Phone: (405) 235.7000
Fax: (405) 996.3403
E-Mail: cgeister@hartzoglaw.com

• Litigation, with emphasis in areas of business and commercial disputes, securities and antitrust cases, products liability, insurance and employment law

• Over 25 years representing defendants in business, insurance and employment-related lawsuits, including securities and antitrust cases
• Has lectured in the areas of insurance law, civil procedure and trial practice
• Authored overview articles of Oklahoma law in the state-by-state publication of the American Bar Association Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Subcommittee
• Early Neutral Evaluator for the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
• Member of the Luther Bohanon American Inn of Court (1992-1995)
• Member of the Lawyer Panel No. LXXVIII of the Oklahoma Court of Appeals, assisting the Oklahoma Supreme Court in resolving its caseload
• Recognized in Best Lawyers in America in the areas of:
  Bet-the-Company Litigation
  Commercial Litigation
  Insurance Law
• Listed in Oklahoma Super Lawyers (Business Litigation)
• Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• Member, Arbitrator Panel of the Arbitration Forum

• State Bar of Oklahoma
• American Bar Association
• President, Oklahoma County Bar Association (2007-2008)
• Past director of the Oklahoma County Bar Association
• Member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association Bench and Bar Committee
• Member of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Civil Procedure Committee (1995-2000)
• Vice-President, Oklahoma County Bar Association (2005-2006)
• Chair, OCBA Continuing Legal Education Committee (2003-2005)
• Admitted to practice in the State of Oklahoma
• Admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma
• Admitted to practice in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals

• University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1977)
• University of Oklahoma, College of Law (J.D., 1980 – with honors)
• Order of the Coif
• Member of the Oklahoma Law Review, serving as Editor-in-Chief

• Member, Board of Trustees, Heritage Hall School, Oklahoma City (1992-2000)

• Evans v. McDonald's Corp., 936 F.2d 1087 (10th Cir. 1991)
• Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co., 38 F.3d 510 (10th Cir. 1994)
• Crabtree v. Muchmore, 904 F.2d 1475 (10th Cir. 1990)
• Woulfe v. Eli Lilly & Co., 965 F.2nd 1478 (E. D. Okla. 1997)
• Craft v. Chopra, 907 P.2d 1109 (Okla. Ct. App. 1995)
• Wilkinson v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 933 P.2d 878 (Okla. 1997)