Linda McGuire

About Linda

Linda McGuire was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Tulsa Memorial High School. She obtained a B.A. in Letters and graduated with High Honors from the University of Oklahoma. In 1990, she obtained her J.D. from the University of Oklahoma. After graduating from law school, she worked briefly as a family lawyer, and then became a Public Defender in the General Appeals Division of the Appellate Public Defender’s Office (now the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System) where she handled over thirty (30) appeals per year for indigent criminal defendants. In 1996, she went to work at the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for the Orders Division where she handled Writs of Mandamus, Prohibition and Habeas Corpus, appellate motions, misdemeanor, State, and juvenile appeals. In 1998, she left the Orders Division to serve as a Staff Attorney for the Honorable Charles Johnson of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, where for the next eight years, she handled all types of felony appeals, including capital murder and capital post-conviction. Desiring to expand her practice beyond the realm of criminal law, she joined a securities litigation firm in 2007, and then in 2008, she became General Counsel for a small Oklahoma oil and gas company where she handled all types of legal matters relating to business in general, including managing complex litigation for a number of years. In 2015, she joined her husband Kent in his practice - McGuire Law Firm - where they are mostly focused on insurance related legal disputes, but also handle all kinds of general civil matters. She has also continued to occasionally handle criminal appellate matters.

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Kent McGuire

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