September 15, 2025 | GableGotwals is pleased to announce that former summer associates Trisha Bunce, Logan Norton, CJ Pollins, and Madison Taylor have joined the Firm as litigation Associates.

Trisha Bunce is an Associate in the Firm’s Oklahoma City office, where her practice focuses on commercial litigation, bankruptcy law, and Native American law. At the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Trisha received the Joel Jankowsky Outstanding Graduate Award and was involved with numerous student organizations, including Oklahoma Law Review, the Native American Law Student Association, the Federal Bar Association, and Phi Alpha Delta. She was a finalist in the New York State Bar Association National Moot Court Competition, finishing second in the region and qualifying for the national-level tournament.

Logan Norton is an Associate in the Firm’s Tulsa office, where his practice focuses on commercial litigation, employment law, energy law, and healthcare. Logan graduated with highest honors from The University of Tulsa College of Law, where he served as an elected delegate for the Student Bar Association and participated in numerous student organizations such as the Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Society, the Health Law Society, and the Business Law Society. He also earned CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Criminal Law & Administration and Artificial Intelligence & Law. While in law school, Logan completed the Public Defender Clinic with the Tulsa County Public Defender’s Office, where he acquired an academic LLI and represented incarcerated individuals before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board through Project Commutation.

CJ Pollins is an Associate in the Firm’s Oklahoma City office, where his practice focuses on a wide range of matters involving commercial law, energy, and sports, media, and entertainment. While in law school, he was on the Oklahoma City University Law Review Editorial Board as a Resource Editor, a member of the ABA Moot Court Team, and externed for the Honorable Sarah Hall and the Honorable Janice Loyd at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Prior to joining the Firm, he served as a consultant for United Youth Football League and worked as a high school teacher and football coach in Mansfield, Texas, co-developing a financial literacy curriculum and coaching student-athletes, including several who earned collegiate scholarships and state honors.

Madison Taylor is an Associate in the Firm’s Tulsa office, where her practice focuses on matters involving medical malpractice, oil and gas law, commercial law, and Native American law. At the University of Oklahoma College of Law, she received the Student Bar Association Prize for outstanding contributions to the student body, the Professional Responsibility Award, and was named Outstanding 3L. Madison was also recognized as a 1L Moot Court Distinguished Speaker and participated in multiple competition teams. She was active in several student organizations, serving as the Student Body President of the Student Bar Association, as a Negotiations Assistant for the Board of Advocates, and as an Articles Editor for the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal. 

About GableGotwals
GableGotwals® is a full-service law firm with 100 attorneys and more than 70 other business professionals in Oklahoma and Texas. We represent a diversified client base across the nation, and our connections and reach are global. Fortune 500 corporations, privately owned companies, entrepreneurs, foundations, and individuals entrust us every day with the stewardship and strategic management of their legal challenges.

Each summer, GableGotwals hosts 1L and 2L students who gain valuable experience alongside our attorneys through hands-on legal work, exposure to a broad range of practice areas, and meaningful opportunities to connect with our people and culture. The program provides opportunities for both the Firm and the candidate to get to know each other. The program emphasizes integrating law students into the practice of law. For more information, click here.

Trent Shores, a member of GableGotwals’ Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice, served as the Legal Technician on the production of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” vetting the courtroom and interrogation scenes in the film for accuracy. In his role, Trent had the opportunity to write a scene and edit other portions of the script, working closely with the director, Martin Scorsese, and the actors.

A citizen of Choctaw Nation and a former United States Attorney, Trent advises clients regarding complex litigation, Native American law and policy, cybersecurity, and high-stakes government and corporate investigations. He represents clients in state, federal, and tribal courts at all stages in the litigation process, including at trial and on appeal.

About the Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice
For more than 35 years, GableGotwals attorneys have been advising clients in the sports, media, and entertainment sectors. The team’s broad experience provides unique market insights to advise digital, media, and production companies, entertainment venues, professional and collegiate athletes, musicians, actors, filmmakers, celebrities, licensors/rights holders, investors, and financiers. Click here to read more about GableGotwals’ Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice.

