Wirth Law Office

Focus and practice areas

Wirth Law Office is a Tulsa firm that organizes its work around a handful of everyday legal needs. The two main areas are criminal defense and family law, and both come up across the firm's pages. On the criminal side, the site lists DUI and DWI cases along with expungements. On the family side, it points to divorce, child custody, and child support.

The firm also handles estate matters, including probate, plus business law and tribal law. For a few other needs, the approach is different. The site says the firm takes on personal injury, bankruptcy, and workers' compensation matters through affiliations with other firms. That is a useful thing to state plainly. As a reviewer, I read it as a sign the firm keeps its own core work in view rather than claiming every field at once.

How the team is built

James M. Wirth founded the firm on January 1, 2010, after time at another Tulsa firm. He was admitted to the Oklahoma bar on September 28, 2004, and earned his law degree at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He was born in Tulsa in December 1978 and describes himself as a lifelong Oklahoman.

Steve Kendall serves as managing attorney. The firm credits him with more than 30 years of work in criminal defense and family law. A founder and a long-serving managing attorney give the roster a clear shape at the top.

The wider roster

Several staff attorneys fill out the team, and many share the same law school. Aaron Grubb works from Tahlequah on criminal defense and family law in Cherokee County, and he graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law. Brian Carroll focuses on criminal defense and studied there too. Bryan Schell handles criminal defense and family law, again with a University of Tulsa degree. Keith J. Flinn II covers criminal defense and family law, including divorce, custody, and guardianship, and studied at the same school.

Brian Carter adds construction law to his criminal defense and family law work. He studied at the University of Tulsa College of Law after undergraduate work at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Joseph Fetterman practices criminal defense and family law across Oklahoma County from Oklahoma City, and he is a graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law. Dillan Savage works from Oklahoma City on criminal defense and family law. Robert "Rob" Henderson practices in Muskogee on the same two areas, with more than seven years of experience.

The pattern is easy to read. Criminal defense and family law show up in almost every attorney bio, so the firm's stated focus and its people match. A client with one of those two needs would find more than one lawyer set up to take it.

Where the firm reaches

The main office sits in Tulsa's Arena District, a headquarters the firm acquired in 2017. During its first decade, the firm opened locations beyond Tulsa as well.

Those added offices are in Bartlesville, Okmulgee, Wagoner, Muskogee, Tahlequah, Stillwater, and Oklahoma City. In my opinion, the spread is worth noting because it lines up with where several named attorneys already work. A client in Muskogee, Tahlequah, or Oklahoma City can point to a local face rather than a distant one. The map and the roster tell the same story.

What the record shows on admissions

The firm describes a fairly wide set of court admissions across its attorneys. According to the firm, its lawyers are admitted in Oklahoma, and in some cases in Kansas, New Mexico, and California state courts. The site also lists admissions in various tribal courts.

On the federal side, the firm points to the Northern, Eastern, and Western District courts of Oklahoma, along with the United States Supreme Court. Tribal law also appears as one of the firm's stated practice areas, which fits the tribal court admissions it describes. That mix reads as a practice grounded in Oklahoma while keeping a few doors open beyond the state.

How a prospective client might read it

The picture here is consistent. A founder set up the office in 2010, a managing attorney with decades of work helps run it, and a group of staff attorneys carry criminal defense and family law across the state.

The firm is clear about what it keeps in house and what it refers out through other firms. It gives law schools for most of its named attorneys and states admission details for its founder. For someone weighing a criminal defense or family law matter in the Tulsa area, or in one of the satellite towns, that is a reasonable base of facts to start from.