Gale Allison

Mediator | Attorney (ret.)

Areas of Expertise  -- Business Succession Issues (buy/sell agreements, shareholder agreements, succession plan challenges, etc.), Business and workplace disputes, Beneficiary / Fiduciary Disputes, Divorce, Estate Planning, Estate and Trust Litigation, Elder and Adult Care and Guardianship Challenges, Fiduciary and Death Tax Allocations, Inheritance Disputes, Real Estate Contests, Wills or Trust Contests, and Professional Negligence in these areas.

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Gale Graham Allison, JD, LLM is a nationally certified litigation and also eldercare mediator through the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University. She is also certified in divorce mediation through the Stovall Institute. She has been mediating disputes since 2015. She retired from practicing law after forty-nine years of practice. She started her career as a litigator for HEW, followed by a stint in the IRS and then to private practice handling estates, trusts, taxes, business succession, prenuptial contracts, tax aspects of divorce, professional negligence in estates and trusts and the litigation associated with these issues. She focuses solely on mediation. She speaks nationwide for lawyer, CPA, and financial professionals' continuing education, as well as for business groups and general public education. She has served on the mediator panel of Dispute Resolution Consultants since 2017.

Education

  • Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA -- L.L.M. Taxation

  • University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN -- Juris Doctor

  • University of Georgia, Athens, GA -- Bachelor of Arts in English

Mediation and Dispute Resolution Education and Training

  • Certified: Elder Care Mediation, Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution

  • Certified: Mediating the Litigated Case, Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution

  • Certified: Family and Divorce Mediation, The Mediation Institute

Bar Admissions

  • Oklahoma (retired from Tennessee and Georgia)

  • U.S. Court of Appeals 4th, 5th, 6th and 10th Circuits

  • U.S. Tax Court

  • U.S. Supreme Court

 Recognitions

  • AV-rated Pre-eminent Lawyer, Martindale.com

  • Accredited Estate Planner/AEP® designation by NAEPC

Professional Affiliations

  • Tulsa County Bar Association

  • Wagoner County Bar Association

  • Oklahoma Bar Association (Past Chair of Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section)

  • American Bar Association

  • Estate Planning Forum of Tulsa

  • Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association

Professional Experience

  • Dispute Resolution Consultants, Inc. – Mediator Panel

  • Schaffer, Herring, PLLC – Director

  • The Allison Firm, PLLC – Founder and Managing Attorney

  • Pray, Walker PC – Special Counsel

  • Witt, Gaither and Whitaker, Inc. – Partner

  • Internal Revenue Service – Estate Tax Attorney

  • HEW – General Litigation Attorney

 

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