Malcolm E. Rosser IVShareholder/Director
Malcolm E. Rosser IV received a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from Oklahoma State University in 1977. After a year of graduate work in architectural engineering, he received his juris doctor from The University of Oklahoma in 1981. After 11 years of practice with another Tulsa law firm, Malcolm joined the Tulsa office of Crowe & Dunlevy as a director in September 1992.
Malcolm is in charge of the commercial Real Estate Practice Group in the firm’s Tulsa office. His practice includes commercial real estate acquisitions, development, construction and finance and lending, as well as zoning and land use, leasing and loan workouts. Malcolm 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 Preeminent® rating, the highest professional rating, from Martindale-Hubbell.* He was also selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers, named Best Lawyers 2019 Lawyer of the Year for construction law in Tulsa and named 2020 Lawyer of the Year for real estate law in Tulsa.* Malcolm has also been ranked by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in Oklahoma in the area of real estate law.*
- Selected by Tulsa Business & Legal News as a Power Attorney & Legal Professional, 2014
- Received an AV Preeminent® rating, the highest professional rating, from Martindale-Hubbell*
- Co-authored “Adverse Possession in Oklahoma: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?”, 72 Okla. Bar Journal 713, 2001
- Received the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Golden Quill Award for the outstanding scholarly article, 2001
- 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, 2001
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers and Martindale-Hubbell.
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, Oklahoma
J.D., 1981
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma
B.S., Architectural Engineering
- Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys
- Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America
- Member of the Tulsa Fair Housing Committee
- Member of the Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association
- Member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, Real Property Law Section
- Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Bar Association, Real Property Law Section (1991 – 1995)
- Chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, 1995
- Board of Directors Tulsa Chapter, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (1999 – 2004)
- Tulsa County Bar Association, Professional Responsibility Committee (1981 – 1985)
- Member of the American Bar Association, Mortgages and Other Debt Financing Subcommittee of the ABA Real Property Section (1981 – Present)
- Recipient, Tulsa Business & Legal News Power Attorney & Legal Professional, 2014
- Recipient, Oklahoma Bar Association Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award, 2001
- Leadership Tulsa Paragon Award, 2001
- Listed in Best Lawyers in the fields of Construction Law, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Land Use and Zoning, Real Estate Law (2009 – Present)
- Named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year (Tulsa) in Construction Law (2015, 2017, 2019)
- Named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year (Tulsa) in Real Estate Law (2016, 2020)
- Ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA in Real Estate Law (2016 – Present)
- "Adverse Possession in Oklahoma: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" (Co-Author, with Elizabeth Moseley Guse), 72 Okla. Bar Journal 713, 2001
- "Adverse Possession: No, It Has Not Come and Gone" (Co-Author, with Benjamin K. Davis), 87 Okla. Bar Journal 27, 2016
- "Gavel to Gavel: Getting a Survey," The Journal Record, December 7, 2016
- Speaker, "Legal Documents Commonly Associated With Plats and Subdivisions," Plat and Subdivision Law in Oklahoma Seminar, October 28, 2014, Tulsa, OK
- "Adverse Possession in Oklahoma: An Overview", Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association, 2002
- "Oklahoma Commercial Real Estate Loan Transactions Seminar", Oklahoma Bar Association, 1998
- Mental Health Association of Tulsa, Board of Directors (1992 – 2000); President, 2000; Capital Campaign Task Force (2000 – 2001)
- Leadership Oklahoma Class XXI
