Jack N. Herrold is a shareholder of the firm, having begun his legal career late in life. He graduated from law school in 1981 at the age of 34, yet his late choice has provided him with vast experience that he says helped diversify his practice of law. He practices in both the litigation and transactional arenas, focusing his litigation practice on civil and commercial litigation and his transactional practice on complex commercial transactions.

His practice in the area of litigation varies in representing individuals, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies in simple to complex cases, in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies, as either plaintiffs or defendants. He has also successfully arbitrated matters under AAA commercial rules, NASDAQ rules and rules of the Health Lawyers Association. Jack is well versed in commercial, business, labor and insurance matters, as well as, personal injury, medical malpractice as a litigator and business lawyer. He has been successful in using mediation and other alternative dispute resolution techniques to resolve disputes as economically advantageous to his clients as possible.

On the transactional side, Jack has been involved in numerous business mergers, acquisitions and negotiations, both domestic and foreign, including a nine-figure merger/acquisition between Israeli, Dutch and American companies. He has negotiated and prepared multimillion dollar credit facilities, real estate transactions, business sales and other transactions. He served as legal counsel for a large, publicly-held Israeli aviation defense contractor who engaged him to negotiate and acquire numerous American-based PMA facilities in several states.

In 1983, Jack and his brother, Don, founded Herrold Herrold & Co., a predecessor to SneedLangHerrold, which merged into our current firm in 2009. Prior to that time, Jack had a variety of interesting employment experiences which he says helped him better understand, emphasize and help his existing clientele, including employment as director of human resources for retail and manufacturing companies, a manufacturers’ representative and a distributor for surgical instruments and orthopedic implants which required scrubbing-in with doctors to teach and demonstrate their use. He even served as a patrol officer for the City of Tulsa Police Department for a couple a years early in his life. An avid student of cultural diversity, Jack travels with his wife, Cathy, as often as possible so he can, “soak in as many diverse foreign cultures as I can. You can’t truly appreciate our American way of life until you’ve seen how others live.”

Areas of Practice

• Complex Litigation
• Commercial transactions, mergers, reorganizations and acquisitions
• Labor & Employment law and litigation (e.g., FLSA, Title VII, etc., prosecution and defense)
• Commercial arbitration (e.g., medical malpractice, commercial, personal injury, tort, products liability and class actions)
• Civil litigation (trials and appeals)
• Wills, trusts and estate planning

Undergraduate and Law School Degrees

• University of Tulsa College of Law – J.D., 1981
• University of Oklahoma
• Mississippi State University
• University of Tulsa, B.A., 1969

Bar and Court Admissions

• Oklahoma – 1981
• U.S. District Court, Northern District Oklahoma
• U.S. District Court, Western District Oklahoma
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District Oklahoma
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Professional Organizations

• Oklahoma Bar Association
• Tulsa County Bar Association
• Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association
• American Trial Lawyers Association
• Oklahoma Academy of Arbitrators & Mediators

Reported Cases

Republic Financial Corp v. Mize, 1983 OK 107, 682 P.2d 207; Trinity Broadcasting Corp. v. Leeco Oil Co., 1984 OK 80, 692 P.2d 1364; Smith v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp., 1987 OK 3, 732 P.2d 466; Weyher/Livsey Constructors, Inc. v. Int’l Chemical Co., 864 F.2d 130 (11th Cir. 1989); Builders Steel Co. v. Hycore, Inc., 1994 OK CIV APP 44, 877 P.2d 1168; Chronic Pain Associates, Inc. v. Bubenik, 1994 OK 127, 885 P.2d 1358; Gilliland v. Chronic Pain Associates, Inc., 1995 OK 94, 904 P.2d 73; Bourke v. Western Business Products, Inc., 2005 OK CIV APP 48, 120 P.3d 876.

Other Activities/Community Involvement

• Board of Advisors, Thorton Family Y.M.C.A.
• Board of Advisors, Neighbors Along the Line, charitable organization
• Eugene Field Elementary/First United Methodist Church Mentoring Program