Academy Member Inducted 2025
Dwight L. Smith
Mid-Continent Tower, Suite 1600
401 S Boston
Tulsa, OK 74103
Video ConferencingAvailable
- Practice Commenced18
- # of MEDS (as of 30/1/25)320
- # of ARBS (as of 30/1/25)20
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
- FORT SMITH
- OKLAHOMA CITY
- TULSA
Biographical
Dwight graduated from The University of Tulsa College Law School in 1981, with honors and has been in private practice since 1981. He was a solo practitioner from 2003 – 2022. He completed the prestigious Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Summer Professional Skills Program - A Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies – in June, 2007 and the American Arbitration Association University’s Arbitration Fundamentals and Best Practices in January, 2011 and has been providing mediation and arbitration services since 2005. He is recognized by Super Lawyers (Business and Corporate) and Best Lawyers in America (Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law). He joined DRC as a mediator and arbitrator in 2020. He has been an American Arbitration Association Arbitrator since 2011 and currently serves on the AAA's national commercial, construction and consumer panels.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Agricultural
- Arts (Fine/Performing)
- Automotive
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Creditors
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Condominiums
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Debt Collections
- Discrimination
- Divorce (High Asset)
- Education
- EEOC
- Elder Abuse
- Eminent Domain
- Employment
- Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
- Engineering
- Entertainment Sector
- Family Businesses
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Industrial
- Insurance
- Land Use/Planning
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Lemon Law
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Native American
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Personal Injury
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Real Estate
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Sports
- Taxation
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Trademarks/Patents
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Venture Capital
- Wrongful Death
Education
- University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma J.D., May, 1981, with honors
- University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- B.S., Mass Media News, May, 1978, with honors
- Pepperdine University School of Law Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
- Summer Professional Skills Program - A Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies - June, 2007
- American Arbitration Association University
- Arbitration Fundamental and Best Practices for New AAA Arbitrators - January, 2011
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Arbitration Association – Commercial, Construction and Consumer Panels
- Tulsa County District Court – Adjunct Settlement Judge
- American Bar Association – Former Member House of Delegates
- American Bar Association – Former Chair, Veteran’s Legal Services Commission
- American Bar Association – Former Member, Commission on the Future of Legal Services
- American Bar Association – Former Chair Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services
- American Bar Association – Former Chair, tanding Committee on Group and Prepaid Legal Services
- American Bar Association – Former Chair, Standing Committee on Public Education
- American Bar Association – Former Chair, Youth at Risk Commission (Presidential Initiative)
- American Bar Association – Former Chair, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division
- Community Bank Director
- Best Lawyers in America
- Super Lawyers
Rates Information
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