Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Alicia Edwards received her Juris Doctor with highest honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tulsa with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and a minor in chemistry. She holds a master's degree in environmental management from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a Ph.D. in environmental science from the University of Oklahoma. She is also a registered patent attorney.

Before entering law school, Dr. Edwards was an environmental scientist for an international engineering consulting firm. Her duties included site investigation, assisting clients with permitting and other regulatory compliance issues, coordinating public involvement programs, and preparing emergency response plans for water utilities. She joined Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson in 2007, where her practice is currently focused on environmental law and intellectual property.

Dr. Edwards is a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association, the Oklahoma Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She currently serves as Committee Vice Chair for the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Pesticides, Chemical Regulation, and Right-to-Know Committee and as a board member for Tulsa Zoo Friends, Inc.

Areas of Practice

• Patents
• Intellectual Property
• Environmental Law
• General Civil Litigation

West Practice Categories

Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Patents, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• Oklahoma, 2007
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Tulsa County Bar Association
• Oklahoma Bar Association
• Tulsa Zoo Friends, Inc. (Board Member)
• American Bar Association, Environment Section (Committee Vice Chair)
• American Bar Association (Energy, and Right-to-Know Committee)

Honors and Awards

• Valedictorian, Class of Spring, 2007
• Oklahoma Bar Association Outstanding Student Award
• Order of the Curule Chair
• Fenelon Boesche Award
• Judge Tom Brett Criminal Law Award
• Gable & Gotwals Outstanding Student Award in the First, Second, and Third Years
• George and Jean Price Award
• F.M. Rowell, Sr., Award
• Judge W. Lee Johnson Award
• CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Civil Procedure I and II, Conflicts of Law, Contracts, Constitutional Law I, Criminal Law and Administration, Criminal Procedure: Police Practices
• CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Employment Law, Federal Income Tax, Introduction to Legal Research, Legal Drafting, Property, Secured Transactions, Selling and Leasing Goods, Trademark Law and Unfair Trade Practices
• CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Legal Reasoning, Authorities, and Writing II

Past Employment Positions

• CH2M HILL, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Environmental Scientist

Education

• University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May, 2007
  Juris Doctorate
  Honors: With Highest Honors
  
  Law Review: Tulsa Law Review, Articles Research Editor
• University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1999
  Ph.D.
  Major: Environmental Science
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1995
  M.S.
  Major: Environmental Management
• University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1993
  Bachelor of Science
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Honors Program
  Honors: National Merit Scholar
  Major: Biological Sciences
  Minor: Chemistry

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Delta Phi
• Phi Beta Kappa

Accepts Credit Cards

Published Works

• "Annual Report on Pesticides, Chemical Regulation, and Right-to-Know", (Co-Editor) , American Bar Association's Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, 2008
• "Project Planning: The 'All Appropriate Inquiries' Investigation", Oklahoma Bar Association, Environmental Law Handbook, 2009

Address

320 South Boston Avenue
Suite 500
Tulsa, OK 74103-3725

Phones

(918) 591-5235

Faxes

(918) 925-5235

Emails

aedwards@dsda.com

Websites

http://www.dsda.com