – 2016, John was named a Rising Star by Oklahoma Super Lawyers.*
He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law graduating as the salutatorian. While in law school, he served as the notes and comments editor of the Tulsa Law Review, Chief Justice of the College of Law Supreme Court, and listed in the Order of the Curule Chair. He completed his undergraduate studies at Oral Roberts University where he graduated summa cum laude.
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Super Lawyers magazine.
Representative experience includes*:
- Lead on motion practice and member of trial team for large oilfield services company in three-week wrongful death trial regarding five workers in an oil rig blowout. Plantiffs sought $100 million each, but successfully contained verdict to $1 million per plaintiff (10% of $10 million verdict)
- Lead on motion practice and member of trial team for national pipeline company if four-week trial over a pipeline explosion and fire seriously injuring two workers. Defense strategy was to contain and control verdict outcome. Jury award was exactly what defense suggested as a proper result.
- Granted summary judgement by numerous state and federal courts in significant litigation.
*Past results afford no guarantee of future results. Every case is different and must be judged on its merits.
University of Tulsa College of Law
Tulsa, OK
J.D., 2001
Honors:
Salutatorian
Law Review
Order of the Curule, Chair
Chief Justice of the College of Law Supreme Court
Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, OK
B.A., 1998
Honors:
Summa Cum Laude
Government Department Student of the Year, 1998
- Oklahoma, 2001
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, 2001
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, 2001
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, 2001
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, 2008
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 2015
- Ranked in Oklahoma Super Lawyers as a Rising Star, 2014-2016
- Co-Author, Contribution and Indemnity Law in Oklahoma, Oklahoma Bar Journal 84 No. 2, 2014.
- "Contribution and Indemnity in Oklahoma, Mayes County Bar Association, 2015; Tulsa County Bar Association, 2015
- "Oklahoma Tort Law Update, Zurich North America Claims Adjusters Seminar, 2014
- "Oklahoma's Newest Tort Reform, Zurich North America Claims Adjusters Seminar, 2009
