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Pepper DeVaughn

Proven Verdicts
Oklahoma City, OK

About Pepper DeVaughn

Pepper DeVaughn is a Partner at Parrish DeVaughn Injury Lawyers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with decades of personal injury experience.

DeVaughn earned his J.D. from the University of Tulsa College of Law and his B.S. from Oklahoma State University. He is admitted to practice in Oklahoma, before the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma.

His recognitions include Super Lawyers (2024-2025), The National Trial Lawyers (2014, 2021-2023, 2025), America's Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys (2021-2025), America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators (2017-2021), Lawyers of Distinction (2017-2023), and Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2009, 2011, 2013-2014).

DeVaughn is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Oklahoma Association for Justice, and serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$16 millionSettlement

Pepper DeVaughn served as co-counsel for Roger Ediger, an Enid attorney and former farmer who blew the whistle on Gold Banc Corporation for inflating interest rates on federally guaranteed agricultural loans, producing a $16 million settlement that stood as the largest False Claims Act recovery in the Western District of Oklahoma at the time.

U.S. District Court, W.D. Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) · 2004Read the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Tulsa College of Law
B.S.
Oklahoma State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Oklahoma
State Bar of U.S. Supreme Court
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma
American Association for Justice
Oklahoma Association for Justice
Oklahoma Academy for State Goals (Board of Directors, Executive Committee)

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2024-2025)
The National Trial Lawyers (2014, 2021-2023, 2025)
America's Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys (2021-2025)
America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators (2017-2021)
Lawyers of Distinction (2017-2023)
Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2009, 2011, 2013-2014)

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Carr & Carr Injury Attorneys
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$2 million · $2 Million Verdict Against Church That Hid Daycare Worker's Abuse History
Fulmer Sill
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Hicks Law Firm
Hicks Law Firm
$90,125,000 judgment ($90,000,000 against the former officer under Section 1983 plus $125,000 against the City of Moore after the Governmental Tort Claims Act cap; $126,000,000 jury verdict) · She Was 18 and Driving to Take the ACT. An Off-Duty Moore Police Sergeant Doing Nearly 100 in a 50 Hit Her Broadside. A Federal Jury Returned $126 Million, and Oklahoma Law Let $90,125,000 of It Stand.
Laird Hammons Laird
Laird Hammons Laird
$90,125,000 judgment ($90,000,000 against the former officer under Section 1983 plus $125,000 against the City of Moore after the Governmental Tort Claims Act cap; $126,000,000 jury verdict) · She Was 18 and Driving to Take the ACT. An Off-Duty Moore Police Sergeant Doing Nearly 100 in a 50 Hit Her Broadside. A Federal Jury Returned $126 Million, and Oklahoma Law Let $90,125,000 of It Stand.
Abel Law Firm
Abel Law Firm
$15 million · Oklahoma Supreme Court Restores Abel Law Firm's $15 Million Crane Verdict and Strikes the State's Damages Cap