Resume of: CLIFFORD N. RIBNER
320 So. Boston
Tulsa, OK 74103
Telephone: (918) 582-9200
e-mail: cribner@mac.com
BAR MEMBERSHIPS:
New York, Oklahoma State and Federal Courts, 10th and 4th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, U.S.Tax Court, Supreme Court of the United States.
LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
2004 to Present: Practice limited to Taxation.
1987 to 2004: Sole Practitioner, Office since 1995 at 320 South Boston. All aspects of complex litigation (from initial pleadings through final judgment and collection, including discovery, trials and appeals). Cases have involved State and Federal Tax Controversies, Antitrust, Corporate Law, Securities, Fraud and other complex Business Torts, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Legal Malpractice, Battery and Outrage, Conversion, Negligence, Contracts, Priority of Liens, Divorce, Federal Indian Law, Constitutional Law, Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Oklahoma and Federal Criminal Law, Commercial Law, E.R.I.S.A.
January, 1985-1987: Equal Partner in Kronfeld & Ribner, 2340 One Williams Center, Tulsa, OK. Practice limited to taxation.
July, 1984-January, 1985: Principal in Ribner & Associates, 1516 South Boston Ave., Tulsa, OK. Practice limited to taxation.
January,1982-July, 1984: Initially Associate, then Partner, in charge of Tax, at Blackstock, Joyce, Pollard, Blackstock and Montgomery, 515 South Main Mall. Tulsa, OK.
June,1979-January, 1982: Tax Associate, Hall Estill Hardwick Gable Collingsworth & Nelson, 4100 One Williams Center, Tulsa, OK.
October, 1978-June, 1979: Associate, Carter Ledyard & Milburn, Two Wall Street, New York
AV (Highest Possible) Martindale-Hubbell Peer- reviewed rating since 1985.
Reported Cases: Mcdermott v. Sentry Life Insurance Co., 2000 OK CIV APP 115, 15 P.3d 508, cert. den.; Patel v. OMH, 1999 OK 33, 987 P.2d 1185, cert. den.; James E. and Nancy Foy, 84 T.C. 50 (1985); Church By Mail, Inc., 48 T.C.M. 471(1984), P. Hall T.C. Memo 1984-349.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Adjunct Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law. Instructor for "Individual Income Tax" (4 Credits), Spring Term, 1981.
EDUCATION:
New York University School of Law, J.D., 1977; LL.M. (in Taxation), 1978. Lasker Scholar, 1978 (full-tuition merit scholarship).
Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences, B.A.., Magna Cum Laude, 1973.
