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JOSEPH W. BOOTH is an attorney with the Law Offices of Joseph W. Booth, where he works as counsel and as an arbitrator. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Washburn School of Law, lecturing on collaborative law and financial aspects of divorce. Mr. Booth's practice includes family law, arbitration, adoption, surrogate parenting contracts and appellate practice. He lectures nationwide to private practice attorneys, as well as military lawyers on family law issues, including property valuations, child custody, child support and litigation. He has had 11 published appellate cases and has been involved in many others. Mr. Booth earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Ottawa University; his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Washburn School of Law; and his master's degree from St. Paul School of Theology. He is on drafting committees of the Uniform Laws Commission (formally NCCUSL) as the ABA liaison, drafting the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and developing a Uniform Statute on Parental Relocation. Mr. Booth is a member of the publications board of the American Bar Association Family Law Section; he published "A Guide for Assisting Military Families with the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA)," Family Law Quarterly (Summer 2009); and he is a contributing writer for the Matthew Bender Project for the Texas Family Law Handbook. He also is a contributing writer to two editions of the Administrative Manual for Nurse-Midwifery Services and provides legal advice and training to the ACNM and their members. Mr. Booth is a member of the Earl O'Connor Inns of Court, and a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is a member of the Kansas Bar Association and The Missouri Bar. Mr. Booth is the past chair of the Child Support Committee and is chair for the long-range planning for the American Bar Association Family Law Section. He is licensed to practice before the state and federal bars of Kansas and Missouri, as well as the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. HON. PATRICK D. McANANY graduated from Rockhurst University, with an B.A. degree in philosophy. He received his J.D. degree and LL.M. degree in business litigation both from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He joined Miller & O'Laughlin in Kansas City and then served in the office of general counsel for Mobil Oil Corporation, where he was assistant division attorney and antitrust counsel in New York City. Judge McAnany returned to Kansas in 1973 to join McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, where he was engaged in general civil and business litigation, and served on the firm's Board of Directors. He is licensed to practice before the Kansas Supreme Court; the Missouri Supreme Court; the United States District Courts for Kansas and for the Western District of Missouri; the Appellate Division, Second Department, New York; and the United States Courts of Appeals for the 10th and Federal circuits. Judge McAnany was appointed by Governor Bill Graves to the Johnson County District Court in 1995, where he handled civil litigation and served two terms as chief judge. While with the district court, he implemented the Trial Court Performance Standards, the Judicial Academy, the Changing Lives Through Literature reading program, and other innovative court and public outreach programs. He was appointed to the Kansas Court of Appeals by Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Judge McAnany taught business law at Rockhurst University and trial advocacy at the K.U. Law School. He served on the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission, and was a member of the executive committee of the Kansas District Judges Association and the judicial advisory board of the Law and Organizational Economics Center at the University of Kansas. He is a past president of the Lenexa Chamber of Commerce and the Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court, where he received the President's Award for the best program of the year. He was selected as one of the best judges in the United States by Lawdragon Magazine in 2006. He also received the Liberty Bell Award from the Topeka Bar Association in 2007. DENNIS OWENS is an attorney with DeWitt & Zeldin. Mr. Owens is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He has reviewed more than 450 books about law, the history of ideas, jurisprudence, legal history, the courts, and American history for the American Bar Association's Appellate Practice Journal, which he has edited since 1982. Mr. Owens won a case in the Supreme Court of the United States, Diaz-Albertini v. United States. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Mr. Owens has been named Best of the Bar by the Kansas City Business Journal and Lawyer of the Year by The Missouri Lawyers Weekly. He graduated from Rockhurst College; served in combat in Vietnam as a Marine Corps platoon leader; graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was editor in chief of the N.D. Journal of Legislation; and was law clerk to Chief Justice Robert E. Seiler of the Supreme Court of Missouri. DANIEL R. YOUNG is an attorney with Schlee Huber McMullen & Krause P.C., where his practice areas include: commercial litigation, appellate litigation, propane and natural gas litigation, and legal malpractice litigation. Mr. Young has practiced in Kansas City for more than twenty years. After a U.S. District Court clerkship, he joined Kansas City's Smith Gill Fisher & Butts as a propane and commercial litigator. In 1995, Mr. Young joined a national law firm, where he represented Fortune 500 companies in a variety of complex trial and appellate litigation, and served as leader of that firm's appellate practice group in Kansas City and as in-house ethics counsel for the firm. From 2004 to 2011, Mr. Young was a partner with another of Kansas City's leading litigation boutique firms. Mr. Young has successfully represented clients in trial and on appeal in a wide range of complex litigation, including work for the propane industry in personal injury, commercial and regulatory disputes, legal ethics and malpractice, class actions, corporate and securities litigation, bankruptcy, and redevelopment law. Mr. Young has also written and lectured on topics of appellate litigation and legal ethics. He has also served as vice-chair of the KCMBA appellate practice committee. Mr. Young also serves on the Board of Zoning Adjustment for Gladstone, Missouri on a volunteer basis. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Missouri- Columbia School of Law. Mr. Young is a member of the The Missouri Bar and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.
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