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E-Mail rhughey@adamsjones.com Areas of Practice Real Estate, Business Planning and Transactions, Estate and Trust Planning and Administration Education Benedictine College (B.A.1965)University of Kansas (J.D. 1968) Legal Experience Roger Hughey’s law practice focuses on representing lenders and other businesses in real estate transactions and enforcement. He has extensive experience in legal design and document drafting for commercial loans and residential and manufactured home loan programs. He negotiates, prepares and closes purchase contracts and leases for commercial and industrial transactions. He is responsible for condominiums, townhouse developments and planned unit developments, advising owners’ associations and developers and creating, modifying, and terminating regimes for changing times. He often serves as local counsel on nationwide loan programs and complex multi-state transactions involving over two billion dollars in the past three years. He represents lenders in workouts, bankruptcies and foreclosures of hotels, apartments, office, retail, manufacturing and environmentally-contaminated properties and a large amusement park. He advises and represents business clients (including development, redevelopment, manufacturing, construction, finance, agriculture and retail) on matters ranging from entity selection through mergers and acquisitions, vendor and customer contracts and disputes, to management transitions - in some instances to the third generation. Roger has been active with estate clients throughout his career. He counsels clients and prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and advance directives for small through large estates. He handles trust and probate administration, serving as trustee of an 8 million dollar personal trust. He has also served as an expert witness and consultant to other lawyers in real estate, probate, and business disputes. He is rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell, has been designated a "Kansas Super Lawyer" in Real Estate Law, is listed in Best Lawyers in America in Real Estate and is recognized in "Band 1" by Chambers USA. He is the 2010 recipient of the Howard C. Kline Distinguished Service Award, given by the Wichita Bar Association to one member per year "who has through the years exemplified integrity, professionalism and service to the Bar, whose qualifications are undeniably exemplary and whose services are widely acclaimed as having made significant contributions to the honor and practice of the law." Publications Condominium Chapter Author, Kansas Bar Association Real Estate Practice and Procedure Handbook (2009) Kansas Chapter Author, National Mortgage Summary, American College of Mortgage Attorneys (2003, 2005, 2007) Mortgage Chapter Co-Author, Kansas Bar Association Real Estate Practice and Procedure Handbook (1999) OrganizationsWichita Bar Association (President, 1995-96;
Secretary-Treasurer, 1992-93; Chair, Real Estate Practice Committee, 2004-05;
Ethics Committee, 2010-) Seminar Presentations Condominiums (Wichita Bar Association)
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