Outstanding Senior Lawyer
S. Douglas “Doug” Dodd
For those TCBA members who are, shall we say, “more experienced in the Tulsa community,” we would know the TCBA’s Outstanding Senior Lawyer for 2021 by merely hearing his mellifluous voice. S. Douglas “Doug” Dodd spent fourteen years in radio and television journalism, including as News Director, Reporter, Anchor, Documentary and Public Affairs Producer for KOTV in Tulsa, as a reporter and Associate Producer for Documentaries for KTUL-TV in Tulsa and similar work in Rapid City, South Dakota. Over many years, Doug lent his rich voice countless times to the TCBA, other organizations, and candidates for various offices for numerous projects on a volunteer basis.
Outstanding Senior Lawyer Award... Recognizing outstanding reputations as lawyers and for their dedicated service to their profession and to the community.
It is no surprise that with this background that Doug’s practice entails representation of national and local media companies in media and intellectual proper matters with an emphasis on First Amendment and defamation issues. He lectures to both attorneys and journalists on open meetings and open records issues and to legal administrators on social networking trends and concerns. Doug is actively involved in the Media Law Resource Center’s Defense Counsel Section and served as cochair of the MLRC’s national Pre-Publication/PreBroadcast Review Committee. He is a contributing author of the Media Law Resource Center’s Annual Survey of Oklahoma Media Privacy and Related Law. Doug was lead counsel for Harper’s Magazine in the case of Showler v. Harper’s Magazine Foundation and Peter Turnley, winning in federal district court, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and ultimately the United States Supreme Court. Doug served as Chairman of the Oklahoma Bar Association BarMedia Relations and Communications Committees and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law and Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee.
