Mike Yeksavich is a sole practitioner in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, a 2004 recipient of a Congressional Angels in Adoption Award and one of the indigent defense team members for the Muscogee (Creek) Indian Nation. Mike graduated from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in economics and from the University of Tulsa Law School with a J.D. He also graduated from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Advanced Course at the University of Virginia Law School while on active duty with the U.S. Army. Admitted to practice before the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals,the U.S. Supreme Court, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation court, the Cherokee Nation court, the Court of Military Appeals and the Court of Military Review.
EDUCATION
B.S., Oklahoma State University-Economics
J.D., University of Tulsa-Law
University of Virginia Law School (U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Advance Class, ABA approved for LLM equivalency)
Doing Business in Indian Country Seminars
Continuing Legal Education Seminars
Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys
COURTS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE IN
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Tenth United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Military Review
United States Court of Military Appeals
Muscogee (Creek) Nation Court
Cherokee Nation Court
Osage Nation Court
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
Federal Labor-Management Relations: AN OVERVIEW, Oklahoma Bar Journal
You and Malpractice, Chilton’s Review of Optometry
Malpractice Liability, The Digest of Chiropractic Economics
Oklahoma Farm Real Estate Values, Journal of Farm Economics
Modeler’s Negligence Liability, RC Modeler
Optometric First Aid: Expecting the Unexpected, Chilton’s Review of Optometry
Name of the Game, Model Airplane News
TEACHING
Business Law for New Mexico State University
Real Estate Transactions for City Colleges of Chicago
Real Estate Transactions for United States Armed Forces Institute
Speaker on Indian Law, Guardianship and Adoption Law at Oklahoma Bar Association Seminars
Speaker on Indian Child Welfare Act at Oklahoma Supreme Court Sovereignty Symposiums
In service sessions for St. Francis Hospital and University of Oklahoma Medical School in Tulsa
MILITARY
Major, United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Decorations: Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Korean Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal
FOREIGN LIVING AND TRAVEL
Japan three years, Philippines three years, Germany two years and Korea one year, and travel to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Grand Turk, Kwajalein, Italy, Luxemburg, Mexico, Nassau, Netherlands and Switzerland
Please Call : 918-592-6050