Laura J. Long

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(405) 552-2372
laura.long@mcafeetaft.com
Oklahoma City

Overview

Laura Long is a trial lawyer who concentrates her practice in energy litigation and complex business and commercial litigation. She has represented clients ranging from individuals to national corporations in state and federal trial courts, bankruptcy courts, appellate courts, and arbitrations and mediations. Her litigation practice has involved local and multi-state class actions, mass actions, and qui tam litigation. Laura’s experience includes counseling energy clients on a variety of contractual and operational matters, and she has represented clients in oil and gas related contract disputes, marketing and measurement litigation, royalty owner issues, lease disputes, easement and encroachment issues, surface owner disputes, well production disputes, and toxic torts. Her litigation experience also includes representation of clients in a variety of other industries in matters involving intellectual property, contract disputes, personal injury, and creditor’s rights, including liens, foreclosures and bankruptcy.

Laura’s achievements have earned her inclusion in the prestigious Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, where she holds the distinction of being ranked nationally in the field of oil and gas litigation, as well as ranked in Oklahoma in the category of energy and natural resources law. Additionally, she has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America (commercial litigation; energy law; environmental litigation; oil and gas law). In the Oklahoma City market, Best Lawyers selected her as “Energy Lawyer of the Year” for 2025 and “Environmental Litigation Lawyer of the Year” for 2025, honors given to a single lawyer in each legal specialty in each market.

Honors and Awards

  • Listed in the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2025–Present)
  • Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2017–Present)
  • Named “Best Lawyers Energy Lawyer of the Year” in Oklahoma City for 2025
  • Named “Best Lawyers Environmental Litigation Lawyer of the Year” in Oklahoma City for 2025

Professional Organizations and Memberships

  • Oklahoma Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Oklahoma City Mineral Lawyers Society
  • Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation

Civic Involvement and Leadership

  • P.E.O. International
  • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night (Member, Executive Committee)

    Writing Credits

  • SLAPPing Around the First Amendment: An Analysis of Oklahoma’s Anti-SLAPP Statute and Its Implications on the Right to Petition

    2007 | 60 Oklahoma Law Review 421

Speaking Engagements

  • Balancing Regulatory Power Between the State and Local Authorities

    2019 Eugene Kuntz Conference on Natural Resources Law and Policy

    November 1, 2019
    | Oklahoma City, OK
  • Current Issues Concerning Oil and Gas Industry Use of County Road Easements and Related Issues

    2013 Eugene Kuntz Conference on Natural Resources Law and Policy

    November 8, 2013
    | Oklahoma City, OK
  • Oklahoma, 2008
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
  • J.D., with highest honors, University of Oklahoma, 2008
    • Note Editor, Oklahoma Law Review; Order of the Coif
  • M.A. (Communication), University of Arkansas, 2005
  • B.S. (Political Science and Speech Communication), summa cum laude, Texas Christian University, 2003