Three Attorneys Named Oklahoma Super Lawyers Rising Stars


Three Cordell & Cordell Oklahoma attorneys were recently selected to the 2015 Oklahoma Rising Stars list for family law attorneys by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business.
Brad Cunningham and Christian Barnard (Tulsa) and Heath Davis (Oklahoma City) were each named to the list. Cunningham was selected for the third consecutive year while Davis made it for the second year in a row and Barnard earned the distinction for the first time.
Davis is a litigation manager in the firm’s Oklahoma City office and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa.


Barnard is a Senior Attorney in the Tulsa office and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa.
Cunningham is a Team Leader in the Tulsa office and obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma.
Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area.
Lawyers are asked to nominate the best attorneys who are 40 years old or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less, and who they have personally observed in action.

Written by Joseph E. Cordell

Joseph E. Cordell is the Principal Partner at Cordell and Cordell, P.C., which he founded in 1990 with his wife, Yvonne. Over the past 25 years, the firm has grown to include more than 100 offices in 30 states, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom. Mr. Cordell is licensed to practice in the states of Illinois and Missouri and received his LL.M. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Joseph E. Cordell was named one of the Top 10 Best Family Law Attorneys for Client Satisfaction in Missouri.
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