$ 150-385 per hour
Gale Allison
also known as S. Gale Graham Allison
About Gale
Biography
Gale Allison holds three certificates in mediation. She mediates family challenges involving inheritance, trust, probate, estate planning, elder and adult care, and divorce. She also settles business disputes specifically including business succession and buy/sell agreements. She is enthusiastic about helping lawyers and their clients resolve disputes by generating creative options to live in peace. Such options may include tax and trust solutions.
Ms. Allison is also available as an expert witness. She has four decades of experience as an estate and tax lawyer and estate and trust litigator. She offers her expertise to analyze trust and estate issues and testify in disputes as necessary.
A former Assistant General Counsel for Litigation for HEW (now the federal Health and Human Services Administration) and Estate and Gift Tax Attorney for the IRS, she then entered private practice of law. In addition, she served as an Adjunct Professor of estate tax law (Northeastern State University) and jurisprudence (University of Tennessee). She was a partner in a law firm in Tennessee before moving to Oklahoma where she founded her own boutique estate firm in 1996. In 2017, she merged her firm with Schaffer Herring, PLLC where she practiced as a Director and Attorney. At that time, she also merged her mediation practice with Dispute Resolution Consultants (DRC). Now a retired lawyer, she mediates exclusively through DRC.
Ms. Allison participates in community and charitable endeavors and volunteers for veterans causes. She currently serves on Mariner Wealth Advisors' Women Helping Women, the Advisory Board of Purview (life care management) and is a volunteer for Be My Eyes for people with visual difficulties. An author with articles and interviews in professional journals and other magazines, she speaks nationwide on her topics of expertise for professional continuing education, business groups, charities, and for education of the general public
Practice Areas
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Practice Area
Fees and Rates
Cost
Hourly Rates
Retainer
Sometimes
Payment Methods
- Cash
- Check
- Credit Card
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Licensed in Oklahoma for 30 years
State: Oklahoma
Acquired: 1995
No misconduct found
Licensed in Tennessee for 45 years
State: Tennessee
Acquired: 1981
No misconduct found
Licensed in Georgia for 49 years
State: Georgia
Acquired: 1976
No misconduct found
Location
Dispute Resolution Consultants (DRC)
1516 S Boston Ave #115, Tulsa, OK, 74119
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Gale Allison's Reviews
Showing 1 - 5 of 7 client reviews from Avvo
Posted by anonymous | December 23, 2016 | Consulted Attorney
This review is from a potential client who consulted with this attorney.
Honest and Helpful
We called Ms. Allison for a consult. She quickly responded. She was helpful, direct, and polite. Most importantly, we appreciated her obviously vast knowledge and her honesty. Discussion was clearly defined and easy to understand for those of us not in the legal field. She is a rarity.
Posted by Cynthia | April 11, 2015
A true expert and a consumate professional
Gale Allison dedicates her practice to trusts, wills, estate planning, prenuptial agreements, and litigation involving those same subjects. The more complex the issue, the more I would urge clients to retain her as their counsel. Cynthia K. Garrett, Tulsa, OK
Posted by Mary | April 7, 2015
Mother's probate
When my mother passed away, her hand written will did not satisfy some of her asset managers. We had to go through probate court. Mrs Allison & her staff handled everything for me. They filed the papers, notified me of court dates and progress and attended all court dates with me. Everything was hand...
Posted by Liza | January 5, 2015
Excellent Estate Planning Lawyer
My husband and I hired Gale about 5 years ago and we consider it one of the best decisions we have made. She is highly professional and a true expert in her field. We attended a financial planning seminar/event a few months later and everything they recommended had been already been covered in our e...
Posted by anonymous | December 25, 2014
Family estate plans superbly done by Gale Allison
When my elderly parents moved to Tulsa in 1996, I asked a tax law professor for a recommendation of an attorney to handle their estate plans, and Gale Allison was recommended highly. She prepared my parents' estate plans, and I must say after their respective deaths thirteen years apart, all arran...
Gale Allison's Lawyer Endorsements
"Gale Allison is an excellent attorney, always going the extra mile for her clients. She's a master at being efficient, persuasive, and compassionate. If you're looking for someone to be in your corner fighting for you, look no further."
"I endorse this lawyer. Gale Allison dedicates her practice to trusts, wills, estate planning, prenuptial agreements, and litigation involving those same subjects. The more complex the issue, the more I would urge clients to retain her as their counsel."
