Area of Practice

Mr. Stump is an attorney with over 27 years of experience in a practice limited exclusively to immigration law. His practice focuses on employment based immigration law, complex deportation, federal court litigation, and family immigration matters. He maintains offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

Mr. Stump is National Second Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee governing the 11,500 member American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is the only Oklahoman attorney ever elected to that position. He has been listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers since 1996, and is listed in “Best Lawyers in America” for immigration law. Mr. Stump was recently recognized in Oklahoma Magazine as one of the Top 50 Super Lawyers in Oklahoma and is listed in Who’s Who of International Corporate Immigration Attorneys. He has co-authored over 20 books on immigration law and spoken at more than 75 national and international conferences on immigration law. He frequently serves in an advisory capacity on legislative efforts to draft new immigration laws.

Mr. Stump is the former General Counsel for the Oklahoma State Council for Human Resource Management.

LEGAL ABILITY RATING

Mr. Stump has been afforded an AV Rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. The legal ability ratings in Martindale-Hubbell are A (From very high to preeminent), B (from high to very high), C (from fair to high) or no rating at all.

EDUCATION

Juris Doctor, Oklahoma City University School of Law, 1982.