Gale Allison is a certified mediator.  Her mediation practice spans Business mediation including contracts, vendors, employee, customer, operational and organizational disputes, Estate, Trust, Divorce, and other Family mediation including Elder and Adult Care, and more.

Retired from the practice of law, her four decades of experience as an Estate and Tax lawyer, and Estate and Trust litigator enhances her abilities as a mediator. Her vast experience includes knowledge of inheritance, business ownership and management, nonprofits, business succession, estates, wills, and trusts, property and title issues, adult and elder caregiver concerns, tax allocations, divorce, separation of assets, and civil litigation.

Ms. Allison's former law practice was focused on matters of Estates, Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives, Prenuptial Contracts, Estate and Business Succession Planning, Charitable Planning, Trust and Estate Administration, Estate-Related Tax Matters, and settling disputes of those practice areas. Through litigation and mediation, Ms. Allison previously represented Trustees and Personal Representatives against Beneficiary claims as well as Beneficiaries in their claims against Trustees and Personal Representatives. She has planned estates valued from $25,000 to $200,000,000.

Early in her career she was an Assistant General Counsel for Litigation for HEW (now the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration) and an Estate and Gift Tax Attorney for the IRS before entering private practice. As an Adjunct Professor, she taught estate tax law at Northeastern State University and jurisprudence at the University of Tennessee. She was a partner in a law firm in Tennessee for many years before moving to Oklahoma where she founded The Allison Firm, PLLC in 1996. In 2017, she merged her practice with Schaffer Herring, PLLC, becoming a Director and Attorney. She retired to pursue mediation in 2020.

Involved in many community and charitable endeavors, Ms. Allison volunteers for veterans’ causes and is a Docent for Tulsa’s historic The Church studio that houses Leon Russell's archives and memorabilia. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Purview (life care management). Ms. Allison blogs and writes articles and materials in her areas of expertise. She accepts invitations to speak nationwide on every facet of her practice areas for professional continuing education, business groups, charities, and general public education.