December 18, 2023 | GableGotwals is pleased to announce it has formed a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) agreement with The University of Tulsa (TU) student athlete, Jenni Roller. Jenni is a sophomore at TU, where she is a member of the women’s golf team.

As part of the agreement, Jenni will represent GableGotwals in mutually agreed-upon appearances and post her activities on social media, highlighting the Firm.

Jenni, a letterwinner, played in 11 out of 13 tournaments as a freshman. She had three top-25 finishes, a 74.4 stroke average in 32 rounds, and she finished 14^th place at the AAC Championship and the Columbia Classic. For more information on Jenni, click here.

About the Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice
For more than 35 years, GableGotwals attorneys have been advising clients in the sports, media, and entertainment sectors. The team’s broad experience provides unique market insights to advise digital, media, and production companies, entertainment venues, professional and collegiate athletes, musicians, actors, filmmakers, celebrities, licensors/rights holders, investors and financiers. Click here to read more about GableGotwals’ Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice.

Assisted with the company formation, drafting offering documents to raise capital, reviewed the U.S. and worldwide distribution agreements, and negotiated contracts with actors and crew for two feature-length films “Prodigy” and “Under The Influencer.”

Jeff Haughey, a member of GableGotwals’ Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice, assisted with the company formation, drafting offering documents to raise capital, reviewed the U.S. and worldwide distribution agreements, and negotiated contracts with actors and crew for two feature-length films “Prodigy” and “Under The Influencer.”

Jeff is an experienced transactional attorney with more than 30 years of experience.

“Under the Influencer” will be released on December 12 and is available to stream on Amazon Prime and AppleTV.

About the Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice
For more than 35 years, GableGotwals attorneys have been advising clients in the sports, media, and entertainment sectors. The team’s broad experience provides unique market insights to advise digital, media, and production companies, entertainment venues, professional and collegiate athletes, musicians, actors, filmmakers, celebrities, licensors/rights holders, investors and financiers. Click here to read more about GableGotwals’ Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice.

December 7, 2023 | For more than 35 years, GableGotwals attorneys have been advising clients in the sports, media, and entertainment sectors. The team’s unique market insights inform our advice to digital, media, and production companies, entertainment venues, professional and collegiate athletes, musicians, actors, filmmakers, celebrities, licensors/rights holders, investors, financiers, and business owners.

Recent experience includes:

• Representing clients in entertainment-related agreements such as SAG employment contracts for movies and television commercials and contracts for appearances in nationally-broadcast talent competitions
• Representing a private investment fund in controlling investment in an Oklahoma-based film and television production company
• Representation of a lender in a loan to a multi-state radio broadcasting company
• Representing a country music entertainment website in connection with media production, promotion agreements with musicians and concert promoters, social media influencer agreements, and other general matters
• Representing bands, artists, managers, and record labels in agreements
• Representing athletes in various investments and ventures
• Advising a professional athlete regarding a sports agent agreement
• Negotiating a Name, Image, and Likeness agreement for a student athlete
• Negotiating an endorsement and appearance agreement with a professional athlete
• Representing clients in trademark and copyright disputes
• Representing clients in sports trademark protection and enforcement

“With the recent influx of film production in Oklahoma, the rising prominence of Name, Image, and Likeness’ (NIL) arrangements with collegiate and high school athletes, and our existing experience in advising clients regarding film, music and media rights, business investments, endorsements, and appearances, we decided this is a perfect time to formalize our Sports, Media and Entertainment Practice and share with the community all the interesting and exciting projects we have completed,” said Jeffrey Hassell, Shareholder at GableGotwals and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice.

As a full-service firm, GableGotwals is well poised to advise clients who desire to protect and enforce rights and claims to their creations, capitalize on their notoriety, or create value with their name, image, and likeness, and for those who help make that possible by marketing, providing capital, or hosting social media or event platforms at venues. Click here to read more about GableGotwals’ Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice.

Successfully represented a local developer in a civil lawsuit protesting the legal sufficiency of the Referendum Petition related to Jenks Ordinance No. 1617.