Position: Member

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Admitted: Oklahoma, 1983

Law School: University of Tulsa, B.S.B.A., 1977

College: University of Oklahoma, J.D., 1983

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Practice Areas: Plaintiff Personal Injury; Civil Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Personal Injury; Nursing Home Negligence; Products Liability; Mediation; Business Torts; Construction Litigation; Business Litigation; Contract Litigation; Truck Accidents

Additional Information: See: Jerry L. Hamlin and Freda J. Hamlin v. Forest Hills Heath Care, LLC, AHS Southcrest Hospital, LLC and Midwest Geriatric Management, LLC Ted Sherwood graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1983. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Tulsa (BSBA '77). Ted is president of the Sherwood & McCormick Law Firm, Tulsa, Oklahoma and his practice is primarily in the area of complex litigation which includes business, construction, products liability and nursing home/medical negligence. Ted has achieved the highest rating for legal ability in Martindale-Hubbell. He has served as president (1996) and on the Board of the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association (1988-1989, 1991—); Member of the Year (2004); appointed by Governor Brad Henry to Select Committee on Medical Malpractice Reform (2003); Board of Areawide Agency on Aging of Oklahoma County (1997); Board of Tulsa Senior Services (1998-2001); recognized in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Ted serves as president of the Vintage Housing Board (2003—), the affordable housing arm of LIFE Senior Services. Ted has also served as president and on the Board of Trustees for All Souls Unitarian Church. Ted is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. There are currently approximately 5,500 members in the United States and Canada. Ted has extensive jury trial experience in cases involving professional negligence and personal injury. He has given presentations at numerous CLE seminars on topics such as evidence, trial practice, and personal injury. He has authored four published articles on the following topics: nursing home negligence; presentation of medical thermography evidence; cross-examination of economists, and the duty to supplement discovery responses. Ted Sherwood has presented the following papers or spoken at seminars for trial lawyers and legal assistants: "A Century of Trial Basics: Direct Examination" (OBA/MCLE, 2007); "Cross Examination of Experts: Handling the Talent" (OBA Annual Meeting, 2007); "Top Guns Face Off: Trying an Auto Accident Case" (OBA/MCLE, 2005); "Nursing Home Negligence in Oklahoma: Advanced Topics for Plaintiffs and Defendants" (OBA/CLE, OTLA, 2007); "Medical Negligence Update: Â Statutory Changes and Proposals, Nursing Homes Update" (OBA, 2003); "Nursing Home Litigation from Both Sides, The Latest Tips, Tricks, and Techniques in Legal Arguments from the Plaintiff's Perspective" (OTLA, 2003); "A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Nursing Home Law, Pressure Ulcer Cases" (OBA, 2001); "Civil Trial Practice: Direct and Cross-Examination of Lay Witnesses, (OBA 1998); "Nursing Home Negligence Update," (OTLA, 1997); "Nursing Home Negligence: Handling the Fall/Failure to Restrain Case," (OTLA/OBA 1994); "Oklahoma Evidence Code Update: The Bases for the Opinion of Experts"; "How Liberally Should 2703 be Read?" (OBA 1992); "Impeachment of Witnesses," (OU 1990 and Garvin County Bar Association, Second Annual Bench & Bar Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 1991); "Evidence: How to Make the Rules Work for You," (OTLA and OBA 1991); Impeachment of Witnesses (OU 1991); "Nursing Home Negligence: Liability for Warehousing the Aged," (OTLA/OU 1991); and "Handling an Auto Accident Case," (OBA 1991); "Products Liability Update," with Kenny Cole (OTLA Advanced Personal Injury Seminar 1990): "The Team Approach to Discovery and Trial Preparation," with Debra Hobbs (OU 1990); "Proving Injury, Including Soft Tissue Injury," (OBA 1990); "Pre-Trial to Trial - A Team Approach," (OTLA and the Central Oklahoma Association of Legal Assistants 1990); "Handling Car Wreck Cases: The Importance of Being First," (OBA 1989) (paper also presented at the 28th Annual Bridge-the-Gap Seminar OBA-Young Lawyers Division 1989), and "Settlement Techniques: Settlement Conferences, Arbitration Hearings and Mini-Trials," (Oklahoma College of Advocacy 1987). Ted has written the following articles which have been published: "Using Focus Groups to Improve Trial Presentations: A Cost Effective Approach," Oklahoma Bar Journal 79 OBAJ 547 (2007); "Using State and Federal Regulations at Trial: Negligence Per Se and the Standard of Care" with Ruben J. Krisztal; "Case Assessment: Theories, Evidence & Experts" (2003); "Nursing Home Negligence: Liability for Warehousing of the Aged" with Esther Houser, Oklahoma Bar Journal, 65 OBAJ 3579 (1994); "The Duty to Supplement Discovery Responses," (Newsletter, 1991); "Cross-Examination of Defense Economists," (Newsletter, 1987) and "Thermography: Successful Application of the Trial of Soft Tissue Cases," (Newsletter, 1986).