Practice areas: Personal Injury, Insurance Coverage, Medical Malpractice; view more
Licensed in Oklahoma since: 2000
Education: Oklahoma City University School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2013 - 2025 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2011 Call today:
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16362 Muirfield PlaceEdmond, OK 73013 Visit website
A pillar of leadership within his legal community, L. Ray Maples II leverages his 20-plus years of experience at his clients’ behest, helping them overcome their tenuous legal challenges so that they can look forward to their bright futures and leave their legal woes firmly in the past. The senior managing partner of Maples Injury Law in Edmond, Oklahoma, he serves residents throughout the surrounding region, as well as in the greater Oklahoma City area, in personal injury matters involving:
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Truck collisions
- Slip-and-falls/premises liability
- Medical malpractice
- Birth injuries
- Nursing home negligence and abuse
- Defective products
- Catastrophic injuries
Mr. Maples completed his undergraduate studies in 1993, graduating with his Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing from Valdosta State University. He later enrolled at the Oklahoma City University School of Law, where his legal foundations were strengthened through his active participation in myriad on-campus activities. He received his Juris Doctor in 2000, and in the same year, he obtained his license to practice law in Oklahoma.
Later on, Mr. Maples gained admission to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, the United States Courts of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.
A stalwart champion for his clients’ futures, Mr. Maples fights tooth and nail to give them every opportunity to resolve their cases with grace and poise, striving to get them the compensation they deserve so that their recovery won’t be hindered by financial struggles. For his many contributions, has been peer-review rated AV Preeminent* through Martindale-Hubbell, the organization’s highest rating. Furthermore, he has been inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum for accruing numerous million- and multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients.
Outside his law practice, Mr. Maples maintains close affiliations with myriad prominent legal organizations, including the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Oklahoma Association for Justice, the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice.
*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer-review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Insurance Coverage, Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff, Personal Injury - Products: PlaintiffFocus areas
Bad Faith Insurance, Birth Injury, Brain Injury, Insurance, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death
- 70% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
- 10% Insurance Coverage
- 10% Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff
- 10% Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2000, Oklahoma
Professional Webpage: https://www.mapleslawokc.com/ray-maples.html
Bar / Professional Activity
- Oklahoma State, 2000
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2000
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Oklahoma, 2000
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Ohio, 2000
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Oklahoma, 2000
- U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma, 2000
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Oklahoma, 2000
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Oklahoma, 2000
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Member
- American Association for Justice, Leaders Forum Member
- American Bar Association, Member
- American Association for Justice, Member
- Oklahoma Association for Justice, Member
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- Our firm has been blessed with handling several cases that were over seven figures and have recovered millions of dollars on behalf of our clients that are too numerous to put down but some of which can be seen on our website. Wren v. Kinzer Oklahoma County Case No. CJ-2010-3560 is a 2011 case, On or about the 16th day of June, 2009, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma, Plaintiff Jerry Lee Wren was traveling northbound on I-35 when Defendant Linda Michelle Kinzer, also traveling northbound on I-35, turned around to talk to her son in the back seat of her car, struck the rear-end of Plaintiff’s vehicle. Plaintiff had $29,033.13 in medical and it was Plaintiff's position that he needed a back surgery that had not happened as of August 30, 2011. Verdict for Plaintiff: $500,000.00, 2011
- $14,000,000 wrongful death settlement, 2025
- I was privileged to represent Ms. Betty Smith on behalf of her sister and obtained a $3,000,000 verdict against the following Defendants. In The District Court Of Pontotoc County State Of Oklahoma Betty Ann Smith, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Mary Jo Cushman, Deceased v. IHS Ballard Nursing Center, Inc. d/b/a Ballard Nursing Center; IHS Holdings, Inc.; IHS Management Consultants, Inc. and Bart Reed Defendants. Death of 81-year-old lady who died of sepsis, UTI, dehydration and acute on chronic renal failure unnecessarily. She went into Ballard for therapy and died a horrific death just 39 days later, 2014
Pro bono / Community Service
- Participated in Lawyers Against Hunger which was started by fellow attorney Noble McIntyre and helped families with a Thanksgiving meal, 2024
- Started the Maples, Nix & Diesselhorst Back Pack Drive to help inner city kids with school supplies etc. Maples, Nix & Diesselhorst and other generous donors provided hundred of school backpacks for kids, 2015
Educational Background
- Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, Bachelor of Arts, Major: Marketing, 1993
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Wrote the book, Don't Wreck Twice, in an effort to help Oklahomans in the event of an accident., Author, 2010
- Trial Lawyer represented his client to a successful resolution, Trial Lawyer, Boler v Security Health Care, LLC, 2014 OK 80 (US Supreme Court, Certiorari Denied, 135 S. Ct 2379 (2015)
- Trial Lawyer who represented his client to a very successful resolution, Trial Lawyer, Johnson v Convalescent Center of Grady County, LLC, 2014 OK 102
- Trial Lawyer who represented his client to a successful resolution, Trial Lawyer, Sauders v Mangum Nursing Ctr., LLC, 2016 OK CIV APP 53
- Trial Lawyer who represented his client to a successful resolution, Trial Lawyer, Maree v Neuwirth, 2016 OK 62
- I was privileged to write a book to provide families when faced with the decision to put their loved ones in a nursing home that they could use as an instructional guideline in choosing the correct home. This book is basically my musings on what one should look for before making that tough decision. I was fortunate to have a lot of input from people that I perceive as being very scholarly and who have the same heart for the elderly as my firm does., Restore the Dignity, 2012
Other Outstanding Achievements
- Our firm was privileged to have handled a case where the OK Court of Civil Appeals reversed a ruling by the lower Court that dismissed an owner of a nursing home for his direct actions based on a horrible law enacted by our legislature. The Court of Civil appeals reversed that ruling and the owner is still a defendant in the case. Lowell v. GLC-Mangum., 2015
- We obtained two favorable opinions regarding arbitration agreements from the OK Supreme Court at the end of last year and both were against Grace Living Center homes (Boler, 2014 OK 80; and Churchill, 2014 OK 102) – In those cases the OK Supreme Court has held (as in Bruner v. Timberlake et al., 2006 OK 90) that GLC was wholly intrastate and not preempted by the FAA – and that the beneficiaries’ claims were not derivative such that they could be bound by an agreement signed by the decedent. Great opinions on behalf of Oklahomans. Unfortunately GLCs are trying to get the US Supreme Court to look at this but hopefully they realize that this is nothing more than a state issue., 2014
Honors
- Super Lawyers - 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025
- Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2011
- Life Team Member, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale Hubbell
- A lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar advocates forum., Life Time Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 2009
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2013 - 2025
- Rising Stars: 2011
