Travis Pickens has been a civil litigation lawyer for over twenty-eight years in private practice. His practice began in 1984 with Musser & Bunch, P.C. in Oklahoma City. He was named a Director in 1989. He later established his own firm as a solo practitioner. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Language Arts (English) with Special Distinction in 1980, and a Juris Doctor degree with Distinction in 1984, from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to general civil litigation, Travis’ areas of practice include family law (collaborative), professional ethics and essential estate planning. He has recently completed training in family law mediation. He maintains the Martindale Hubbell highest Preeminent Attorney Recognition (AV) rating for skills and ethics based on professional peer reviews.

From August 2009 to January 2015, Travis served as Ethics Counsel for the Oklahoma Bar Association. In this position he guided lawyers as to ethics issues and compliance with the Oklahoma Rules of Professional Conduct, presented programs for lawyers’ and paralegals’ continuing legal education, monitored and trained Diversion Program participants, prepared articles on ethics and professionalism for seminars and the Oklahoma Bar Journal and served as an OBA liaison to the OBA’s Professionalism, Lawyers Helping Lawyers Committees, as well as the Legal Ethics Advisory Panel.