Derryberry & Naifeh, LLP

Derryberry & Naifeh, LLP belongs at #8 among Oklahoma City trust attorneys because the firm has been at 4800 North Lincoln Boulevard since 1979 and can put tax, business, and probate counsel on the same estate. Estate-planning work is anchored by Don Nevard, a former general counsel of the Oklahoma Tax Commission, which matters when a plan has to account for a company, mineral rights, or investment real estate instead of a simple will. The office drafts revocable and irrevocable trusts, special-needs and charitable trusts, living wills, and business-succession documents, then stays with executors, trustees, and beneficiaries if the matter goes through probate. What separates the practice is that public-service pedigree—co-founder Larry Derryberry was a former Oklahoma attorney general—combined with a smaller-firm rule that lawyers return calls and walk clients through the file themselves. Families who need a trust that talks to a business or a tax problem can start that conversation with a free consultation rather than a tour of three different firms.