Beverly K. Smith
Overview
Beverly Smith helps individuals, families, fiduciaries, and businesses navigate estate planning, trust administration, and complex transactions in a manner that not only best protect their assets but also achieves specific goals through confident planning for the future.
A significant portion of Beverly’s practice focuses on estate planning, trust administration, probate, and guardianship matters. She advises high-net-worth individuals, families, executors, and trustees on strategies to preserve and transfer wealth, administer trusts, and address probate-related issues. By providing practical, personalized guidance, she helps clients protect their legacies and navigate important family and fiduciary responsibilities.
Beverly also maintains an active corporate transactions practice, representing clients across a variety of industries in business and transactional matters. Her experience includes advising trust, hospitality, utility, telecommunications, and publicly held companies on strategic opportunities, operational matters, and transactions designed to support long-term growth and success.
Commercial real estate is another key component of Beverly’s practice. She represents lessors, lessees, developers, and business owners in leasing, land development, and real estate transactions. Her experience spans a broad range of industries, including energy, telecommunications, aviation, ranching, and mining, and includes nearly a decade of work involving real estate acquisitions throughout Oklahoma for a global corporation.
Credentials
Education
- University of Tulsa College of Law, 1987 (J.D.), with honors
- The University of Oklahoma, 1970 (B.A.)
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1992
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, 1988
- University of Tulsa, Beverly K. Smith Endowed Scholarship in Law, Benefactor
- University of Tulsa College of Law, Dean’s Advisory Board, Board Member
- Trinity Woods Tulsa Retirement Community, Board Member
- Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Administrative Board; Board of Trustees
- Tulsa Town Hall, Board of Directors
- The University of Tulsa College of Law, Alumni Association, Former President
- Chi Omega, Woman of the Year, 2019
- University of Tulsa College of Law, Hall of Fame, 2019
- Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2018-2026
- Lawyer of the Year, Real Estate Law, 2021
- Tulsa County Bar Association
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Tulsa Title & Probate Lawyers Association, Former President