Lee Speirs

Background

About Lee Speirs

A native of Wamego, Kansas, Lee hails from the Land of Oz. With years of experience in the real estate industry, he has helped many clients smoothly navigate the complexities of transactions, planning, and litigation. His practice focuses on real estate, estate planning and probate, business and corporate law, banking, and litigation.Lee graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelors and masters degree and later earned his J.D. degree from Washburn University School of Law. While in law school, he interned with both the City of Manhattan and Fairbanks Law firm in Goodland, Kansas, gaining valuable experience in trust disputes, agricultural land foreclosures, various land use issues, and general municipal court functions. He also earned several scholarships, received several CALI awards, and graduated with Dean’s Honors.Over the course of his career, Lee has been involved in over a thousand real estate transactions, including: leasing apartments as a property manager, helping clients with purchase and sale transactions as a real estate agent, ensuring a smooth closing process as a title closing agent, researching land records and drafting title commitments as a title examiner, and resolving title issues and drafting various transaction-related documents as a real estate attorney.Lee assists clients in preparing, reviewing, filing and recording various documents such as purchase and sale contracts, promissory notes, mortgages, subordination agreements, deeds, easements, liens, rights of first refusal, corporate bylaws, operating agreements, last wills and testaments, powers of attorney, trust agreements, family settlement agreements, pleadings, motions, journal entries and more.Lee is also a litigator with experience in foreclosures, bankruptcies, trust disputes, and criminal matters. He has managed all aspects of casework, including pleadings, court appearances, pretrial motions, negotiation, and bench and jury trials.