gablegotwals tulsa biz 4-23-14
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Vol. 105, No. 39 | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 A Daily Journal of Commerce Since 1909 www.tulsabusiness.com | $1.00
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KRISTEN JOHNSON NAMEDREGIONAL MANAGER
Kristen Johnson, Co-Owner and Cen-ter Director of Brain Balance Achieve-ment Center in Tulsa, has been named regional nanager for the corporate of-fi ce. In her new role, Johnson oversees 35 markets spanning from Oklahoma to California.
“This new role allows me to share some of the best practices we have implemented here in Tulsa on a na-tionwide scale,” Johnson said.
In her new capacity, Johnson will work with new and existing franchi-sees to both support and grow centers across the country. She will remain based in Tulsa.
Johnson was promoted to the new national position after two years as a leading Center Director in the Brain Balance system. The Tulsa center con-sistently ranks among the top four centers nationwide. Johnson, along with her husband and co-owner Isaac Johnson D.C., have worked with more than 200 families since the local center opened in late 2011.
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Law school support continuing focusBeverly Smith, alumni president, continues promoting growth
For Beverly Smith, the continued alumni support of The University of Tulsa College of Law has played a key role in her position as the TU Alumni Association president.
It is a role that she willingly took on fol-lowing her predecessor Bill LaSorsa and pre-vious leaders, each of whom have continually worked towards the promotion and growth of the law school.
Smith will hand the presidential reins over to Melinda Kirk, a Conner & Winters attor-ney, when her term ends.
The partner at the Conner & Winters Law Firm will see her responsibilities wind down as the May 10 law school gala starts. But it won’t be the end of her association work. She will step into different roles as needed.
“I have had the wonderful support of board members as well as law school professors and staff,” she said. “The entire effort has been
on building relationships. We heard from new professors and learned about their cut-ting edge research and professionalism. We received monthly reports from Dean Janet Levit and learned about the new access to le-gal education scholarship.
“The real highlight during the year was experiencing the excitement and energy felt in the law school. This is the fi rst time that one hundred percent of the TU law-graduat-ing students passed the Oklahoma Bar exam. Rick Burr, University of Tulsa College of Law development director, has new activities that continued the excitement.
“Law fi rms, including Conner & Winters, Jones Gotcher and Rogers and Bell received perfect marks for the 100 percent of giving for the law fi rms.”
Smith, who took over from LaSorsa, picked up on his enthusiasm to encourage law fi rm giving to the school and participate
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Beverly Smith, Tulsa University College of Law Alumni president.
Immigration clinic worthwhile
Lorena Rivas Tiemann greeted a couple and a boy in Spanish as they came into the Hicks Park lobby.
They answered to the affirmative that
they had come to seek information about the immigration procedures and whether or not they could be helped with their is-sues.
The trio was one out of approximately a dozen that participated in the Immigra-tion Clinic sponsored by the Tulsa County
Bar Association. It was the first time the clinic was offered as part of Law Week ac-tivities.
Tiemann, with the Guthrie & Rivas Law Firm, and Cesar Tavares with Gable-Gotwals, expressed some disappointment at the small turnout, but felt the initial ef-fort was worthwhile.
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Light turnout ‘disappointing’
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