LEGAL AREA OF CONCENTRATION

Personal Injury
Employer Workplace Defense
Mediation

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. McCormick is a shareholder and trial lawyer in the law firm of Pray Walker. Mr. McCormick has over thirty years of trial experience. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers publications. He has represented insurers and product manufacturers, as well as persons who have been injured by defective products, medical negligence, and in vehicular crashes. Mr. McCormick also represents employers in the defense of wrongful termination cases.

Mr. McCormick is a senior Adjunct Settlement Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He also conducts private mediations and arbitrations. He is a Master Emeritus in the Hudson-Wheaton Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

Mr. McCormick is admitted to practice in Oklahoma and California as well as the United State District Courts for the Northern, Western, and Eastern Districts for Oklahoma, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of California (San Diego), as well as the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

University of Notre Dame
Bachelor of Arts (1966)

University of Oklahoma College of Law
Juris Doctorate (1974)

LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers

Best Lawyers in America

Super Lawyers

Oklahoma Bar Association
•Former member of the Professional Responsibility Tribuna

State Bar of California

Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association

Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Tulsa County Bar Association
• Former Chairman of the Fee Arbitration Committee, Ethics Committee, and the Grievance Committee
• Former member of the Board of Directors of the Tulsa County Bar

MILITARY

Captain, U. S. Marine Corps (1967 to 1971; 1974-1976)

REPRESENTATIVE LITIGATION EXPERIENCE

Defense

• Asbestos producers and manufacturers (product liability)
• Silica producers and manufacturers (product liability)
• Material handling manufacturers (product liability)
• Public utilities (power line injuries and boating crashes)
• Governmental Entities (Vehicular crashes and premises liability)
• Property and casualty insurers (premises liability and bad faith)
• Automobile insurers (automobiles, trucks, buses, bad faith and contract)
• Health insurers (contract and bad faith)
• Trucking companies (vehicle crashes)
• Equipment Manufacturers (product liability)
• Employers (retaliatory discharge, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA))

Personal Injury or Wrongful Death

• Machine Design Defects
• Premises Defects
• Vehicular Crashes (trains, automobiles, motorcycles, and trucks)
• Vehicular Defects (post collision fuel fed fires and roof crushes)
• Medical Negligence (obstetrics, anesthesia, surgery, cardiology, emergency room)

Representative Appellate Decisions:

• Rose v. Sapulpa RRD, 1981 OK 85, 631 P.2d 752 (fire loss)
• Brown v. McGraw, Edison, 736 F.2d 609 (1984) (product liability – iron press)
• White v. Basnett, 1985 OK Civ. App. 10, 700 P.2d 666 (defamation)
• Studebaker v. Cohen, 1987 OK 100, 747 P.2d 274 (medical negligence)
• Pierce v. Franklin Electric, 1987 OK 34, 737, P.2d 921 (retaliatory discharge)
• Dillon v. Fiberboard, 919 F.2d 1488 (1990) (asbestos product liability)
• Hughey v. GRDA, 1995 OK 56, 897, P.2d 1138 (boating crash)
• Ingram v. Muskogee Regional Hospital, 235 F.3d 550 (10th C., 2000) (medical negligence)
• Lusk v. Ryder Integrated Services, 238 F.3d 1237 (2001) (Americans with Disabilities Act)
• Baker v. St. Francis Hospital, 2005 OK 36, ____ P.3d ____ (day care facility liability)