Postic & Bates, P.C.

Postic & Bates, P.C. belongs at #6 among Oklahoma City trust attorneys because the firm has been writing estate plans in this market since Martin Postic, Jr. opened practice in 1980 and later settled the office at Shadowlake in south Oklahoma City. Julie Bates joined in 1987 and their son David Postic in 2016, so clients now work with a three-attorney family bench that covers living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, probate, trust administration, Medicaid and special-needs planning, and the real estate that often sits inside an Oklahoma estate. What separates the practice is how that knowledge is taught as well as billed: David is an adjunct professor of Wills & Trusts at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and regularly gives continuing-legal-education talks and writes for the Oklahoma Bar Journal. The firm appears in Oklahoma, Cleveland, Canadian, McClain, Grady, and Pottawatomie Counties and still starts most new matters with a free consultation. That mix of four-plus decades, a family office, and a classroom presence gives south-metro families a local place to put a trust in writing and understand what it actually does.