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

• 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