Our Attorneys
Leslie V. Batchelor, Vice President

                                         

Leslie V. Batchelor directs the firm’s litigation practice and manages a wide variety of redevelopment and financing matters.               Leslie's litigation practice focuses primarily on representing public entities and their officers and employees. She represents public trusts, defends taxpayer actions and other claims arising from public financing and public redevelopment activities, and has handled numerous commercial litigation and public law matters.

Her transactional practice encompasses public-private development projects of all types and sizes, from the construction of single-family homes to main street revitalization efforts and large-scale urban renewal projects. Working closely with government entities, private developers and other interested parties, she helps forge strategies to make difficult projects financially feasible, using tax increment financing, historic preservation tax credits, empowerment zone incentives, and other special incentives.               Leslie served as Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States for most of 2000. In that position, she had oversight responsibility for major civil litigation matters handled by the Civil Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Before that appointment, she served as Counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno for civil and environmental litigation and Native American issues.  From 1997 to 1998, she was Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division. She also clerked for the Honorable William J. Holloway, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.              Leslie received her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brown University (1988), and her master’s and law degrees from the University of Virginia (1990, 1993), where she was an instructor in philosophy and a teaching assistant in legal research and writing.               An active community volunteer, she serves on boards of directors for, and as an officer of, several organizations, most notably the Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation, Historical Preservation, Inc., the Oklahoma SAFEKIDS Coalition and the Oklahoma County Bar Association.

                  

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