Timila S. Rother, President/CEOAttorney
Timila Rother is president and CEO of Crowe & Dunlevy. She also served five years on the firm’s Executive Committee before becoming CEO in 2016. She continues her legal practice while managing the firm and is the chair of Crowe & Dunlevy’s Insurance Practice Group. In addition to first-party insurance litigation, she litigates cases and consults with clients in a number of industries including healthcare, environmental, direct-selling and other complex, commercial business areas as well as handles class action litigation in those industries. Timila has significant experience not only in state and federal court, but has litigated many cases in arbitration as well. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial, Healthcare and Appellate Practice Groups, in addition to the Insurance Group.
Experienced in ethics and professional liability matters, Timila served as loss prevention and claims counsel for the firm prior to becoming firm president and CEO. Timila has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers for Insurance Law, named a 2016 Benchmark Litigation Star in Oklahoma and has been ranked by Super Lawyers since 2013 in the areas of insurance and/or business litigation.* She has been recognized by The Journal Record as a 50 Women Making a Difference honoree and selected as one of Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs by The Journal Record. She lectures on ethics, insurance, social media and healthcare topics.
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers and Benchmark Litigation publications.
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, OK
J.D., 1990
Honors:
With Honors
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
B.S., 1987
Honors:
With Honors
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2007
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Oklahoma, 1990
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Oklahoma, 1990
- U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma, 1990
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1990
- Oklahoma, 1990
- American Bar Association, Co-Chair of Professional Liability Litigation Subcommittee for Attorneys
- American Bar Association member of Health Law, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice, and Litigation
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Legal Ethics Advisory Panel (2006 – Present)
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Litigation Section Member
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Health Care Section Member
- Maurice H. Merrill Scholarship Recipient (1989 – 1990)
- Vivien McConnell Hood Scholarship Recipient
- University of Oklahoma National Mock Trial Team (1989 – 1990)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in Insurance Law, Commercial Litigation (2007 – Present)
- Ranked in Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Health Care, Professional Liability: Defense (2013 – Present)
- Panelist, 2nd Annual National Summit on Homeland Security Law: The State of Cyber, April 19, 2016, Oklahoma City, OK
- Speaker, "Legal Ethics: Hot Topics & Current Events," National Business Institute, December 17, 2013, Oklahoma City, OK
- University of Oklahoma, Assistant Research & Writing Instructor (1988 – 1990)
- Estate & Probate Ethics, 2002
- Insurance Update-Ethics, Oklahoma Bar Association, 2002
- Motions in Limine, Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association, 2001
