Joseph Leon Email & Phone Number

General Counsel to Individuals and Small to Medium BusinessesREPRESENTATIVE MATTERS:• Represented graphic designer in negotiating sale to Target Corporation of medication packaging system • Represented product designer in negotiating a brand development contract with Isaac Mizrahi's brand agents• Represented manufacturer in successful asset purchase of manufacturing company out of bankruptcy court• Represented owners in litigating LLC dissolutions, including obtaining preliminary injunctions• Represent principals in residential real estate closings and commercial and residential leases

Senior Associate in Complex Commercial Litigation and Financial Restructuring GroupsREPRESENTATIVE MATTERS: • Engaged in various litigation over attachment, perfection and priority of security interests in numerous types of property, including investment paper, documents of title, chattel paper, and deposit accounts• Represented CMBS trustee in foreclosing purchase loan on 500 unit residential co-op• Represented landlords in bankruptcy court litigation involving assignment of shopping center leases• Defended Argentine subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes in breach of contract and theft of trade secret case• Supervised local counsel in defense of company being sued at once by attorneys general in 40 states• Defended hospital consortium against creditors seeking substantive consolidation of various debtor estates

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS:• Represented criminal defendants before Supreme Court and Kansas Court of Appeals, including perfecting record on appeal, preparing appellate strategy, briefing, and arguing the case.• Obtained published reversals that set precedent in the areas of prosecutorial misconduct, notices of appeal and other appellate procedure, sentencing and jury instructions.• Co-Authored annual surveys of criminal law published by the Kansas Bar Association• Authored monthly survey of criminal law developments distributed to all public defenders and subscribing attorneys in private practice

Law Clerk the Honorable H. Franklin Waters, Chief Judge for the Western District of Arkansas• Assisted chambers in conducting full civil and criminal trials• Lead drafter of more than a dozen published, cited opinions

Summer Clerk for Justice Lloyd Doggett (currently U.S. Representative from Austin, TX)

J.D.

•Juris Doctor, With Honors, 1993

B.A., Philosophy

•National Merit Scholar, 1984-88