Gale Allison

Attorney/Director and Estate, Elder care & Family Mediator Gale Allison has four decades of estate, business and tax experience as an estate and trust lawyer. She is also an attorney mediator. Her law and mediation practices focus entirely on matters of probate and estate administration, estate taxes, asset protection, elder law issues, estate and business succession planning and estate litigation. Practicing law in Tulsa Oklahoma, she is also available to mediate nationwide. Her dispute mediation certifications (Mediating the Litigated Case; Elder Care Mediation) are from Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution:. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Georgia, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Tennessee, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from Emory University. She is admitted to the bar in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Georgia. In addition to all courts in those three states, Ms. Allison is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 10th Circuit Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. She served as an Assistant General Counsel for Litigation for the federal government and an Estate and Gift Tax Attorney for the IRS before entering private practice. As an Adjunct Professor, she taught estate tax law at Northeastern State University and jurisprudence at the University of Tennessee. She practiced estate law as a partner in two large law firms before moving to Oklahoma and founding The Allison Firm, PLLC in 1996. She limited that boutique firm’s practice to matters of estates, wills, trusts, asset protection, estate and business succession planning, estate-related tax matters, and litigating or settling disputes in these practice areas. In 2017, she merged her law practice into Schaffer Herring, PLLC, where she serves as an Attorney/Director. At that time, she also merged her mediation practice into DRC (Dispute Resolution Consultants) where she is an attorney / mediator. Ms. Allison is a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association, the Oklahoma Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Tennessee Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Her American, Oklahoma and Tulsa Bar memberships include the Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation Sections of each and she is a past chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section. Additionally, she is a member of the Estate Planning Forum of Tulsa and Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association. Active in many community and charitable groups, she serves on the St. John Health System Institutional Review Board and the Advisory Board of Purview (life care management). A strong supporter of veterans’ causes, Gale Allison speaks nationwide on every facet of estate, trust, and related tax and family matters to continuing education professionals, business groups and for general public education. View Gale Allison's profile Awards and Honors Honors AV-Rated Pre-eminent Lawyer, Martindale-Hubbell America's Top 100 Attorneys

• Attorney / Director ,Schaffer Herring PLLC
• Attorney / Mediator, DIspute Resolution Consultants

• The Allison Firm, PLLC, Founder, Managing Attorney, 1996 - 2017

• Adjunct Professor, Estate Planning, Northeastern State University
• Adjunct Professor, Jurisprudence, University of Tennessee
• Estate and Business Succession Planning, Estate Tax Law Changes, National Business Institute/NBI and Tulsa University Family Owned Business Institute/FOBI
• Attorney Continuing Legal Education (CLEs), Tulsa Bar, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Georgia Bar Associations, Tax Practitioners of Chattanooga, Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers Association, Estate Tax Attorneys of the Internal Revenue Service, Duke University Estate Planning Conference
• Certified Public Accountant Continuing Professional Education/CPEs, Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants/OSCPAs, Tulsa Chapter of OSCPA
• Attorney, CPA and Financial Planner Continuing Education Units/CEUs (Tulsa Estate Planning Forum, Oklahoma City Estate Planning Council, Chattanooga Estate Planning Council, Merrill Lynch)
• Planned Giving, American Cancer Society
• Estate Planning, St. Francis Health Systems, St. John Health Systems, monthly free seminars and public education workshops for lay people
• Estate Planning, Tulsa Library Trust

• Member, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Commission, Oklahoma Bar Association
• Member, Purview Advisory Board
• Member, St John's Health System Institutional Review Board
• Past-Chair, Oklahoma Bar Association Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section
• Past Chair, Oklahoma Bar Association Lawyer Referral Committee
• Past Member, Advisory Board, University of Tulsa Genave King Rogers Business Law Center
• Past Member, Planned Giving Advisory Committee, Tulsa Library Trust
• Past Director, Volunteers of America of Oklahoma
• Past Member, St. John Medical Center Foundation Community Liaison Board
• Past President, Oklahoma Lung Association
• Ancillary Businesses
• Schaffer Herring, PLLC, Director and Attorney
• Dispute Resolution Consultants, Estate, Elder & Family Mediator

• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Georgia
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. Supreme Court

• Tulsa County Bar Association (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Estate Planning & Probate, Litigation Sections)
• Oklahoma Bar Association (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Estate Planning & Probate, Litigation, Mandatory Continuing Education Committee Sections)
• American Bar Association (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Estate Planning & Probate, Litigation, Solo & Small Firms, Senior Lawyers Sections)
• Tennessee Bar Association
• State Bar of Georgia
• Estate Planning Forum of Tulsa
• Tulsa Title & Probate Lawyers Association
• Tulsa County Bar Association, Lawyer Referral Committee (Past chair)
• Oklahoma Bar Association, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section (Past chair)