900 Massachusetts Street
Suite 500 • PO Box 189
Lawrence, KS 66044-0189
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(785) 843-0811 phone
wsmith@stevensbrand.com
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Wesley F. Smith
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Bio
Mr. Smith is an attorney practicing in many areas, including banking and bankruptcy law, business reorganization, agriculture, and debtor and creditor's rights. He is a member os the U.S. District Court, District of Kansas and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He also maintains maintains a Martindale-Hubbell Rating of AV
- EDUCATION
- BAR ADMISSIONS
- AFFILIATIONS, ACTIVITIES & HONORS
- PUBLICATIONS
- Oklahoma State University (B.S. Agricultural Economics, 1991)
- University of Kansas School of Law (J.D. 1997)
- Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing
- Law Journal: Staff Member and Student Articles Editor, Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy
- Kansas and U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, 1998
- U.S. District Court, District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- Member:
- Douglas County Kansas Bar Association
- Kansas Bar Association
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section, President 2007-2008
- CLE Committee Chairperson 2008-present
- Outstanding Service Award - 2010
- Topeka Bar Association-Member 1998-present
- Nominating Committee 2005
- Vice President, Young Lawyer Division, 2000-2001
- Membership Chairman, Young Lawyer Division, 1998, 1999
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas
- Bench Bar Committee 2004-2007
- Topeka Area Bankruptcy Council-Member 1998-present
- American Inns of Court, Topeka Inn, Barrister 1999-2008
- Program Director 2002-2003
- Topeka Lawyers Club-Member
- Author of article entitled "Reorganizing" to Liquidate: Chapter 12 Anomaly, ABI Journal, October 2011
- Author of article entitled Life is a highway...even in bankruptcy, The Kansas Banker, June 2011
- Author of article entitled Courts Give Banks Protection
- Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Secured Transactions 2002-present
- Author of Bankruptcy and Construction Chapter in the Construction Law Handbook, Kansas Bar Association, 2006
- Co-Author of Chapter 12 (Farm Bankruptcy) of the Kansas Bankruptcy Handbook, Kansas Bar Association, 2009
- Speaker at various continuing legal education seminars on topics of bankruptcy, secured lending, and commercial litigation
- Author of article entitled The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Consumer Protection Act of 2005 - Seventeen Months of Reflection
- Author of article entitled "Cram Down" - Lenders Cram Back
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