Greg T. Metcalfe

Greg Metcalfe comes to GableGotwals with a wealth of state and federal litigation experience earned during eight years as an Assistant Attorney General with the Oklahoma Office of Attorney General.

Greg served as lead counsel for the state in numerous high-profile cases including contentious litigation involving Oklahoma’s political party system, initiative petition laws, lethal injection protocol, and Open Records Act.

During his tenure with the Attorney General, Greg represented the State against the State of Arkansas in an original action before the United States Supreme Court; argued appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; and participated in federal jury trials, bench trials and hearings. Greg also provided legal representation to the Governor, legislators, numerous agencies, boards and commissions.

Greg has handled hundreds of civil lawsuits and appeals involving a variety of diverse issues including contract disputes, civil rights claims, employment disputes, and tort claims. Because of his vast civil appellate experience, Greg was named as the Attorney General’s civil appeals coordinator where he reviewed all civil matters and advised the Attorney General prior to the agency filing any civil appeals. Greg also established a moot court program to prepare attorneys who were to argue cases on appeal and consulted with other Assistant Attorneys General on brief writing to improve the consistency of the state’s civil appeals practice.  Greg was also awarded a Supreme Court Fellowship with the National Association of Attorneys General.  He spent three months in Washington, D.C., engaged in an intensive study of Supreme Court practice and general appellate practice.

Greg has also developed some expertise regarding discovery of electronic information.  He began presenting CLE courses on the subject in 2004.  Since 2009, Greg has served (and continues to serve) as an e-discovery instructor for the National Association of Attorneys General.  In this capacity, he travels to offices of attorney generals throughout the country to teach litigators about e-discovery.  In addition to handling e-discovery issues for the Oklahoma Office of Attorney General, Greg also served as e-discovery team lead for a litigation team representing 36 plaintiff states against a national pharmaceutical company. Greg is a member of the Sedona Conference working group on electronic document retention and production.

Most recently, Greg served as Director of the Attorney General's Patient Abuse and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. He supervised the investigation and prosecution of Medicaid provider fraud and the abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of vulnerable patients in long-term care facilities throughout the state. Greg was also responsible for the Unit’s representation of the state in numerous qui tam cases filed under Oklahoma’s Medicaid False Claims Act, many of which were joint actions with the federal government and other state governments.

Greg is admitted to practice in all Oklahoma state courts; the United States Supreme Court; the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; and the United States District Court for the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma.