D. Kent Meyers

  • Adjunct Professor

Education

B.B.A., Finance, University of Oklahoma, 1960

J.D., University of Oklahoma, 1964

LL.M., Harvard University, 1976

About

Kent Meyers is a Director of the law firm Crowe & Dunlevy. He has been an adjunct professor of the OU College of Law since 1982 teaching Antitrust I and II, Trial Techniques, Professional Responsibility and Bankruptcy. He is also an adjunct professor of Oklahoma City University Law School, teaching Antitrust I, Antitrust II and the Legal Profession, and the University of Tulsa Law School teaching Antitrust I and II. Meyers was a Distinguished Lecturer in Law and taught Remedies at Brasenose College, Oxford University in 2001.

Meyers’ law practice has been focused on antitrust and complex commercial litigation since 1972. He also handles patent, copyright and trademark matters, as well as arbitration. He is one of two co-founders of Oklahoma Lawyers for Children, a non-profit group with over 1300 volunteers in Oklahoma County that provides volunteer lawyers to work with the Public Defenders' Office in representing deprived children in Juvenile Court. He is the founder of the Crowe & Dunlevy International Professorship Program, a program that brings a foreign Harvard LL.M. or S.J.D. graduate to the University of Oklahoma College of Law to teach for a semester under the sponsorship of Crowe & Dunlevy.

 

Additional Information

Publications

Mortgages: Circular Priority

1964

Oklahoma Law Review

Real Estate Transactions, Rates and the Uniform Consumer Credit Code

1970

Oklahoma Law Review

Oklahoma UCC's Labeling and Marketing of Attorney's Fees

1973

Oklahoma Bar Journal

Multi-State Motor Vehicle Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code: an Update

1977

Oklahoma Law Review

Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Code, Chapter 30A

1977

P. Coogan, Hogan & Vagts

Ethical Considerations in the Representation of Multiple Creditors Against a Single Debtor

1977

The American Bankruptcy Law Journal

Oklahoma Bar Journal

Significant Developments in Commercial Law

1980

Oklahoma Bar Journal

A Nagging Commercial Problem Is Solved

1980

Oklahoma Bar Journal

Oklahoma Adopts 1972 Amendments to Uniform Commercial Code

1982

Oklahoma City Unviersity Law Review

The Creditor Trap: Scheduling Debts as "Disputed, Contingent or Unliquidated" in Chapter 11 Cases

1994

Quarterly Report, Conference on Consumer Finance Law

Private Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws Works Occasionally: The Board of Regents of the Univ. Of Okla. V. NCAA, A Case in Point

1995

Oklahoma Law Review

Oklahoma's New Antitrust Reform Act

1998

Oklahoma Bar Journal

Recent Developments in Oklahoma Antitrust Law

2005

Oklahoma Law Review

Courses Taught

J.D.:

  • Antitrust I 5703
  • Selected Issiues in Antitrust Practice 6100

Awards & Honors

  • Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service relating to Oklahoma Lawyers for Children, OBA, 1999.
  • Outstanding Trial Lawyer in Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma College of Law, 1982.
  • “Bet the Company” Litigation, Antitrust, Bankruptcy and Business Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America.
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year it has been published.  In the most recent edition was listed in the following six categories: Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation, Bet-The-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Communication Law, Litigation-Antitrust and Litigation-Bankruptcy. 
  • Named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Oklahoma City Litigation – Antitrust Lawyer of the Year – only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” 
  • Listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers, as a leading lawyer in Oklahoma. 
  • Listed in Benchmark, the definitive guide to America’s leading litigation firms and attorneys, as a local litigation star. 
  • Listed in Law Dragon, 500 leading litigators in the United States, only attorney in Oklahoma listed. 
  • Oklahoma Super Lawyers. 

[All of these above referenced publications are gathered by independent peer review ratings, not by application or payment of any money.]

  • Selected Outstanding Adjunct Professor of Law at University of Oklahoma College of Law, 2018-2019.

Professional Associations

Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers

Member of the National Association of Counsel for Children

Member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association

Member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association

Order of Barristers

Media

Co-host with former Mayor Mick Cornett of the television show The Verdict since April 1, 2001. The Verdict airs weekly in Oklahoma City and Tulsa on Cox.

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