Lai & Turner Law Firm PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Ten practice areas sit on the menu at this Oklahoma City firm, and they cluster around the things that happen to people and small businesses. Criminal defense, family law, immigration, estate planning and personal injury lead the list. Business and employment law, civil litigation, contract law, real estate, and probate and trust administration fill out the rest.

The criminal defense side covers misdemeanors and felonies. Named categories include assault, domestic violence, drug crimes, DUI and DWI, and expungement. Expungement work is its own animal: it deals with a record that already exists, and the goal is sealing or clearing it rather than contesting a live charge.

Family law here runs to adoption, child custody, divorce, guardianship, paternity, modifications, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. The inclusion of modifications matters in practice. Custody and support orders in Oklahoma can be revisited when circumstances change, so a family client may come back years after the original decree.

Immigration and the cross-border work

The immigration practice handles visas, green cards, citizenship, asylum and deportation defense. Those five cover both sides of the system: the applications that go to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the removal cases heard by immigration judges under the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Asylum in particular can start affirmatively with an application and end up in front of a judge if it is referred.

How the team is built

Seven attorneys are named on the site, plus paralegals and support staff. Jimmy Lai and Braden Turner founded the firm in 2022. Lai carries the title of Chief Executive Officer and Turner is a partner and Director of Criminal Defense.

Lai's route into law took a wide path. He had his K-12 education across Taiwan, the United States, Japan, Germany and England. He took an undergraduate degree in marketing at the University of Central Oklahoma, then a joint JD/MBA at the University of Oklahoma in 2021. He is licensed to practice in the Chickasaw Nation, which puts tribal court work inside the firm's reach.

Turner is a seventh-generation Oklahoman. He was co-valedictorian at his high school in southern Oklahoma and graduated with distinction from the University of Oklahoma in 2016, with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in French Language Studies. He finished at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2020 and is admitted to the Bar in several states.

The rest of the roster

Eric Strocen is Director of Family Law and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. During law school he was a Teaching Assistant and a member of the University of Oklahoma Rugby Club.

Kassandra Quintela's practice covers family law, immigration law and estate planning, working with individuals and families. Devin Doutaz focuses on family law and does community service work. Two attorneys on family law and a third splitting time there tells you where a good share of the caseload lands.

Alicia McLean is an Associate Attorney and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Oklahoma. She spent close to two decades as a psychologist, professor and researcher, alongside criminal defense advocacy. In my opinion that background is worth a second look for anyone whose case turns on competency, mental health history or expert testimony, since those questions come up often in criminal and custody matters.

Oguz "OZ" Erzincan handles immigration and is admitted to the State Bar of California and the Istanbul Bar Association. He represents families, entrepreneurs and professionals before the U.S. immigration system, and he has worked at U.S. immigration law firms before. Immigration practice is federal, so an attorney admitted in one state can appear for clients nationwide.

Where the firm reaches

Three offices carry the firm's name: Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Seattle. The Oklahoma City office is the main one. The site also names Edmond, Norman, Moore and Stillwater as communities the firm covers, all within reach of the central Oklahoma corridor.

Those four towns sit in three different counties, which affects how a case moves. District court practice in Oklahoma runs county by county, with local scheduling habits and judges. A firm working across Cleveland, Oklahoma and Payne counties is filing in courthouses with different rhythms.

The Seattle office adds a second state to the map. Washington has its own bar, its own family code and its own criminal statutes, so that office covers different ground from the Oklahoma work. The immigration practice is the piece that travels most easily between the two, since the governing law is the same everywhere.

What the record shows

The firm is four years old as of 2026. That is young for a ten-practice-area operation, and it explains something about the hiring pattern: directors named for criminal defense and family law, an immigration attorney with foreign bar admission, an associate with a psychology career behind her. The firm built out by bringing in people who already had a field.

Lai and Turner both came through the University of Oklahoma College of Law within a year of each other, in 2020 and 2021. Strocen is a graduate of the same school. As a reviewer, I read that shared training as a practical thing: three of the named attorneys learned Oklahoma procedure in the same classrooms, from the same faculty.

The firm offers free case evaluations and answers calls at all hours. Both are operational details, and they say something about intake. A criminal arrest or a protective order does not wait for business hours, and those are two of the areas the firm names.

The firm keeps profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. A video channel for a firm this size suggests some effort at public explanation of legal process, which is one of the more useful things a small firm can do with its own time. The site does not state bar admission years for any of the attorneys, and law schools are not listed for Quintela, McLean, Erzincan or Doutaz.

Contact and listing details

The formal listing name is Lai & Turner Law Firm PLLC. The Oklahoma City street address is 2000 N Classen Blvd. This gives the city office a specific location beyond the broader service-area information and distinguishes it from the firm's Tulsa and Seattle offices. For directory users, the legal name also identifies the entity attached to the address rather than a shortened trade name.

The record provides one telephone number, (405) 251-7155, along with the firm's website at https://www.laiturnerlaw.com/. These details give prospective clients separate routes for telephone and online contact. They also provide a clear reference point for opposing counsel or other professionals who need to confirm which Lai & Turner entity appears in the directory.

Further details on individual practice

Braden Turner's listed practice focus includes probate as well as criminal defense. Probate is a distinct addition to his department leadership role because it places him within the firm's work after a death, when the administration of an estate may require court proceedings. The record also describes Turner as conversational in Spanish and French. That language ability is separate from his academic minor in French Language Studies and may help during initial communication with some clients.

The attorney record identifies Kassandra Quintela as a 2022 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. That graduation year places her legal education shortly after Turner's 2020 degree and Lai's 2021 JD/MBA. Her attorney profile lists family law as a practice focus, while her biography also assigns her work with individuals and families on immigration and estate planning matters.

Jimmy Lai's individual practice focus is broader than his executive title indicates. His profile assigns him immigration law, criminal defense, estate planning, family law, personal injury, and real estate law. This places one founder across both dispute work and planning matters. It also connects his role to client files that may cross practice boundaries, such as a family matter with an immigration issue or an estate plan that includes real property.

How the attorney assignments read

The individual profiles provide a second layer of information beyond the firm's practice menu. Turner has a defined criminal defense leadership role and a probate focus, while Lai has six stated areas. Quintela's record combines a stated family law focus with work in immigration and estate planning. These assignments show which named attorneys are associated with particular types of matters, even where the directory record does not describe staffing for a specific case.