Carns Curtiss Law, PLLC

02/18/2025

Oklahoma County PSA: Please stay off the roads if at all possible

The snow’s not here yet, but the roads are as slick with ice as you’d expect considering my windshield looked like this after driving only two miles from the house to my office. Plus, my car is garaged & it was warm in my car! If you’re in OK County & can stay home today - please do. I’m back home now, sent my staff home too - where we will be working remotely.

No matter how skilled a driver you are - not everyone is - plus, if you’re at home you definitely will not be in (let alone cause) a collision.

06/17/2024

Fellow atty friends, pls JOIN ME my & my firm Carns Curtiss Law, PLLC and sign up (below) for the Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation 2024 Summer Probono Challenge! 💙💙💙

If you’ve already got things you’re doing, MIGHT AS WELL COMPLETE WITH IT (😂), if not, HMU & I can send you in the right direction.

Thank you for committing to the Third Annual Summer Pro Bono Challenge! For the months of June, July, and August, we hope you will challenge and inspire any lawyers, law students, and legal staff in your firm to commit to as much pro bono as they are able. At the end of the summer we will ask you to...

06/06/2024

This is me leveraging this honorable selection. 😅 To be fair, this is a peer-nominated honor that I genuinely appreciate. Only up to 5% of attys in the state get this award, & I only got selected for the first time about five years ago. So, TY to my colleagues (& to my awesome clients - most of whom come to me from colleagues who trust me with their friends & family). Lucky in law over here.

10/05/2023

My firm is very proud to be a sponsor of this event presented by Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation! ETA: Registration is open now for this free, virtual event. This year's panels cover topics ranging from courtroom technology innovations and language access to trauma-informed practice and user-friendly court forms. Read more about the agenda and register today! Here is the link to register: https://www.okaccesstojustice.org/summit?fbclid=IwAR3Ngc93iNuvl9jzLS71nS3jTMFeoSzw6Ifu4YX0uDdnaG3moGeKw4SE28A

Thanks to everyone who attended the 3rd Annual Oklahoma Access to Justice Summit. register today for the 2023 summit: Friday, Oct. 20. Explore the agenda and sessions below.

08/25/2023

CONGRATULATIONS!

Here’s the deal: there are there plenty of awards (and, you know, some “awards”) that would like to GET YO’ MONEY so you can hang a plaque on your walls to impress your clients.

Nothing inherently wrong with any of that – but it’s not how I try to impress my clients; in large part b/c I think there are more worthwhile ways to use money – and that thought lead me to this idea. 💙

Every month (starting real quick here at the end of Aug) I’m going to post a pic or screenshot of one of the mailed or emailed awards (or “awards”) I’ve received and instead of spending $, $$, or $$$ (lol) on a plaque, I’m going to donate the cost of the plaque to TWO randomly chosen non-profits (one I’ll choose from where YOU have provided their website address in the comments here, and the second from where YOU have tagged their Instagram account in the comments on that post).

I look forward to clicking through learn about organizations you’ve added(!), feel free to like or comment (or get your friends to😅) on a particular recommendation to help increase its visibility for me (and others) – and I hope you will click through to see what organizations others have added. I’ll pick the winning non-profit on the last day of the month – and announce it the following week!

ABSOLUTELY FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS, the non-profit does not need to be local for me to choose it.

P.S. This “thumbs up” award is from a client who brought it to me as a gift at the conclusion of her case – of course I still PROUDLY display it in my office many years later (note: it cost me zero dollars).

07/26/2023

If your kiddo clients, from even years ago, aren’t getting your support for their teams & individual sports - are you even lawyering right? lol Well, MAYBE YOU still ARE, but - if you’re not supporting them in this way - then you’re def not getting the very best personal correspondence that USPS can deliver, nor the pride in getting to invest in the next generation of leaders. 💙 P.S. If you want sponsorship info so you can also support Miss. Emily’s horse riding competitions (& get the absolutely sweetest TY notes EVER), HMU!
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06/14/2023

Proud to volunteer (and promote and invite AS MANY AS MY COLLEAGUES AS POSSIBLE) to help prepare expungement documentation - through Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City, Inc. under the supervision of Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation and Lorenzo Azar Banks.

💙 Please SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, June 24, 2023!

A quick reminder: cases will be pulled FOR YOU, and you will work under someone who KNOWS HOW TO DO IT and who WILL TRAIN YOU. Plus, they are THRILLED YOU ARE THERE TO LEARN, and they must all be saints – seriously – because THEY ARE SUPER NICE and ENDLESSLY PATIENT when you have (b/c you will have) a ton of questions.

If you are interested in volunteering/learning along with me, a) YAY!, and b) please complete the form/follow the link below, so that the folks in charge can get an accurate headcount for food, t-shirts, and materials. 💙 SEE YOU THERE!

https://forms.gle/sinFvNA685UE3JXy5

03/15/2023

EMSA ambulance response times are such an easy thing to ignore - until you or your loved ones are waiting on one.

Lagging EMSA response times in Edmond could lead the city to find another emergency response service provider. However, times are improving.

10/21/2022

Left the office late tonight. Not THIS (10:30pm) late, but it was just a few hours ago. Not all the days are this long, but when they are it’s because the work needs to be done, and that’s what my clients hired me to do. I was just talking to someone a couple of days ago about the fact that I’m 99% sure that 99% of the millions of other lawyer jobs would have been a bad fit for me. Plus, turns out, a job that would have fallen in the 100%-NOT-DOING-THAT list (while I was in law school), is actually the perfect job for me. SERIOUSLY. Who knew? 🤷‍♀️😂💯
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09/07/2022

JUST THIS MORNING, I confirmed that I have successfully facilitated a full $40K return of funds to the revolving bail fund (from a total of ten cases, PEOPLE, who were helped by payment of it on their behalf). 💙 NOW THOSE FUNDS ARE READY TO HELP THE NEXT PERSON.

If this story about the work of The Bail Project is inspiring to you in any way, please consider a one-time or even a monthly donation to put your money to work to help your fellow Americans who simply want to access the constitutional rights that so many of us take for granted: https://bailproject.org/?form=FUNZDSHHFZB&fundraiser=NYJYUJFC