McAfee & Taft has further expanded its litigation practice with the arrival of former federal law clerks Philip J. Novak III and Trent Siever.
PJ Novak joins the firm’s Oklahoma City office after clerking for the Honorable Ronald C. Griffin of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. His litigation practice is focused on the resolution of a broad range of business and commercial disputes, class actions, and matters involving complex issues of federal and state law.
Novak graduated summa cum laude from the Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2025, where he served on the Board of Editors for the Oklahoma City University Law Review and as president of the Federal Bar Association, competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, and served as a Civil Procedure Academic Fellow. He was also the recipient of the OCU Law Review’s Managing Editor Award, was named to the Order of the Barristers and Phi Delta Phi legal honor society, and earned five CALI Awards for academic excellence.
Trent Siever joins the firm’s Tulsa office after serving as a term law clerk to the Honorable Gregory K. Frizzell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. His litigation practice encompasses the areas of complex business and commercial disputes, class actions, the defense of manufacturers and distributors in product liability lawsuits, and other tort litigation.
Siever native graduated with highest honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2025, where he was awarded the faculty’s Martin A. Fellows Smith Award for most outstanding graduating student based on scholarship and leadership. While in law school, he served as article selection editor for the Tulsa Law Review and as a student member on the Board of Advocates, was named to the Order of Curule Chair and the Order of the Barristers, and earned 8 CALI awards for academic achievement.
Now with nearly 200 lawyers, McAfee & Taft is Oklahoma’s largest law firm and one of the nation’s top 250 law firms, and firm’s Litigation Group has been perennially top rated in Oklahoma by the publishers of the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.