Vickie J. Buchanan

Vickie Buchanan’s practice encompasses a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration. Her experience includes representing public and private companies in complex business cases, eminent domain cases, class action and multiple-party lawsuits, and disputes involving oil and gas, environmental, real estate, banking and securities, insurance, products liability and mass torts,. Her clients include major U.S. energy companies, corporations, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, and investment firms.

As an experienced trial lawyer, Vickie also works with clients to minimize risks and exposures and avoid litigation altogether. A substantial portion of her practice is devoted to counseling companies engaged in highly regulated industries on a broad range of operational, transactional, environmental and regulatory compliance matters. Much of her work in this area is concentrated on the manufacturing, transportation, and midstream and downstream energy industries where she frequently advises clients on issues such as operations and maintenance procedures, security regulations and programs, environmental programs and compliance, risk management, SCADA systems, records and information management, workplace health and safety, federal transportation regulations and emergency response.

Vickie’s experience representing oil and gas producers, pipeline companies, refineries and petroleum transporters also involves counseling and dispute resolution regarding environmental issues such as compliance planning and program implementation, site remediation, natural resource damage claims and cost recovery actions.

Vickie's achievements have earned her inclusion in Oklahoma Super Lawyers' list of "Oklahoma Rising Stars," which recognizes the state’s top up-and-coming attorneys.

• Regional representation of major corporations in class action, multiple party and tort litigation, including products liability cases involving automobiles, pharmaceutical products and other products.
• Obtained a favorable result for a major investment company and a broker in a FINRA arbitration in which the three-person panel entered an award finding that the claimant’s allegations of negligence were false and that the broker did not intentionally commit fraud or any other willful misconduct. In addition, the claim was expunged from the broker’s CRD record.
• Negotiated a favorable global settlement on behalf of an energy holding company in a series of lawsuits arising out of its purchase of assets of several oilfield service businesses. The client alleged business torts against the sellers and associated employees who engaged in unfair competition after the sale.
• Successfully contested a commissioner’s award in a multi-million dollar condemnation dispute with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and secured a confidential settlement for the client which ranks as one of the largest in Oklahoma state history.
• Obtained a substantial jury verdict plus attorneys’ fees and expert witness fees on behalf of the owners of an office building in an unusually complex condemnation case that involved the use of sound modeling and sound measurements to estimate the impact that a pending highway expansion project by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation would have on the tenants of the client’s building.
• Obtained a favorable settlement in a case of first impression nuisance lawsuit on behalf of a that challenged the right of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to operate a maintenance facility in derogation of city zoning laws.
• Obtained summary judgment for Oklahoma Goodwill Industries, Inc. in a class action lawsuit alleging violation of the Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act.