Jeff Curran
Mediator | Attorney
Areas of Expertise - Insurance, Intellectual Property, Product Liability, General Commercial, Entertainment, Auto Negligence, Fire and Explosion, Trucking, Insurance Coverage/Bad Faith
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Jeff Curran
Jeff Curran is a Shareholder in the Oklahoma City office of GableGotwals. His practice focuses on product liability defense, insurance matters, intellectual property litigation, and commercial litigation. He also maintains an entertainment law practice, representing motion picture production companies, musicians, and recording companies in contract negotiation, licensing and related areas. Jeff is a past Chair and Vice Chair of the Defense Research Institute’s Automotive Specialized Litigation Group, as well as the former Chair and Newsletter Editor for the Automobile Law Committee of the ABA’s Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section.
Jeff the author of Expert Witnesses: Automobile and Accident Reconstruction Cases, a Thomson Reuters publication now in its 12th edition. He has also written on various other subjects in litigation and commercial litigation, and has written and presented several lectures on professionalism and ethics.
Jeff is also a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator.
He is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) the National Fire Protection Association; the National Association of Fire Investigators; the ABA’s Products, General Liability and Consumer Law Committee, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Intellectual Property Committee, Litigation Committee, and the Entertainment and Sports Law Forum. He is a member of the DRI’s Product Liability Committee, Insurance Law Committee, and Trucking Law Committee.
Jeff is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma County Bar Association. In addition, he is a past member (and former President) of the Board of Directors for The Children’s Center Rehabilitation Hospital in Bethany.
Jeff is admitted to practice in all state courts in Oklahoma, as well as the United States District Courts for the Western, Northern and Eastern District of Oklahoma, the United States District Court for Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has appeared as regional and national counsel for some clients, and has tried cases to verdict in several States.
Jeff’s recent experience includes:
Representing a major pharmaceutical company in multi-state product-liability-related matters.
Successfully trying to verdict an injury case defending a large international retail business.
Successfully obtaining summary judgement for an insurance carrier in a major coverage dispute.
Representing an international satellite television company in various litigation matters.
Representing several major consumer goods manufacturers in various product liability-related matters.
Representing a motion picture production company in the negotiation of a large-budget motion picture
production.
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