In January of 2002 I enrolled in law school at the University of Tulsa College of Law.  In all honesty, my years in law enforcement and love of the law is what drove me to begin this journey.  I believe I was well prepared by my debate career in high school in the ability to research, formulate arguments, and defend a cause.  During my law school career, I knew that it was a lead pipe certainty that I would be a prosecutor.  I believed that because I could never figure out how was that attorneys could take money from people who they knew were guilty in what I thought was an effort to try to prove they were not.  After attending law school, I understood a lawyer, like a doctor, applies his trade for his client to achieve the end the client seeks.  If the client wants to sue somebody, it's the lawyer's duty to initiate the action.  If the client needs to be defended, it is the lawyers duty to defend.

One day in Constitutional Law class, it occurred to me that each of the great cases that had found their way to the Untied States Supreme Court did so as a result of zealous representation by lawyers who believed in a cause.  It occurred to me, the that many social changes occur as a result of one man with courage being willing to take a stand to affect change within the system.  It occurred to me that any time the government acts, people become either less free or more free.  Each of the cases we studied either contributed to the liberties held by citizens of the Republic, or it detracted from them.  Consider for a moment the Katz decision in which the supreme court recognized the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places.  That was the first case that recognized a reasonable expectation of privacy is constitutionally protected.  The Miranda decision requires the government advise a suspect of his right to silence and counsel before they begin an interrogation.  The Messiah decision prevents the state from using a confederate to make contact with an accused and question him when the police could not.  In each of these cases, there was an attorney that represented the government, and an attorney who represented the people.  In each case, the attorney that represented the people sought to make the citizens of the Republic more for easy.  In that moment of reflection, I determined that I wanted my legacy to be the citizens of this Republic would be more for a as a result of my practice, not less. 

In April, 2006, I passed the bar.  I then became a member of the bar for each Federal Court in the State of Oklahoma, and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals  After practicing with a friend for the balance of 2006, by January of 2007 I opened my own law firm, the Law Offices of John M. Dunn, PLLC.  Generally speaking, I practice criminal law, family law, a civil litigation.  I've never been afraid stand up to anybody .  If the cause is just, I'm willing to fight it.  It doesn't matter if I'm standing up to the district attorney's office, the State of Oklahoma, or the Federal Government, I represent my client tirelessly and with great zeal .  There are few things I enjoy more than standing up in court to represent my client. 

One of the things that gives me my greatest joy, is I can use my law office, and the practice of law, to make a better day for the citizens of the Republic and the citizens of Oklahoma.