Mark A. Waller is a Member and Director of Waller Jorgenson Warzynski, PLLC, where he practices primarily in the areas of complex business litigation, class-action and mass torts litigation, personal and business torts, and labor and employment law.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Tulsa. He graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1991, with highest honors. Following seven years of private practice, Mark was in-house Senior Labor and Employment Attorney for The Williams Companies, Inc., from 1998 through 2000, and Senior Attorney with Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Co. from 2000 through 2002. Since that time, Mark has been in private practice, with Sneed Lang PC and now with his current firm.
During his career, Mark has been involved in a variety of class actions and collective actions representing plaintiffs against employers, financial institutions, producers of genetically-modified crops, and manufacturers. He was instrumental in recovering $43 million for plaintiffs in a case against officers and directors of an aircraft manufacturer that pre-sold jet aircraft but failed to deliver. He has also been plaintiffs’ counsel for consumer plaintiffs who recovered more than $26 million from banks based on wrongful overdraft-fee practices. In addition to representing employees in federal and state civil rights litigation, Family & Medical Leave Act claims, and Americans with Disabilities Act claims, Mark has successfully represented commissioned salespersons in a variety of industries in cases seeking recovery of improperly withheld wages and commissions.
Mark has represented numerous Southwest Airlines employees with various employment issues, and he is experienced with arbitrating employee grievances, the flight attendants’ collective bargaining agreement, and other applicable company rules.
Mark represents employers in his private practice as well, counseling on a wide range of employment issues, including preventive measures and compliance, proper investigations and documentation, interfacing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, State and Federal Departments of Labor, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Mark is experienced in mediating, arbitrating and litigating business and employment law disputes, from both the perspectives of a Fortune-500 company’s in-house counsel and an outside, private firm.
Mark is a member of the Oklahoma and Tulsa County Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice before all Oklahoma state and federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Mark can be reached at:
mwaller@wjwattorneys.com
(918) 629-3350
J. David Jorgenson is a Member and Director of Waller Jorgenson Warzynski, PLLC. His practice is concentrated in complex business litigation, with emphases in energy (especially the exploration and production and gas transmission sectors of the oil and gas industry), securities and business fraud, other financial litigation, and construction-related disputes. David advises clients in transactions and other nonlitigated matters in the oil and gas, telecommunications, commercial construction and other commercial sectors.
David has practiced in Tulsa since his graduation from the University of Texas School of Law, with honors, in 1978. At U.T., he served on the Legal Research Board and as one of twenty competitively-selected third-year students who taught legal research, brief writing and oral advocacy to first year U.T. law students. He is rated “av” by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review service. David was a partner at Conner & Winters until 1995 and subsequently was a partner or was “of counsel” at four other Tulsa firms, most recently at Sneed Lang, PLLC.
In the 1980s and 1990s, David’s most significant litigated cases revolved around “take or pay” and related natural gas contract disputes, royalty claims triggered by the renegotiation of large volume gas contracts, and gas balancing and other related litigation triggered by deregulation. The producer plaintiffs that David represented against pipeline companies as lead counsel, collectively, recovered over $175 million. Since then, his litigated cases have included securities and antitrust actions, oil and gas disputes (including joint accounting and various contract disputes among working interest and royalty owners), and disputes arising from complex venture capital and financing transactions.
David’s experience in the telecom industry includes extensive representation of the former Williams Communications Group, a telecommunications provider that completed a 36,000-mile fiber optic network before its acquisition by another telecom company. The WCG work entailed negotiation and drafting of joint venture (“joint build”) agreements with other telecoms, right-of-way and other disputes with cities, counties and other governmental entities on the west coast, and an array of construction disputes arising out of WCG’s nationwide fiber and optronic equipment installation activities.
David is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and is admitted to practice in all Oklahoma state and federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and in the United States Supreme Court.
djorgenson@wjwattorneys.com
(918) 933-4288