"Ms. Allison advised me in various Trust matters involving a family Trust for which I was a Trustee. Her advice was invaluable in avoiding litigation and resolving a difficult issue. In addition she advised me with regard to estate planning for my elderly mother."
Cynthia Garrett
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Experience
Honors
2021
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2018
Accredited Estate Planner / AEP®, National Association of Estate Planners & Councils
Work Experience
2017 - Present
Attorney/Mediator, Dispute Resolution Consultants (DRC)
2017 - 2021
Attorney/Director, Schaffer Herring, PLLC
1995 - 2017
Founder, The Allison Firm
1982 - 1994
Attorney, Witt Gaither & Whitaker
1978 - 1981
Estate & Gift Tax Attorney, IRS
1977 - 1978
Assistant General Counsel for Litigation, US Department of Health, Education & Welfare
Associations
Oklahoma Bar Association
Tennessee Bar Association
State Bar of Georgia
American Bar Association
Estate Planning Forum of Tulsa
Oklahoma Bar Association
Tulsa County Alternate Delegate
St. John Medical Center Foundation
Community Liaison Board Member
Purview Advisory Board
Board Member
St. John Health System Institutional Review Board
Board Member
Tulsa County Bar Association
Mariner Wealth Advisors' Women Helping Women
Advisory Board
Be My Eyes
Volunteer
2015 - 2021
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Commission of the Oklahoma Bar AssociationMember
Education
2017
The Mediation Insitute
Family and Divorce Mediation
2016
Pepperdine University, School of Law, Straus Institute for Mediation
Elder Care Mediation
2015
Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institue for Dispute Resolution
Mediating the Litigated Case (Lawsuit mediation)
1980
Emory University School of Law
LL.M - Master of Laws
1975
University of Tennessee
JD - Juris Doctor
1973
University of Georgia
Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2018
Presentation
“Mediating the Petty Pieces of Posterity: When They All Want Mama’s Turkey Platter”
2018
Annual Conference
“That Ain’t No Fairy Tale: The Grimm Facts Behind Business Succession Disputes"
2017
Preserving Your Family’s Legacy
“Writing Your Ethical Will”
2016
Business Resources Series seminar
“Business Succession Planning”
2015
South Central Region Annual Conference
“The New and Scary Face of HIPAA”
2014
Estate Planning for Mom and Pop seminar
“Planning for IRAs and Retirement Benefit Trusts: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
2011
Luncheon- Keynote
Cancer, Cancer Research, and Your Estate Plan: Leaving a Legacy
2011
Community Education
Which is Better – A Will or a Living Trust?
2011
Back to Basics- Will seminar
Potential Conflicts – Ethical Issues
2005
monthly seminars since...
Estate Planning 101
Publications
2019
Oklahoma Bar Journal -- OBJ 90 pg. 32 (April 2019)
“You Mean the Government Can Control My Guns?” – The Estate Planner’s Guide to Firearm Distribution in Oklahoma (Gale Allison, Rebecca Wood Hunter, and Vale Gonzalez)
2018
Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 89, No 7 (March 2018)
Using Trust and Tax Solutions in Divorce Mediation (Gale Allison and Vale Gonzalez)
2018
eBook, abridged version originally published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 89, No 7 (March 2018)
Controlling the Pain: Using Trust and Tax Solutions in Divorce Mediation (Gale Allison and Vale Gonzalez)z
2017
Tulsa Lawyer
New Law on Vehicle Transfers at Death
2016
2014
2012
Oklahoma Bar Journal
How the Rickety Days of the Oklahoma Probate Code Look "Bleeker" but Better
2010
American Bar Association publication
Summary Report of the Transfer Tax Provision of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
2010
National Business Institute Seminar
Federal Death and Gift Taxation When the Law Is an Unknown - Administering the Estate on the Cusp of Exemption
2008
Oklahoma Bar Association Seminar & Publication
The ABCs of Estate Planning
2006
National Business Institute, co-author Kelly Anne Masters
First Things First: What Do I Need to Start a Non-Profit?
1997
US Internal Revenue Service publication, last update Dec. 2010
Family Limited Partnerships
1997
National Business Institute
Post Mortem Planning Techniques, Disclaimer, Trust Reformation & Division
Languages
English
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